Religion, Reason and Revelation.

by Gordon Haddon Clark [1902-1985]

Hardcover, 1961

Call number

BL51 .C544 1961

Publication

Philadelphia: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company.

Physical description

vii, 241 p.; 22 cm

Notes

CONTENTS
I. Is Christianity a Religion?
--Unity and Multiformity.
--A Disconcerting Disjunction.
--THE PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH.
--Emotion versus Intellect.
--Preconceived Notions.
--Bunyan and Edwards.
--Does Description Explain?
--Does Description Discover?
--Description and Presupposition.
--Integration of Personality.
THE COMPARATIVE METHOD
--Is God Essential to Religion?
--The Hunting of the Snark.
--Common Human Needs.
--Meaningful Words.
CHRISTIANITY.
--Definition of Christianity.
--The Religions.
--Christian Conversion.
--Sin.

II. Faith and Reason.
REASON AND FAITH.
--Natural Theology.
--The Cosmological Argument.
--Hume and Hodge.
REASON WITHOUT FAITH.
--Early Irreligion.
--Rationalism.
--Empiricism.
--Immanuel Kant.
--Hegel and His Critics.
--Absolute Ignorance.
FAITH WITHOUT REASON.
--Types of Mysticism.
--Soren Kierkegaard.
--Nietzsche.
FAITH AND REASON.
--Popular Religion.
--The Analysis of Personality.
--Trust and Assent.
--Anti-Intellectualism.
--The Reformed Faith.
--Definition of Reason.

III. Inspiration and Language.
--The Biblical Claims.
--The Dictation Objection.
CONTEMPORARY THEORIES.
--Religious Language.
--Linguistics.
THEISTIC LINGUISTICS.
--Theology versus Language.
--Literal Language.
LOGICAL POSITIVISM.

IV. Revelation and Morality.
--Ethical Disagreement.
UTILITARIANISM.
--The Greatest Good of the Greatest Number.
--Calculation.
--The Good.
--Values in Experience.
DEWEY AND INSTRUMENTALISM.
--Changing Morality.
--Values in Experience.
--Security and Scientific Ethics.
--Evil Ideas.
--Murder.
--Is Life Worth Living?
--Concluding Criticism.
CHRISTIAN ETHICS.
--The Divine Legislator.
--Ethics and Theology.
--Divine Sovereignty.
--A Contemporary Example.
--Abraham, the Father of Us All.

V. God and Evil.
--Historical Exposition.
--Free Will.
--Reformation Theology.
--Gill's Exegesis.
--Omniscience.
--Responsibility and Free Will.
--The Will of God.
--Puppets.
--Appeal to Ignorance.
--Responsibility and Determinism.
--Distortions and Cautions.
--Deo Soli Gloria.

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020a057027

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