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With the grain of the universe : the church's witness and natural theology : being the Gifford Lectures delivered at the University of St. Andrews in 2001 / Stanley Hauerwas.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Gifford lectures ; 2001.Publication details: Grand Rapids, Mich. : Brazos Press, ©2001.Description: 249 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1587430169
  • 9781587430169
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: With the grain of the universe.; Online version:: With the grain of the universe.DDC classification:
  • 230 21
LOC classification:
  • BT102 .H366 2001
Contents:
God and the Gifford lectures -- The faith of William James -- God and William James -- The liberalism of Reinhold Niebuhr -- Reinhold Niebuhr's natural theology -- The witness that was Karl Barth -- The witness of the Church dogmatics -- The necessity of witness.
Summary: These lectures explore how natural theology, divorced from a confessional doctrine of God, inevitably distorts our understanding of God's character and the world in which we live. Hauerwas criticizes those who use natural theology to defend theism as the philosophical prerequisite to confessional claims. Instead, after Karl Barth, he argues that natural theology should witness to "the non-Godforsakeness of the world, even under the conditions of sin."
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

God and the Gifford lectures -- The faith of William James -- God and William James -- The liberalism of Reinhold Niebuhr -- Reinhold Niebuhr's natural theology -- The witness that was Karl Barth -- The witness of the Church dogmatics -- The necessity of witness.

These lectures explore how natural theology, divorced from a confessional doctrine of God, inevitably distorts our understanding of God's character and the world in which we live. Hauerwas criticizes those who use natural theology to defend theism as the philosophical prerequisite to confessional claims. Instead, after Karl Barth, he argues that natural theology should witness to "the non-Godforsakeness of the world, even under the conditions of sin."

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