The Christian View of the Old Testament - Softcover

Eiselen, Frederick C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1596058366 ISBN 13: 9781596058361

Verlag: Cosimo Classics, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

After a close study of the Genesis narrative and the numerous attempts of harmonizing it with science, the present writer has become thoroughly convinced that it is impossible to establish a complete, detailed harmony between the Genesis account of creation and the established facts of science without doing violence to the Bible or science or both.-from "Chapter II: The Old Testament and Modern Science"With a up-to-the minute modernity refreshing in a book almost a century old, this 1912 gingerly walks the precarious line between acknowledging the achievements of science and recognizing the wisdom and comfort accorded by religious faith. Examining more than just the centuries-long clash between faith and reason, Biblical scholar Frederick Carl Eiselen, a voice almost forgotten today, discusses how and why the Old Testament holds its own against modern criticism, contemporary archaeology, and comparative mythology to remain of concrete significance for today’s Christians.A brave and insightful work at the turn of the 20th-century, it remains an even braver one at the turn of the 21st.OF INTEREST TO: religious philosophers, students of 20th-century Christianity, readers of culture-war issuesAmerican author FREDERICK CARL EISELEN (1872-1937) also wrote Prophecy and the Prophets in Their Historical Relations (1909), Books of the Pentateuch: Their Origin, Contents, and Significance (1916), and Psalms and Other Sacred Writings: Their Origin, Contents, and Significance (1918).

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During the past half century the attitude of many men toward theB ible has undergone a decided change. The old confidence seems to be gone; a feeling of uncertainty and of unrest has taken its place. This small volume is intended to set forth the Christian view of theO ld Testament, and to furnish answers to some of the questions men are asking concerning theS acred Scriptures of the Hebrews, which the early Christians included in the canon of Christian sacred writings. The old foundations are not shaken. The Old Testament has stood the tests of the past, which have been severe and often merciless; and there is to-day stronger ground than ever for believing that in its pages men spake from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit. Frederick Carl Eiselen. Evanston, I llinois.
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• Verlag: Cosimo Classics
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1596058366
• ISBN 13: 9781596058361
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
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