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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... sin and redemption. The question here is how human beings are redeemed from sin, death, and suVering. Chapter 11 considers the strength and weaknesses, on the basis of natural theology alone, of two systems of salvation—what I call ...
... sin and redemption. The question here is how human beings are redeemed from sin, death, and suVering. Chapter 11 considers the strength and weaknesses, on the basis of natural theology alone, of two systems of salvation—what I call ...
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... severed with the entrance of sin and spiritual blindness into the universe. So far as individual persons are concerned, that relationship is broken whenever we separate ourselves from God by our pride, 14 Why Believe? God and Belief in God.
... severed with the entrance of sin and spiritual blindness into the universe. So far as individual persons are concerned, that relationship is broken whenever we separate ourselves from God by our pride, 14 Why Believe? God and Belief in God.
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... sins, rescuing me from harm, etc.), that would be private evidence. (I should note that the term 'private' here does not mean 'logically private', in the sense in which some philosophers used to argue sense-data are private.) Powerful ...
... sins, rescuing me from harm, etc.), that would be private evidence. (I should note that the term 'private' here does not mean 'logically private', in the sense in which some philosophers used to argue sense-data are private.) Powerful ...
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... sinful heart to the message of the word of God and gives assurance of its truth. 'Indeed,' Calvin declared, 'the ... sin is that it prevents people from recognizing truths that we strongly wish not to be true, for example, that we owe ...
... sinful heart to the message of the word of God and gives assurance of its truth. 'Indeed,' Calvin declared, 'the ... sin is that it prevents people from recognizing truths that we strongly wish not to be true, for example, that we owe ...
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... Sin has the pandemic eVect of hardening the heart against the truth. People do not want to hear that they must live godly lives, that they have a moral defect called pride that has epistemological consequences, that they cannot save ...
... Sin has the pandemic eVect of hardening the heart against the truth. People do not want to hear that they must live godly lives, that they have a moral defect called pride that has epistemological consequences, that they cannot save ...
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