Confessing and Commending the Faith: Historic Witness and Apologetic Method. By Alan P. F. Sell. Pp. xii + 550. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2002. isbn 0 7083 1747 2. £45
The major problems in contemporary theology were forged in the furnace of Enlightenment scepticism: miracles; the historical warrant of the Gospels; the ethical nature of God and his responsibility for human wickedness or natural evil. However different from the more insular and abstract concerns of...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2005
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2005, Volume: 56, Issue: 2, Pages: 814-816 |
| Review of: | Confessing and commending the faith (Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2002) (Hedley, Douglas)
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| Summary: | The major problems in contemporary theology were forged in the furnace of Enlightenment scepticism: miracles; the historical warrant of the Gospels; the ethical nature of God and his responsibility for human wickedness or natural evil. However different from the more insular and abstract concerns of medieval theology, this formation of the distinctly ‘modern’ problem of faith mirrored the work of those earliest Christian apologists who tried to commend the Christian faith to a pagan world. Alan Sell's work is in the tradition of Justin Martyr or Clement of Alexandria, trying to reconcile the claims of Athens with Jerusalem. Perhaps the disenchantment of the modern world mirrors the pessimism of Late Antique culture: the pervading mood of an age of anxiety. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fli241 |