Explores the crucial issue of the authority of the past in Christian theology, focusing especially on how doctrine serves to maintain continuity within the Christian tradition.
Autor: | McGrath, Alister E. |
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ISBN: | 9780802843166 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
Verlag: | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company |
Veröffentlicht: | 18.10.1996 |
Untertitel: | A Study in the Foundation of Doctrinal Criticism |
Alister E. McGrath is professor of historical theology at Oxford University and director of the Oxford Centre for Evanglism and Apologetics, Wycliffe Hall, Oxford. The director of the John Templeton Oxford Seminars on Science and Christianity, he holds doctorates from Oxford in molecular biophysics and historical and systematic theology. He is the author of more than forty books, including The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World, and In the Beginning: The Story of the King James Bible and How It Changed a Nation, a Language, and a Culture.