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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Essentials of Christian Thought: Seeing Reality through the Biblical Storydi Roger E. Olson
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Christians disagree on doctrine, politics, church government, certain moral questions--just about everything under the sun, it can seem. Yet a unity remains, centered around a core outlook on God and the world that is common to all believers. Or at least, such an outlook should unite Christians of all theological and church backgrounds. However, alternate visions of reality often infect and corrupt Christians' thinking. In The Essentials of Christian Thought, eminent theologian and church historian Roger Olson outlines the basic perspective on the world that all Christians, regardless of the place and time in which they are born, have historically held. This underlying metaphysic accords with all orthodox theologies, whether Calvinist or Arminian, Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, or Protestant, but it separates Christianity from other religious and secular perspectives. It is, quite simply, the essential requirement of a Christian view of the world. Bold and incisive, The Essentials of Christian Thought will prompt thoughtful readers and students to more consciously appropriate the core of their faith, guarding against ideas that subtly but necessarily invite compromise. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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It seems to me that Olson contends we do not need to go to philosophical views of being or metaphysics to understand or explain the Christian faith as, perhaps, the Church Fathers have done, because the Bible has its own metaphysical view of reality. He further argues that "throughout the centuries and yet today Christian thinkers have succumbed to the temptation to replace the thinking of the Bible with alien philosophies under the wrong assumption that the Bible is a bunch of stories which no reasonable, workable metaphysical vision (or ethic) can be drawn for later cultures and their Christians" (p.69).
Olson suggests that what we need to know of ultimate reality, the Bible provides adequate answers; that we need not look outside the Bible to philosophy, while it does have some benefits, to explain the Bible, but that the Bible "contains its own metaphysical vision of reality" (p.77).
Olson says that while Christians have varying beliefs on certain issues, nevertheless, they are united in the essential tenets that are absolutely necessary to thought identified as Christian or Biblical.
An excellent read for those interested in the relationship between philosophy and the Bible and the negative impact the former has upon the latter with correctives of ultimate reality from a Christian philosophical perspective. (