Revelation and Reconciliation
A Window on Modernity
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- Author: Stephen N. Williams, Union Theological College, Belfast
- Date Published: February 1996
- availability: Unavailable - out of print July 2014
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521484947
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Professor Williams's book addresses the turn against Christianity in the West. The author challenges some contemporary theologians' focus on epistemological objections to revelation and argues for the need to focus instead on anthropological objections to reconciliation. Discussing Locke, Nietzsche, and Barth's characterisation of the eighteenth century as 'absolutist', Williams demonstrates the sensibility which found repugnant the notion of a divine reconciling action through Christ in history, as does the modern. Williams shows that the driving force behind Nietzsche and Don Cupitt alike is a rejection of the Christian view of humanity and redemption. Revelation and Reconciliation concludes that either we have refuge in Christ or no refuge at all, but that we have no refuge in Christ without the crucifixion.
Read more- Abroad religious intellectual history from a theological point of view
- An alternative to some prominent contemporary theological interpretations
- Interpretation of thinkers not normally linked together - Locke, Nietzsche, Barth
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'... a thoughtful and original thesis, lucidly presented, with a wide-ranging frame of reference.' Reviews in Religion and Theology
See more reviews'In this fine book Williams makes a significant contributuion to reclaiming the high ground of Christian dogmatics.' Andrew Moore, Anvil
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- Date Published: February 1996
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521484947
- length: 200 pages
- dimensions: 217 x 138 x 11 mm
- weight: 0.247kg
- availability: Unavailable - out of print July 2014
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Spotlight on epistemology
2. Restoring some faith in Locke
3. Troubled giant
4. According to Nietzsche
5. The way of Don Cupitt
6. Reconciliation in history
Postscript: The one, the three and the many
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