Author : Douglas Vickers
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1620327422
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)
Book Synopsis Being and Belief by : Douglas Vickers
Download or read book Being and Belief written by Douglas Vickers and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-01-30 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The confession the church makes to the world sits oddly in the contemporary cultural complex. Intellectual fashions in the marketplace of ideas have moved beyond an accommodation of biblical-theological categories. Philosophy is unsure of its status in an amorphous postmodernism, and theology threatens to degenerate into intellectual experimentation. They have become mutually suspicious and hesitant of conversation. But a heavy fault lies with the church's own confessional status. For what is it the church has to say to the world? Has it preserved confessional continuity with the Reformation theology that rediscovered its biblical foundations and liberated it from intellectual and confessional shackles? Has the church surrendered the possibility of relevance by having lost its own historic identity? And is it necessary to conclude, as a result, that contemporary culture is no longer penetrable by any word from the old wells of divine disclosure? In this brief but challenging book, Douglas Vickers brings the Christian confession to the forefront of consideration and reestablishes a theology grounded in historic verities sustained by the scriptural declarations. In straightforward and accessible terms, Being and Belief addresses the meaning of biblical truth for Christian understanding and Christian life.