John Locke and the Eighteenth-Century Divines by Sell, Alan P. F.

John Locke and the Eighteenth-Century Divines (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781597528719)

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John Locke and the Eighteenth-Century Divines by Sell, Alan P. F.

John Locke and the Eighteenth-Century Divines

$47.00
John Locke and the Eighteenth-Century Divines by Sell, Alan P. F.

John Locke and the Eighteenth-Century Divines

$47.00
Format: Paperback
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'Where Christian apologetics are concerned, is Locke to be endorsed, repaired, modified, or forsaken?' The diverse answers given to this question by the eighteenth-century divines form the complex subject of this book, which offers the first detailed account of his influence upon the religious thinkers of the eighteenth century. The work is based upon a thorough search of relevant materials, many of them scarce and widely dispersed. But the question is still relevant three centuries after Locke's death, and Professor Sell's objective in this volume is not only historical. From this study of the reception of Locke by the divines there emerge pressing questions about method, reason, faith, revelation, and authority which need to be addressed by those who would attempt Christian apologetics as Christianity's third millennium approaches. Although this book stands in its own right, it can also be read as a companion volume to the author's Philosophical Idealism and Christian Belief (University of Wales Press, 1995). Together, the two books represent soundings taken in important Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment intellectual traditions. The question whether an apologetic method may be found which avoids the pitfalls exposed both by the examination of Locke and the idealists, and which circumvents latter-day embargoes upon Christian apologetics, will be addressed in a third and final volume.

Author: Alan P. F. Sell
ISBN-10: 1597528714
ISBN-13: 9781597528719
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2006
Pages: 442
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.21lbs
Size: 8.12h x 6.02w x 0.96d
By Alan P. F. Sell
By Alan P. F. Sell
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Alan P. F. Sell, of the University of Wales Trinity Saint David and the University of Chester, is a philosopher-theologian and ecumenist with strong interests in the history of Christian thought in general, and of the Reformed and Dissenting traditions in particular. A minister of The United Reformed Church, he has held rural and urban pastorates, has served from Geneva as Theological Secretary of the World Alliance (now Communion) of Reformed Churches, and has held academic posts in England, Canada, and Wales. He has earned the rarely-awarded senior doctorates, DD and DLitt, is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and of the Royal Historical Society, and holds honorary doctorates from the USA, Hungary, Canada, and Romania. He is the author of more than thirty books, and the editor of others. Ever seeking to hold together what belongs together, he explores the relations between philosophy, theology and apologetics, Christian ethics and moral philosophy, and doctrine in relation to spirituality and the ecumenical quest.

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