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| Titre : | God, Revelation and Authority. Vol I: God How Speaks and Shows - Preliminary Considerations |
| Auteurs : | Carl F. H. Henry, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | Waco [USA] : Word Books, 1976 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-87680-477-3 |
| Format : | 438 p. |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Résumé : |
Carl Henry says, "Evangelical theology is heretical if it is only creative and unworthy if it is only repetitious. That it can be freshly relevant for each new generation of persons and problems is a continuing asset.” In this four-volume "exposition of evangelical theism” the founding editor of Christianity Today not only expounds the historic Christian faith but solidly confronts the recent conjectural alternatives to evangelical Christianity. Dr. Henry discusses and relates the claims of science, philosophy, and religion, emphasizing intelligible divine revelation and scriptural authority in contrast to the anti-intellectual existentialism that pervades recent neo-Protestant theology.
Volume I of God, Revelation and Authority is theological prolegemona dealing particularly with the philosophical and cultural objections to theology that arise in the twentieth century. Dr. Henry discusses first what he terms the crisis of truth and word in contemporary Western life — the lack of belief in finalities, the lack of faith that words can communicate any truth at all. The role of the mass media, which he sees as contributing to the bewilderment of the age, is examined here at length. As a prelude to the study of theology, Dr. Henry discusses various theories of knowledge —intuition, experience, reason, logical positivism — and various contemporary views of life —the counterculture, the Jesus movement, the materialistic and naturalistic secular society. With this background he goes on to probe the nature of theology, its relationship with science and philosophy, its methods and criteria. Here he insists that intelligible divine revelation, given in nature and history and recorded in Scripture, is the basis for theology. Theology’s proper task is to exposit and elucidate the content of Scripture in an orderly way. To supplement his handling of the nature of theology, Dr. Henry discusses various philosophers —ancient, medieval, modern — and their ideas of how man receives his knowledge of God. He concentrates on those who insist that the idea of God arises not merely as a postulation or inference, but structures man as a divine gift. His own view is that authentic religious experience involves the reality of God in his revelation. This revelation is connected with the divine image in man, which means that man can receive and understand the divine disclosure. Volume I ends with a discussion of common ground between Christians and non-Christians, holding that the image of God in man has survived the fall, and that all human beings are accountable to God for their response to his ; revelation. "Christian theology emphasizes that every human being lives by some hidden faith. The Bible questions the faith by which many live and explains every alternative to and denial of revelational theism from its own perspective." |
| Note de contenu : |
- Preface - Introduction to Theology 1. The Crisis of Truth and Word 2. The Clash of Cultural Perspectives 3. Revelation and Myth 4. The Ways of Knowing 5. The Rise and Fall of Logical Positivism 6. The Countercultural Revolt 7. The Jesus Movement and Its Future 8. Secular Man and Ultimate Concerns 9. The Meaning or Myths Man Lives By 10. Theology and Science / Supplementary Note: Science and the Invisible 11. Theology and Philosophy 12. Is Theology a Science? 13. The Method and Criteria of Theology (I) 14. The Method and Criteria of Theology (II) 15. Empirical Verification and Christian Theism 16. Man's Primal Religious Experience 17. A Priori Explanation of Religion 18. The Philosophical Transcendent A Priori (I) 19. The Philosophical Transcendent A Priori (II) 20. The Theological Transcendent A Priori 21. The Philosophic Transcendental (Critical) A Priori 22. Transcendental Religious Apriorism 23. Reflections on Religious Apriorism 24. The "Common Ground” Controversy - Bibliography - Person Index / Scripture Index / Subject Index |
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