The Christian fact and modern doubt
Subtitle: a preface to a restatement of Christian faith
By: George Arthur Buttrick
Publisher: C. Scribner
Published: 1934
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: Religion and science; Apologetics; Skepticism
Notes: "Notes": pages 287-301.
Table of contents: title: Life-and the Doubter; title: Doubting Thomas ; The Dilemma of the Doubter ; Doubt-and "That One Face" ; "See the Christ Stand!" ' Inwrought Faith; title: Doubts in the Modern Mind; title: The Worldwide Flood of Doubt ; Faith and the New Science ; Has the Church been a Blind Guide? ; Faith and the New Psychology; title: The Practical Roots of Doubt; title: Scepticism and Conduct ; Economics and Doubt ; War and Doubt ; How False Practice Breeds Misgiving; title: Is God Real?; title: Present-day Denials ; Is God a "Projection"? Faith and Humanism ; The Coercion of Reality ; Is God Personal? ; The Witness of Experience; title: God-And the Tragic Sense of Life; title: "This Ambiguous Earth" ; Beams of Light across a Mystery ; Christianity Gives Reasons Through Power ' The Ultimate Instance; title: The Finality of Jesus; title: He is the World's Astonishment ; Beleaguering Questions ; Jesus in Evolution ; Jesus and the Machine Age ; Is He the Clue to Reality? ; Jesus in the Experience of Men ; His Authority; title: The Authority of the Bible; title: What Has Happened to the Bible ; The Alteration in Bible Theory ; The Bane of Bibliolatry ; What is the Bible? ; The Real Authority of Scripture; title: The Validity of Prayer; title: Prayer and the Average Man ; Jesus and Prayer ; Contemporary Doubts ; Practical Besetments ; Prayer's Gifts and Graces ; The Meaning of Prayer; title: The Cross-And To-Day; title: The Strange Persistence of the Cross ; The Revealings of True Martyrdom ; The Cross as Vital Clue to the Nature of God ; The Cross as Practical Wisdom ; The Cross as Redemption from Unworthiness; title: Life Beyond Life; title: "If a Man die" ; "Otherworldliness"? ' Science and Immorality ; Some Grounds for the Faith ; Jesus and Immortality ; The Nature of the Hereafter ; An "If"-and Our Courage.