The Christian Life - Softcover

Cunningham, Francis L B Op

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1608992861 ISBN 13: 9781608992867

Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2010

Synopsis

""The proper study of mankind,"" said Alexander Pope, ""is man'' -an apt summary of the spirit of his age of rationalism. All of Christian tradition protests against this mockery of the true state of things; divine revelation contradicts it outright; a just philosophy recoils from so limited an approach to reality. That distilled wisdom of Catholicism which is theology knows one subject and one subject only: God. But theology first considers God as he is the cause of all things and their exemplar; in this vision it considers all of reality, which is more true in divine thought than when seen directly in itself. Now the theologian turns to study God as he is the end and perfecting goal of creatures in their return to him from whom they first came forth; in particular he will study the creature who alone holds the reins of his own conduct: man. (from the Introduction) This edition is a scanned facsimile of the original edition published in 1959 by Priory Press

Edition details

• Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1608992861
• ISBN 13: 9781608992867
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 852