| Events of Grace Contributor(s): Hardwick, Charley D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521552206 ISBN-13: 9780521552202 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 1996 Annotation: Persuasive argument that Christian faith is compatible with a scientific world view. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Fundamentalism - Religion | Christianity - General - Religion | Theology |
| Dewey: 230.046 |
| LCCN: 95020367 |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6.24" W x 9.28" (1.27 lbs) 326 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the liberal theological tradition dating from Schleiermacher, this text demonstrates that the Christian faith can be fully compatible with a scientific world view. Religion and God must be understood valuationally, not ontologically, which permits an existentialist account of faith entirely in terms of modes of existing. Hardwick weds Bultmann's demythologizing programme to Wieman's naturalistic concept of God as creative transformation. Defending a strong doctrine of justification by faith, he shows how both God and the knowledge of God can be conceived in terms of events of grace that transform possibilities of existence toward openness to the future. The book gives a complete existential and naturalistic account of sin, faith, God, the knowledge of God, Christology and the eschatological symbols that articulate Christian hope in the encounter with suffering and death. |