Confessing the faith yesterday and today
Subtitle: essays reformed, dissenting, and catholic
By: Alan P.F. Sell
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Eugene, Oregon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9781620325940
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Religious tolerance; Faith; Christian union; Religious Dissenters; Reformed Church; Creeds
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Confessing the faith in context --; title: ch. 1. Confessing the faith and confessions of faith --; title: ch. 2. Varieties of English Separatist and dissenting writings, 1558-1689 --; title: ch. 3. Separatists and Dissenters amidst the arguments for and against toleration : some soundings, 1550-1689 --; title: ch. 4. Christianity, secularism, and toleration: liberal values and illiberal attitudes --; title: ch. 5. The use, abuse, and relevance of religion : some reflections on Professor Abraham van de Beek's proposal --; title: ch. 6. Confessing the faith in the intellectual context --; title: Part II. Confessing the faith ecclesially and hopefully --; title: ch. 7. Calvin's challenges to the twenty-first-century church : reflections on the 500th anniversary of Calvin's birth --; title: ch. 8. Rectifying Calvin's ecclesiology : the doctrinal and ecumenical importance of Separatist-congregational catholicity --; title: ch. 9. Receiving from other Christian communions and overcoming the hindrances thereto : some reformed reflections --; title: ch. 10. Eschatology : historical fluctuations and perennial practical importance --; title: ch. 11. Confessing the faith in systematic theology? The locus and authority of revelation vis à vis systematic method : an epilogue cheerful in style, serious in intent.