Christian Philosophical TheologyOUP Oxford, 2006 M03 17 - 320 pages Christian Philosophical Theology constitutes a Christian philosopher's look at various crucial topics in Christian theology, including belief in God, the nature of God, the Trinity, christology, the resurrection of Jesus, the general resurrection, redemption, and theological method. The book is tightly argued, and amounts to a coherent explanation of and case for the Christian world view. While the work is written from a broadly Reformed Protestant perspective and the author does not avoid controversial topics, the aim is to present a 'merely Christian' world view (to adapt slightly C. S. Lewis's famous term). That is, Stephen T. Davis attempts to write as much as possible from the perspective of the broad centre of Christian understanding. |
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... fact that Christianity is a world-view is important in an age that discourages intellectual systems, and that encourages at least some theologians to exercise enormous freedom in picking and choosing certain Christian notions and not ...
... fact that Christianity is a world-view is important in an age that discourages intellectual systems, and that encourages at least some theologians to exercise enormous freedom in picking and choosing certain Christian notions and not ...
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... fact'. It is just there, and that is all that can be said. (If the universe is a necessary being—a point that I will consider below—it will require no explanation for its existence.) Premiss (2) is a version of a principle that ...
... fact'. It is just there, and that is all that can be said. (If the universe is a necessary being—a point that I will consider below—it will require no explanation for its existence.) Premiss (2) is a version of a principle that ...
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... fact. Moreover, it needs to be pointed out that there are no existing things about which we know that they have no explanation for their existence. Premiss (3) represents what we might call the 'lumping together' strategy that we see in ...
... fact. Moreover, it needs to be pointed out that there are no existing things about which we know that they have no explanation for their existence. Premiss (3) represents what we might call the 'lumping together' strategy that we see in ...
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... fact be explained; then it strictly follows, as (5) says, that God exists. Because of the argument form known as modus ponens, it is impossible for (1) and (4) to be true and (5) false. II Now the GCA looks at first glance to have ...
... fact be explained; then it strictly follows, as (5) says, that God exists. Because of the argument form known as modus ponens, it is impossible for (1) and (4) to be true and (5) false. II Now the GCA looks at first glance to have ...
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