Christian Doctrine and Modern Culture
Pocketbok. The University of Chicago Press. Volume 5 uppl. 1989. 361 sidor.
Mycket gott skick.
Winner of the American Academy of Religion's 1990 Award for Excellence in Book Publishing
Jaroslav Pelikan begins this volume with the crisis of orthodoxy that confronted all Christian denominations of that beginning of the eighteenth century and continues through the twentieth in particular concerns with ecumenism.
The modern period in the historical of Christian doctrine, Pelikan demonstrates, may be defined as at the time when doctrines that hade been assumed more than debated for most of Christian history were themselves called into questions: the idea of revelation, the uniqueness of Christ, the authority of Scripture, the expectation of life after death, even the transcendence of God.
"Knowledge of the immense intellectual effort invested in the construction of the edifice of Christian doctrine by the best minds of each successive generation is worth having. And there can hardly be a more lucid, readable and a general guide to it can than this marvellous work." - Economist
