Biblical faith and natural theology : the Gifford lectures for 1991, delivered in the University of Edinburgh
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Biblical faith and natural theology : the Gifford lectures for 1991, delivered in the University of Edinburgh
（Clarendon paperbacks）
Clarendon Press, 1994, c1993
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Includes bibliography (p. [223]-235) and indexes
"First published in paperback 1994"--t.p. verso
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Description
Do people know about God just by being human beings? Or do they need special divine assistance, through the Bible and the church? `Natural Theology' is the idea that human beings `by nature', that is just through being human, know something of God; or that perhaps they gain such knowledge from observing the world we live in. Its opposite is `revealed theology', or the knowledge of God communicated only through special channels - through Jesus Christ, through the
Bible, through the church. Natural theology was long accepted as a basic ingredient in all theology, but in the twentieth century it was rejected by important theologians, especially Karl Barth. His views denied all natural theology and placed greater emphasis on the Bible. But what if the Bible itself
uses, depends on, and supports natural theology?
In this book, Professor Barr pursues these questions within the Bible itself and within the history of ideas, earlier and more recent; and he looks at their implications for religion and theology in the future.
Table of Contents
- 1. Natural theology in this century: Concepts and approaches
- 2. Paul on the Areopagus
- 3. St Paul and the Hebrew background
- 4. Natural theology in the Jewish tradition
- 5. Within the Old Testament
- 6. A return to the modern discussion
- 7. Religion, tradition, and natural theology
- 8. The image of God and natural theology
- 9. Science, language
- 10. Scripture
- 11. Natural theology and the future of biblical theology
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