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A Modern Introduction to Theology: New Questions for Old Beliefs
Philip Kennedy
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Description for A Modern Introduction to Theology: New Questions for Old Beliefs
Hardcover. Useful for students, this book helps them get to grips with the essentials of the Christian religion: its history and its key thinkers, its successes and its failures. It contends that traditional Christian theology must extensively overhaul many of its theses because of a multitude of modern social, historical and intellectual revolutions. Num Pages: 300 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: HRLB. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138 x 28. Weight in Grams: 663.
Philip Kennedy, here, offers the first book that any student - with or without religious convictions - can profitably use to get quickly to grips with the essentials of the Christian religion: its history and its key thinkers, its successes and its failures. Most existing undergraduate textbooks of theology begin from essentially traditional positions on the Bible, doctrine, authority, interpretation, and God. What makes Philip Kennedy's book both singularly important and uniquely different is that it has a completely new starting-point. The author contends that traditional Christian theology must extensively overhaul many of its theses because of a multitude of ... Read more
Philip Kennedy, here, offers the first book that any student - with or without religious convictions - can profitably use to get quickly to grips with the essentials of the Christian religion: its history and its key thinkers, its successes and its failures. Most existing undergraduate textbooks of theology begin from essentially traditional positions on the Bible, doctrine, authority, interpretation, and God. What makes Philip Kennedy's book both singularly important and uniquely different is that it has a completely new starting-point. The author contends that traditional Christian theology must extensively overhaul many of its theses because of a multitude of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
I. B. Tauris
Number of pages
300
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781845110093
SKU
V9781845110093
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About Philip Kennedy
Philip Kennedy is a member of the Faculty of Theology in the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Mansfield College. He is the author of a much-praised volume on the theology of Edward Schillebeeckx.
Reviews for A Modern Introduction to Theology: New Questions for Old Beliefs
Kennedy has a genuine passion to discover a Christianity which can proclaim truth. A Modern Introduction to Theology can serve as the principal textbook for introductory student courses in theology and doctrine, the history of Christianity, church history and philosophy of religion. - Diarmaid N J MacCulloch, Professor of the History of the Church, University of Oxford. It is ... Read more