The Sense of the Presence of God Gifford Lectures, 1961-2

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: London Oxford University Press 1962Description: 269pDDC classification:
  • N26 B158
Partial contents:
KNOWLEDGE AND CERTITUDE How much do we know? The defectibility of our thinking A transfusion of certitude Knowledge of truth and knowledge of reality THE REALLY REAL Things seen Our ultimate concern The challenge of subjectivity A narrow empiricism The things whereof we are surest The test of reality God and my neighbour THE RANGE OF OUR EXPERIENCE A reductive naturalism Non-inferential knowledge Non-sensuous perception THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL STATUS OF FAITH Reasoning things out Hypothesis and verification How theological statements are verified Or falsified How faith is lost Is it ever completely lost? Some of its vestigial forms THE NATURE AND OFFICE OF THEOLOGICAL STATEMENTS Faith as apprehension and response The characterization of theological statements Aquinas to Kant In the nineteenth century . And among contemporary thinkers ANALOGY AND SYMBOL PW Analogia entis 113 A two-way traffic 122 THE FRAME OF REFERENCE Religious Knowledge as practical and regulative 130 The Way 132 A way of thinking and a way of acting 140 The new age and the new humanity 144 MEANING AND RELEVANCE Meaning and use 149 Relevance 153 Relevance and truth 157 Dogma and speculation 161 FAITH AND THE FAITHS Lord Gifford`s purpose 168 Natural theology and natural religion 169 The religion of pagans according to Calvin ¿ 174 According to Dr Earth 177 And according to Dr Kraemer 182 Comparison and criticism of these views 186 SALVATION IN A NAME The Name 189 Salvation 195 None other name 199 The `scandal of particularity` 204 But why this name? 209 PROVIDENCE The principle of complementarity 213 The principle of indeterminacy 218 Providence, chance and coincidence 224 GRACE AND GRATITUDE Fear and love. Worship and service 231 Gratitude for grace the dominant note of Christian worship 236 And the mainspring of Christian service 241 The guidance thus provided 243 The wider witness of gratitude 248 RETROSPECT
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KNOWLEDGE AND CERTITUDE How much do we know? The defectibility of our thinking A transfusion of certitude Knowledge of truth and knowledge of reality THE REALLY REAL Things seen Our ultimate concern The challenge of subjectivity A narrow empiricism The things whereof we are surest The test of reality God and my neighbour THE RANGE OF OUR EXPERIENCE A reductive naturalism Non-inferential knowledge Non-sensuous perception THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL STATUS OF FAITH Reasoning things out Hypothesis and verification How theological statements are verified Or falsified How faith is lost Is it ever completely lost? Some of its vestigial forms THE NATURE AND OFFICE OF THEOLOGICAL STATEMENTS Faith as apprehension and response The characterization of theological statements Aquinas to Kant In the nineteenth century . And among contemporary thinkers ANALOGY AND SYMBOL PW Analogia entis 113 A two-way traffic 122 THE FRAME OF REFERENCE Religious Knowledge as practical and regulative 130 The Way 132 A way of thinking and a way of acting 140 The new age and the new humanity 144 MEANING AND RELEVANCE Meaning and use 149 Relevance 153 Relevance and truth 157 Dogma and speculation 161 FAITH AND THE FAITHS Lord Gifford`s purpose 168 Natural theology and natural religion 169 The religion of pagans according to Calvin ¿ 174 According to Dr Earth 177 And according to Dr Kraemer 182 Comparison and criticism of these views 186 SALVATION IN A NAME The Name 189 Salvation 195 None other name 199 The `scandal of particularity` 204 But why this name? 209 PROVIDENCE The principle of complementarity 213 The principle of indeterminacy 218 Providence, chance and coincidence 224 GRACE AND GRATITUDE Fear and love. Worship and service 231 Gratitude for grace the dominant note of Christian worship 236 And the mainspring of Christian service 241 The guidance thus provided 243 The wider witness of gratitude 248 RETROSPECT

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