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Etat : Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paper Back. Etat : Very Good. SCM Press, 1971. Very light cover wear, firm binding, pristine text.

Etat : Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Soft cover. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition. ***FREE SHIPPING STANDARD IN U.S.*** Paperback. Condition: FINE. Pages crisp and clean. No markings. May have slight wear on cover. Spine stiff. Excellent condition.

Softcover. 127 p.; 18.5 cm. (SCM book club. Study project ; 3 [whole no. 188]) Contents: Foreword -- 1 Varieties of interpretation -- 2 Critics at work -- 3 The world of the wise -- 4 Memories of the past -- 5 Problems of the present -- 6 Hopes for the future -- 7 What about the Old Testament? -- For further reading -- Index. -- `The historical consciousness which has now become our possession brings with it also the realization that events, meanings, values in the historical world are all relative. We can see how religious and philosophical beliefs, ethical and cultural values, though considered unconditionally true by those who held them, are in fact rooted in and conditioned by the experience of individual human beings, societies and cultures flourishing at particular times and under particular circumstances. We recognize, too, if we are sufficiently aware, the same influences on ourselves. .we may at least ask whether the canonization of the Bible was, in this setting, itself an absolute. And put in that way, the question cannot readily be given an affirmative answer. But were they given the right status? As we saw in the first chapter, the Christian Church took over the Jewish Bible without any questioning of this sort at all. But was it correct in doing so? Was not the Jewish conception of the character of the Old Testament perhaps responsible for leading the Church in a direction which it should not have taken?' (p. 115 f.) VG, sewn, in orig. red and purple wrapper. …

Softcover. Etat : VG in orig. maroon wrapper. 190 p.; 18.5 cm. Section headings: 1 Theology of the word of God: Karl Barth -- 2 Existentialism and beyond: Rudolf Bultmann, Paul Tillich (on Martin Buber) -- 3 Roman Catholic theology: Karl Rahner, Eduard Schillebeeckx, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin -- 4 Science and secularization: C. F. von Weizsacker, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Cornelis van Peursen -- 5 Theology and analytic philosophy: R. B. Braithwaite; parables: John Wisdom (the garden), Basil Mitchell (the stranger), John Hick (the road) -- 6 Comments and reactions: H. D. Lewis, David Jenkins, John Macquarrie. -- `.we have tried to be particularly careful in indicating the importance of history, even in systematic theology. All the passages here were published since the end of the Second World War, but the issues they discuss go back a long way.' (p. 13).…

Softcover. 124 p.; 18.5 cm. (SCM book club. Study project ; 10 [whole no. 195]) `I have ignored the fact that Christianity is, through the churches, in so fragmented a state. I have ignored, too, the fact that substantial groups would answer the question `Who is a Christian?' in quite a specific way, in terms of definite answers, definite actions, definite commitments. I do not believe that there are any such definite answers to be had.' -- `Explor- ation and journeying: held side by side each stresses an important part of Christian faith. Exploration points tothe need to be honest and open in our search for knowledge & understanding;journeying tothe need to be committed, to the faith and hope that what we do with our life is not only to discover more about ourselves and the world around us, but to grow with all that we are and do towards a fulfilment which lies beyond what we can see.'-- `I do not propose togo into much detail aboutthese moments of personal encounter; they do not go into words very readily.Either you willknow what I am trying to talk about or not.Our natural tendency is to be slightly embarrassed and reticent about talking about them too much,as if we had been somehow caught naked,or as if they were so fragile that we might damage them. If the first of these feelings means that we push our flashes of deeper understanding on one side and do nothing about them, let them have no effect on the rest of our lives, then we are turning our back on the centre of our humanness; but the second reaction seems a right one. For if an attempt is made to force intimacy, to probe too deeply at the wrong time, to improve upon it, the result can be an unbearable invasion of privacy, which we must have.' VG, sewn, in orig. green wrapper.…

Softcover. Etat : VG in orig. red wrapper. [9], 85 p.; 19.5 cm. (SCM book club ; 235) `And here we come to the crux of the matter. For this all too brief discussion of the way in which we might attempt to make sense for our own time of the Bible, of Jesus, of Christian doctrine, points in each case to the same basic question. How do we make use of the past in terms of the present? How can the past speak to us meaningfully in our own very different age? The trouble with the church seems to be that it expects the use of the Bible as a document with a direct message for us today to be effective without very much further thought; that it expects the Jesus of the first century to speak directly to the world of our time, that it expects Christian doctrine hammered out in the period before the scientific revolution to express the essential truth of our mysterious universe. And it gets very worried indeed if anyone hints that this is not the case.' (p. 52 f.) -- If the church really does seem to persist regardless in being so blind and so unyielding and so unloving by virtue of the rigidity of its structures and the consequences of its often thoughtless doctrines, must there not inevitably come a point when the arguments for continuing to remain a formal member of it lose their force? In that case, surely the only honest and consistent course is to leave it, and out of solidarity with those others for whom it will not care, go permanently into the wilderness and see whether, against the odds, the age-old hopes of the prophets might again find their beginnings there.' (p. 81).…

Softcover. 124 p.; 18.5 cm. (SCM centrebooks : six Christians [whole no. 201]) Contents: Preface -- 1 Profile -- 2 Prophet -- 3 Professor -- 4 Politician -- 5 Patriarch -- 6 Problem -- For further reading -- Index. -- From a laid in review by John Macquarrie:"The book is biographical in form and presents a vivid picture of Barth as a human being. His enormous capacity for work, his disciplined devotion to theology, his wit and grace, his stubborn onesidedness, his courtesy to students, his inability to listen to other theologians - these and other qualities are portrayed fairly but always sympathetically. Mr. Bowden sees the heart of Barth's theology in his discovery ofthe meaning of God.`Barth's contribution has been constantly to stress that God is God', and we find such phrases as `a towering conception of God' and `the utter Godness of God.'. The controversial and puzzling topic of Barth and politics is very perceptively handled. Barth's interest in socialism in his early years, his opposition to the Nazis and his elusive attitudes during the `Cold War' are explored. Berth emerges as a figure who was never afraid to take an unpopular stand on public issues, but what is less clear is the relation of his theology to some of these stands and its usefulness as a guide to the Christian in matters political. There are many things which he finds to criticize in Barth - his isolation from other theological approaches, his depreciation of the `natural', his apparent indifference to problems of historical criticism - in general, his theological `triumphalism'. But Mr. Bowden also believes that so long as questions of Christian theology are asked, Barth's work will be studied." VG, sewn, in orig. illus. citron wrapper.…

Paperback. Etat : Very Good-. First Edition. Except for small stay ink mark on page 15, text is clean. Cover shows normal shelfwear, light sunning to spine. States First Published in 1969. ; S. C. M. Centrebooks; 127 pages.

Etat : New.

Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. S.C.M. Press, London, 1969. paperback. 127 pages sundading to spine and tanning to extreme page edges Otherwise covers and inside in VERY GOOD CLEAN TIGHT READING ORDER. Full refund if not satisfied. 24 hour despatch.

Etat : As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Etat : Poor. Edgeworn softcover with light scuffs & scratches. Faint marks to the edges of the textblock. Writing on the half title page. Pencil underlining/marks in the page margins. Content remains good & clear to read.

Etat : New.

Etat : As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Etat : Very Good.

Tankobon Hardcover. Etat : Brand New. Japanese language. 8.27x5.91x1.42 inches. In Stock.

Etat : Minor rubbing. VG. orig.boards Minor rubbing. VG. 26x18cm, xli,1364 pp.