On Theological, Biblical, and Other Subjects
by Robert Flint
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217244510
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: IV. APOLOGETICS AND DOGMATICS, HOW RELATED. Gentlemen, ?Desiring to treat of a subject which should be interesting and useful to all students of theology, nothing suggests itself to me as more likely to be so than a consideration of what is implied in the study of Christian doctrine. This is the subject, therefore, to which I shall ask your attention for a short time. Let me begin, then, by saying that we must esteem doctrine itself more than the defence of doctrine, ?that we must subordinate the vindication of the faith to the presentation of its objects and the exposition of its contents, ?that we cannot reasonably put what is called Apologetics on the same level with what is called Dogmatics. It may be well to emphasise this fact a little, for we are undoubtedly in danger of forgetting it. We live at a time when apologetical tasks are forced upon us. From all sides Christian truth is attacked; on all sides there are systems presented which claim to be substitutes for Christianity. It is, in consequence, simply impossible for a theologian in the present day not to be a manof war. The sword and shield are unfortunately instruments which he requires very often to handle. A large part of his activity must be devoted to defending what he regards as the true system and to assailing hostile systems. It is useless to complain of this, because it is inevitable; it is foolish to ignore it; it is cowardly to shrink from meeting the responsibilities which it involves. But there is a grave danger connected with this state of things ? a danger which the theologian cannot perceive too clearly nor guard against too carefully. It is the danger of coming to regard the relation of the truth to unbelief as more important than its relation to faith, or even than its internal self - consiste.
| ISBN-13 | 9780217244510 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217244513 |
| Weight | 0.66 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.45 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 198 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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