Religious authority in an age of doubt.

Published by London: Epworth Press [1968].

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VG orig. black boards in good, price-clipped black on red dj. 228 p.; 22 cm. (Fernley-Hartley lectures ; 1968) (Methodist Union Catalog D466) Contents: Preface -- Select bibliography -- 1 The new shape of an old problem -- 2The legacy of Schleiermacher -- 3 The grammar of infallibility -- 4 The ViaMedia defended -- 5 Revolt and retrenchment -- 6 Insight above all -- 7 The highest possible authority -- 8 The revision of infallibility -- 9 The ecumenical dimension -- 10 Only one way forward - -Additional note: the papalencyclical on contraception -- Index. -- `This conception of `sufficient authority' is.a useful one. But can we ascribe this authority to the Pope,or to the Creeds, or to the consensus of the Church Catholic, or to reason,or to the spiritual insight or Inner Light of the individual Christian,orto Christian experience,or to conscience,or even to Scripture? The conclusion to be drawn from the preceding chapters is that we cannot.' (p. 212) --`We are committed to Christ, and we live by faith in him. As we grow in theknowledge of him, we explore more and more deeply the truth as truth is inhim. In our exploration we are assisted by many witnesses, not one of which either alone or in concert with the rest relieves us of the re sponsibility of thinking and deciding for ourselves. But we go forward in the same faith as that in which we started the journey, surely trusting, because we believe that Christ holds the meaning of all life, that,if not to us one earth,at least to the Church after us, will be granted unity in the truth. Forthe promise that the Holy Spirit will guide us into all the truth is the promise, not of a Spirit-proved inerrancy, but of a Spirit-guided exploration of the. Binding is Hardcover.…

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Religious authority in an age of doubt.
Author
Davies, Rupert E. (Rupert Eric), 1909-1994.
Publisher
London: Epworth Press [1968].

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