Charles Van Ness,Donald F. A collection of essays in which Peter Kreeft examines the fundamental elements of Christianity and Catholicism and their relation to everyday life.
This, for the Christian, is great news. When we become acquainted with the legacy of our Christian heritage, we connect our stories to those of the faithful believers who have come before us.
This connection is precisely what Nathan Busenitz, Dean of Faculty and professor of church history at The Master's Seminary, seeks to provide.
Based on the bestselling Fundamentals of the Faith, Forerunners of the Faith outlines the biblical orthodoxy that characterizes the true church. Busenitz succinctly identifies thirteen key lessons that capture the trials and triumphs of the historical Church, providing insights for how the ancient Christians responded to the problems of their day to become the pillars of faith we now consider them to be.
Learn how your faith stands on the shoulders of giants like Athanasius, Augustine, and Wycliffe. This book offers more information about doctrines than many other books written for laymen, but it is concise and simple in its presentation. Everyone who wants to understand his beliefs will find it helpful, a book to read through and one to refer to again and again. A must read for new and old believers alike. Far too often Christians lack discipleship and the basics of the faith that we as believers, so strongly need.
This work takes the reader through the basics of the Christian faith. From the Word itself, through the Trinity, persons of the Godhead, gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit, then on to Spiritual Warfare and culminating in our place as believers in the kingdom of God. Developed initially as a small group bible study, the book can be used for individual study and growth, a small group, or a source for extended teaching on the fundamentals of our faith.
Download Fundamentals of the faith book written by Peter H. The text is intended for use either as a companion volume in private study of the Bible, or as a textbook for Bible classes and other study groups.
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Author : Diane S. Author : C. In the Bible Institute of Los Angeles reprinted the set in four volumes under the editorship of evangelist R. Although these books are strongly associated with the fundamentalist movement, to which they gave their name, they are for the most part not guilty of the extremism that has come to mark that movement. Evangelical Christians can read them nearly years later and see in them a moderate and rational statement of the basics of the faith. The Fundamentals was written in the years leading up to World War I, when Germany was unquestionably the intellectual hot-spot of the planet.
Modern physics was emerging in the hands of Germans such as Einstein and Heisenberg and a new science of psychology was being promoted by Sigmund Freud. Before the final volume of The Fundamentals was complete, Germany would be the villain in a desperate war with Europe. And out of Germany was coming a steady stream of very influential liberal theological thought, much of it under the banner of " Higher Criticism ," that brought into question the core doctrine on which the church has stood for millenia.
And it was doing so in the name of science. This was seen as a very real threat, a "clear and present danger" to the souls of the faithful. As Franklin Johnson concludes in one of the essays:. The natural view of the Scriptures is a sea which has been rising higher for three-quarters of a century. Many Christians bid it welcome to pour lightly over the walls which the faith of the church has always set up against it, in the expectation that it will prove a healthful and helpful stream.
It is already a cataract, uprooting, destroying, and slaying. The main danger, of course, was from the German liberal theology, but it was made more frightening by the growing sense of danger from Germany in general. Now this in itself is most laudable. It is indispensable For hypothesis-weaving and speculation, the German theological professor is unsurpassed. One of the foremost thinkers used to lay it down as a fundamental truth in philosophical and scientific enquiries that no regard whatever should be paid to the conjectures or hypotheses of thinkers, and quoted as an axiom the great Newton himself and his famous words, "Non fingo hypotheses": I do not frame hypotheses.
It is notorious that some of the most learned German thinkers are men who lack in a singular degree the faculty of common sense and knowledge of human nature The Fundamentals remains, however, as far more than a reactionary document from a difficult point in history. It is, as its subtitle says, a "testimony to the truth.
The ninety essays were written by a wide range of authors, mainly from the United States, but also a large contingent from Canada and Britain. Most are theologians, most have higher degrees, and most are men there is at least one woman author.
The essays are not strictly arranged, in part because of the way that they were issued as a series of tracts.
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