Theology as an empirical science / Douglas Clyde Macintosh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Macintosh, Douglas Clyde, 1877-1948, author.

Series:

Routledge library editions. Philosophy of religion.

Routledge Library Editions. Philosophy of Religion ; Volume 23

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theology, Doctrinal.

Experience (Religion).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (293 pages)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Investigating the question 'can theology, description of the divine reality, be made truly scientific?', this book addresses logic and human knowledge alongside experimental religion. An important philosophic work by a prolific theologian also known for his later court case regarding conscientious objection, this book describes how it is possible to relate theological theory with religious experience of the divine the way that the sciences relate to human acquaintance with things and people in social experience.

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; TitlePage; Copyright Page; OriginalTitle Page; OriginalCopyright Page; Dedication; Preface; Table of Contents; Introduction: Theological Method; Part I: The Presuppositions of Theology; Chapter 1. The Presuppositions ofall Empirical Sciences; Chapter 2. The Pertient Results of Other Sciences; Chapter 3. Human Free Agency; Chapter 4. The Possibility of Immortality; Chapter 5. The Fact of Sin,with its Evil Consequences; Chapter 6. The Presupposition Peculiar to Theology: The Existence of God; Part II: The Empirical Data and Laws of Theology; Chapter 1. Revelation in General

Chapter 2. Revelation in the Person of ChristChapter 3. Revelation in the Work of Christ; Chapter 4. Revelation in the Christian Experience of Salvation; Chapter 5. The Laws of Empirical Theology; Part III: Theological Theory; Chapter 1. The Moral Attributes of God,and the Relation of God to Man; Chapter 2. The Metaphysical Attributes of God; Chapter 3. The Relation of God to the Universe; Chapter 4. Eschatological Deductions; Chapter 5. The Problem of Evil (Theodicy); Appendix: ASketch of the Philosophy of Religion, Showing the Relation of Theology as an Empirial Science to Philosophy; Index

Notes:

"First published in 1919"--T.p. verso.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed May 9, 2013).

ISBN:

1-134-05026-7

0-203-52929-4

1-134-05019-4

9780203529294

OCLC:

842415664