Three Outsiders by Allen, Diogenes

Three Outsiders (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781597525794)

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Three Outsiders by Allen, Diogenes

Three Outsiders

$24.00
Three Outsiders by Allen, Diogenes

Three Outsiders

$24.00
Format: Paperback
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The three outsiders are Blaise Pascal, Soren Kierkegaard, and Simone Weil. They were outsiders because they distanced themselves from the institutional church and also the societies around them in their respective eras. They believed that the church failed to take seriously the profound and disturbing relationship with God which is in Jesus Christ. From their position "outside they questioned the assumptions, practices, and understandings of their church and secular contemporaries. Each produced profoundly original but difficult writings (often in uncompleted fragments), which Professor Allen has organized and interpreted for anyone who asks the question, "How am I to be a Christian?

Author: Diogenes Allen
ISBN-10: 1597525790
ISBN-13: 9781597525794
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Language: English
Published: 08/24/2006
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.40d
By Diogenes Allen
By Diogenes Allen
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Diogenes Allen is Stuart Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary, where he taught for thirty-six years. He is both a Presbyterian minister and an Episcopal priest, presently serving as a priest associate at All Saints', Princeton, New Jersey. He has written fourteen books including 'Temptation', 'The Traces of God', 'Philosophy for Understanding Theology', 'Three Outsiders: Pascal, Kierkegaard, Simone Weil', and 'Christian Belief in a Postmodern World'.

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