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| Titre : | God, Revelation and Authority. Vol III: God How Speaks and Shows - Fifteen Theses, Part Two |
| Auteurs : | Carl F. H. Henry, Auteur |
| Type de document : | texte imprimé |
| Editeur : | Waco [USA] : Word Books, 1979 |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-0-8499-0091-4 |
| Format : | 536 p. |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Résumé : |
In this, the third volume of his landmark work now extended to five volumes, Carl F. H. Henry continues his treatment of the fifteen theses of divine revelation begun in volume II. Volume III covers Theses 8, 9, and 10, dealing with the incarnation, and Jesus as God's personal revelation; Jesus as the Lord, the Word or spoken revelation of God; and revelation as rational-verbal communication.
As God’s personal revelation, Jesus held a high view of Scripture, God's written revelation. He considered Scripture inspired and authoritative, at the same time claiming for himself an authority equal to the Old Testament. He is the mediator between God and man because of his life, death and resurrection. As the risen Lord, he is the center of the good news of the gospel — that is, God’s divine plan for restoring men to fellowship with him, bringing them into his kingdom and using them to work for him in the world. As in his previous volumes, Dr. Henry not only analyzes the biblical position, but also takes on the opponents of historic orthodoxy and critics of the evangelical position. Here he answers arguments against Jesus as the Messiah and against the factual, historical nature of the resurrection. Since Jesus is the eternal Logos, or Word, of God, God’s revelation is intelligible to men and is the source of all meaning. The biblical teaching on the Logos is thoroughly examined, leading into Dr. Henry’s central thesis — that thought and language are basically rational and logical, that ultimate meaning is noncontradictory, and that God’s revelation comes to us in intelligible ideas and meaningful words that human beings can understand and trust as true. In this section he discusses the nature of knowledge, the biblical concept of Wisdom, the origin and nature of language and specifically of religious language. He contrasts the logical positivist view with a theistic view of language and the origin of concepts. Of all the great world religions, only Islam, Judaism, and Christianity conceive of a God who speaks his mind intelligibly. In modern Christian theology, however, this concept has been eroded by a different view of divine disclosure, one that replaces objective, rational, verbal revelation with subjective, paradoxical encounter. The cost is the loss of many central biblical motifs. Dr. Henry answers these objections to revelation as rational found in the works of Barth, Brunner, Bultmann, and others. What is at stake in all three of these theses, Dr. Henry affirms, is the very nature of faith itself, of our understanding of God, of Christ, of salvation. "The religion of redemptive revelation, for all its emphasis on personal trust in the living God, does not expound believing in God in isolation from believing about God. . . The unlettered evangelist who urges his audience simply to 'take the plunge’ has found a twentieth-century counterpart in the theologian who exhorts divinity students to polevault into paradox. The costly consequence of this theology is that it neglects the very propositions that must be true if Christianity is to be true, and if faith is to be Christian." |
| Note de contenu : |
- Preface - Thesis Eight: God's Personal Incarnation: 1. The Disclosure of God’s Eternal Secret 2. Prophecy and Fulfillment: The Last Days 3. Jesus’ View of Scripture 4. The Only Divine Mediator 5. The Content of the Gospel 6. Jesus and the Word 7. Jesus Christ—God-Man or Man-God? 8. Shall We Look for Another? 9. The Resurrection of the Crucified Jesus - Thesis Nine: The Mediating Logos: 10. The Intelligibility of the Logos of God 11. The Biblically Attested Logos 12. The Living Logos and Defunct Counterfeits 13. The Logos as Mediating Agent of Divine Revelation 14. The Logos and Human Logic 15. The Logic of Religious Language - Thesis Ten: Revelation as Rational-Verbal Communication: 16. Revelation as a Mental Act 17. Cognitive Aspects of Divine Disclosure 18. Wisdom as a Carrier of Revelation 19. The Origin of Language 20. Is Religious Language Meaningful? 21. The Meaning of Religious Language 22. Religious Language and Other Language 23. A Theistic View of Language 24. The Living God Who Speaks 25. Neo-Protestant Objections to Propositional Revelation 26. Linguistic Analysis and Propositional Truth 27. The Bible as Propositional Revelation 28. Doctrinal Belief and the Word of God - Bibliography - Person Index / Scripture Index / Subject Index |
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