Douglas Vickers

The Divine Purchase

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The contemporary church exhibits an elasticity and diversity of doctrine that at times sits oddly with biblical foundations. The presuppositions that God is and that God has spoken too often give place to the assumed priority of the explanatory competence of human reason. In that, the theology of the church is captive to the thought forms of an Enlightenment rationalism on one hand, or the looseness of postmodernist assumptions of individual autonomy on the other. In those respects, theological argument proceeds from man to God, and not--as in its biblically revealed contours--from God to man. The Divine Purchase calls the church back to a clear commitment to the gospel of redemption. The kernel of the gospel resides in the apostolic statement that Christ ""purchased the church with his own blood."" That divinely ordained accomplishment projects the only remedy for the human condition in the present decaying culture and its intellectual uncertainty and confusion.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 389g
• ISBN-13: 9781498226202
• ISBN-10: 1498226205
• Artikelnr.: 45190743

Autorenporträt

Douglas Vickers is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts. Throughout his academic career in the social sciences, he has maintained a close and productive interest in doctrinal and apologetic theology. His most recent theological titles include The Texture of Truth, Divine Redemption and the Refuge of Faith, Christian Confession and the Crackling Thorn, and The Fracture of Faith. He is a member of Covenant Church at Millers Falls, Massachusetts.