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Grace, order, openness and diversity : reclaiming liberal theology / Ian Bradley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bradley, Ian C.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Liberalism (Religion).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Continuum, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this highly accessible, passionately argued and scholarly book, Ian Bradley presents fundamentalism, born a hundred years ago in the United States of America, as the great twentieth-century heresy and aberration. He identifies and seeks to reclaim for the twenty first century a liberal theological tradition existing in Christianity, Islam, Judaism and the other major world faiths. This liberal heart is found in their scriptures and was often to the fore in their foundational stages but has more recently been overlaid with conservative reaction, fundamentalism and fear. He defines this liber
- Contents:
- Defining liberal theology and charting its history
- The present predicament and the challenge to the liberal frame of mind
- Grace
- Order
- Openness
- Diversity
- Escaping from fundamentalism and living in God's hope.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-177) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612867859
- 9781282867857
- 1282867857
- 9780567054463
- 0567054462
- OCLC:
- 676698619
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