God and history : the dialectical tension of faith and history in modern thought
Laurence W. Wood (Author)
This book is a fresh examination of the problem of faith and history. Instead of being a mere liability, it is argued her that the strength of the Christian faith is its historicity. Although modern thought was not always friendly to Christian faith because of its deeply embedded dualism, it raised the critical intellectual issues that Christian theology needed to address. Advancing a more critical understanding of the nature of history than modern thought was generally able to achieve because of its dualistic thinking, this work argues for an integrative dialectic of historical probability and the certainty of faith--from back cover
xiii, 326 pages ; 23 cm
9780975543542, 0975543547
62771354