Faith and Criticism: The Sarum Lectures 1992 - Hardcover

Mitchell, Basil

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198267584 ISBN 13: 9780198267584

Verlag: Clarendon Press, 1995

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Book by Mitchell Basil

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'Professor Mitchell offers a lucid and persuasive account of today's theological landscape.'Anthony Freeman, Church Times, 10 March 1995

'Professor Mitchell offers a lucid and persuasive account of today's theological landscape.'Anthony Freeman, Church Times

In his latest book, Faith and Criticism...he keeps his head over an issue which is in danger of splitting the churches, and continues to write simple and attractive English. (Expository Times)

Professor Mitchell offers a lucid and persuasive account of today's theological landscape. (Basil Mitchell, Church Times)

Two features add to the attraction of Professor Mitchell's discussion, the autobiographical examples and metaphorical illustrations. (The Expository Times, May 1995 Volume 106 Number 8)

stimulating book ... an important contribution to contemporary religious thought and attitudes. Its clear minded defence of the interdependence of faith and criticism desreves to be widely read and carefully considered. (Epworth Review)

Mitchell offers a lucid and persuasive account of today's theological landscape. (Times Higher Education Supplement)

A lucid and persuasive account of today's theological landscape. (Times Higher Education Supplement)

We are once again in his debt for the clarity and urbanity he brings to the discussion of issues in the epistemology of religious belief. (Religious Studies)

I must confess that Mitchell's treatment is so judicious, so eminently sensible, so beautifully a specimen of the Anglican via media that this partisan of the via media can find little with which to seriously disagree. What Mitchell has set out to do in this book is to address fundamental questions concerning the relation of faith and criticism ... let us be thankful for the wise counsel contained in this book and profit from it when we undertake tasks of the sort upon which it is a reflection. (William P. Alston, Syracuse University, Faith and Philosophy)

Reseña del editor:

Faith and Criticism addresses a central problem in the Church today - the tension between traditionalists and progressives. Traditionalists want above all to hold fast to traditional foundations in belief and to ensure that nothing of value is lost, even at the risk of a clash with 'modern knowledge'. Progressives are concerned above all to proclaim a faith that is credible today, even at the risk of sacrificing some elements of traditional doctrine. They are often locked in uncomprehending conflict. Basil Mitchell argues that, not only in theology but in any other serious intellectual pursuit, faith and criticism are interdependent. A tradition which is not open to criticism will eventually ossify; and without faith in some established tradition criticism has nothing to fasten upon. This interdependence of faith and criticism has implications for society at large. Religious education can be Christian without ceasing to be critical, and a liberal society can espouse Christian values.

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• Verlag: Clarendon Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0198267584
• ISBN 13: 9780198267584
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 178