Name: Keeping The Faith
SKU: 9780800611002
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Keeping The Faith

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In 1889 eleven Oxford dons prepared a volume of essays aimed at expounding “the Christian Creed” in a manner that “put the Catholic faith into its right relation to modern intellectual and moral problems.” Since the publication of Lux Mundi, as the dons chose to call their work, humankind has witnessed a century of extraordinary, almost seismic explosions in knowledge (particularly in the natural sciences), communications, and destructive weaponry. These developments have, quite naturally, placed unusually challenging intellectual and practical demands upon the church of Christ. Therefore, the time is right for another interpretation of the “faith we have received,” a restatement of “its claim and meaning,” and a positive presentation of the “central ideas and principles” of Christian faith under the stimulus of contemporary thought in an effort to meet current problems.

The present volume represents a contribution to that task. It should not, however, be regarded as a revision of the original Lux Mundi. Rather Keeping the Faith honors the original project and its authors by attempting in its own time, as the original project did in its, a clarification of “faith’s apprehension of the everlasting gospel which is always needed for the gospel’s transmission to contemporaries and to the future.”

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SKU (ISBN): 9780800611002
ISBN10: 0800611004
Geoffrey Wainwright
Binding: Trade Paper
Published: January 2007
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers – 1517 Media

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