Author: Edgar Young MullinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authority
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Freedom and Authority in Religion
Author: Edgar Young MullinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authority
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Freedom and Authority in Religion
Author: Edgar Young MullinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authority
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Democratic Religion
Author: Gregory A. WillsPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0195160991
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
No American denomination identified itself more closely with the nation's democratic ideal than the Baptists. Most antebellum southern Baptist churches allowed women and slaves to vote on membership matters and preferred populists preachers who addressed their appeals to the common person. Paradoxically no denomination could wield religious authority as zealously as the Baptists. Between 1785 and 1860 they ritually excommunicated forty to fifty thousand church members in Georgia alone. Wills demonstrates how a denomination of freedom-loving individualists came to embrace an exclusivist spirituality--a spirituality that continues to shape Southern Baptist churches in contemporary conflicts between moderates who urge tolerance and conservatives who require belief in scriptural inerrancy. Wills's analysis advances our understanding of the interaction between democracy and religious authority, and will appeal to scholars of American religion, culture, and history, as well as to Baptist observers.
Freedom and Authority in Religion
Author: Edgar Young MullinsPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330147023
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Excerpt from Freedom and Authority in Religion It is scarcely open to question that there is a need for a clear exposition of the problem of authority in religion. Two chief considerations have led the writer to prepare this volume: First, the disquietude and mental unrest of many ministers of the gospel and thoughtful Christians, as they have noted the modem attempt to eradicate the whole conception of authority from Christianity, resulting in many instances in a paralysis of faith or an uncertainty which destroys the power of the gospel message; and secondly, the one-sidedness or inadequacy of many books on authority in religion written from the scientific or philosophic standpoint. A book written under the influence of these motives obviously should possess certain corresponding qualities. For one thing, it should be within the grasp of the average educated minister who is in earnest in his desire to understand one of the most vital themes of modem times. At the same time it should discuss with a sufficient degree of thoroughness the scientific and philosophic aspects of the subject. The problem of authority in religion involves directly or indirectly all the deeper problems of science and philosophy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Freedom and Authority in Religion (Classic Reprint)
Author: Edgar Young MullinsPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780484918534
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
Excerpt from Freedom and Authority in Religion The argument which we ofier in these pages recognizes fully the value of the distinctive scientific criterion of explanation as employed hitherto, but it denies with emphasis its adequacy for the re ligious life. Nor does the argument depend for its cogency upon the outcome of pending discussions as to the existence in the biological world of a prin ciple of creative evolution as urged by Professor Bergson, or upon something else over and above mechanism and chemical agencies which may lead to the discovery of a second criterion of scientific explanation. The bases of religious knowledge lie in personality and personal relationships. This we undertake to show. Along with this we have sought to indicate incidentally to what extent the current effort to make religion and theology scientific has been misleading. Until the conception of science obtains a wider meaning such an effort either leads too far or it does not lead far enough; too far in that, if the scientific criterion of physical continuity is consistently and thoroughly applied everywhere, God and religion vanish; or not far enough, in that, if deductions from the plane of nature to a sphere above nature be the sum total of the outcome. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Freedom and Authority
Author: J. I. PackerPublisher: Regent College Pub
ISBN: 9781573830355
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Western society is in a crisis: all of us want to be free, but many do not know what true freedom is, much less how to achieve it. Even within the church differing views about the authority of Scripture and its role in Christian life and thought have left split some denominations and left others on the verge of schism. In Freedom & Authority, J.I. Packer shows the true nature of freedom and the only way to experience it. "True freedom," writes Packer, "is found where Jesus Christ is Lord in living personal fellowship. It is under the authority of a fully trusted Bible that Christ is most fully known and this God-given freedom most fully enjoyed. If therefore we have at heart the spiritual renewal for society, for churches, and for our own lives, we shall make much of the entire trustworthy--that is, the inerrancy--of Holy Scripture as the inspired and liberating Word of God." J. I. Packer is Board of Governors' Professor of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia. Dr. Packer is author of many books, including Knowing God, A Grief Sanctified, and Keep in Step with the Spirit.
Freedom and Authority in Religion
Author: Edgar Young MullinsPublisher: Franklin Classics
ISBN: 9780342985654
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
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Freedom and Authority in Religions and Religious Education
Author: Brian Edward GatesPublisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN: 9780304324194
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
This text comprises a collection of essays examining religious experience and tradition. The first part of the work focuses on the nature and sources of authority in each of six major religions and considers how freedom is perceived and achieved by them. It goes on to examine the religious contexts of two examples of nations divided within themselves, Northern Ireland and Israel. The book's second section looks at the process of education, the tensions between freedom and authority within this, and their implications for religious education.
Freedom and Authority in Religions and Religious Education
Author: Brian GatesPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474280951
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
This fascinating collection of essays examines religious experience and tradition. The first part focuses on the nature and sources of authority in each of six major religions and considers how freedom is perceived by them. It goes on to examine the religious contexts of two examples of nations divided within themselves: Northern Ireland and Israel. The second part of the book looks at the process of education, the tensions between freedom and authority and their implications for religious education.
Freedom, Faith, and Dogma
Author: V. S. SolovievPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791475362
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
A collection of works by nineteenth-century Russian religious philosopher V. S. Soloviev, critic of secularization, anti-Semitism, and the religious life of his time.