1st Edition

Testimony and Tradition Studies in Reformed and Dissenting Thought

By Alan P.F. Sell Copyright 2005
375 Pages
by Routledge

375 Pages
by Routledge

375 Pages
by Routledge

Internationally recognised for his scholarship in the philosophy of religion and Christian Doctrine, and for his ecclesiastical connections as former Theological Secretary of the Geneva-based World Alliance of Reformed Churches, the Reformed theologian Alan Sell has an established reputation amongst theologians, church and intellectual historians, ecumenists, and ministers of religion. This... Read more
Contents: Preface; Conservation and exploration in Christian theology; The worship of English Congregationalism; Telling the story: then and now; Doctrine, polity, liberty: what do Baptists stand for?; The life and thought of Henry Grove; Andrew Fuller and the Socinians; P.T. Forsyth as unsystematic systematician; What has P.T. Forsyth to do with Mercersburg?; A renewed plea for 'impractical' divinity; Reformed theology: whence and whither?; The Dissenting witness: yesterday and today; From Union to Church: autobiographical recollections of Congregational ecclesiology in the 1960s; Reminiscence, reflection, reassurance; Indexes.

Biography

Alan P.F. Sell