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INTRODUCTION
1. See Thomas Oden, Agenda for Theology (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1979), pp. 102, 95.
2. "Fundamentalism" and the Word of God (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1958), p. 177.
3. Roland Bainton, Here I Stand: A Life of Martin Luther (Nashville: Abingdon, 1978 reprint), p. 15.
4. Battle for the Mind: A Physiology of Conversion and Brainwashing (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1957), p. 146.
5. See Edward A. Dowey, Jr., A Commentary on the Confession of 1967 and an Introduction to "The Book of Confessions" (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1968), p. 40.
6. Christian Attitudes Toward War and Peace (Nashville: Abingdon, 1960), p. 64.
7. Christian Unity and Christian Diversity (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1975), pp. 10, 109.
8. "Instruction on Excommunication," in The Complete Writings of Menno Simons, trans. Leonard Verduin and ed. John C. Wenger (Scottdale, Pennsylvania: Herald Press, 1956), p. 962.
9. See "A Kind Admonition on Church Discipline," in Complete Writings, p. 413, and "A Clear Account of Excommunication," in Complete Writings, p. 483.
10. "Christian Scholarship and the Defence of the Faith," in What Is Christianity? (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1951), p. 130.
11. Avery Dulles, A History of Apologetics (New York: Corpus, 1971), p. 1.
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CHAPTER 1:
DEFINING THE FAITH INDUCTIVELY
1. The Church Trap (New York: Macmillan, 1968), p. 21.
2. Protestant-Catholic-Jew: An Essay in American Religious Sociology, revised edition (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1960), p. 84; see also p. 258.
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3. "America's Civil Religion: What It Is and Whence It Came," in American Civil Religion, ed. Russell E. Richey and Donald G. Jones (New York, Evanston, San Francisco, and London: Harper and Row, 1974), pp. 77-8).
4. Outlines of a Philosophy of Religion Based on Psychology and History (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1957), p. 131.
5. "The Proclamation of the Gospel in a Pluralistic World," in The Proclamation of the Gospel in a Pluralistic World: Essays on Christianity and Culture (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1973), p. 11.
6. The Faith of Modernism (New York: Macmillan, 1925), p. 13.
7. New Faith for Old: An Autobiography (New York: Macmillan, 1936), p. 106.
8. "The Essence of Christianity," in God and the Universe of Faiths: Essays in the Philosophy of Religion (London: Macmillan, 1973), p. 119.
9. Catholicism and Modernity: Confrontation or Capitulation? (New York: Seabury Press, 1979), p. 224.
10. Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, no date), p. 216.
11. Will Herberg, "The Strangeness of Faith," in Faith Enacted as History (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1976), p. 77.
12. "Mission and Humanization," in Mission Trends No.1: Crucial Issues in Mission Today, ed. Gerald H. Anderson and Thomas F. Stransky (New York: Paulist Press; and Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1974), p. 240.
13. Christian Unity and Christian Diversity (Introduction, note 7), pp. 24-5.
14. "Church Outside the Church," in The Truth Is Concrete, trans. Dinah Livingstone (New York: Herder and Herder, 1969), pp. 103, 105, 106.
15. On Being a Christian, trans. Edward Quinn (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1976), pp. 27-8.
16. See "Het wezen des Christendoms," in Verzamelde opstellen op het gebied van godsdienst en wetenschap (Kampen: J.H. Kok, 1921), p. 24.
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CHAPTER 2:
DEFINING THE FAITH IN HISTORY
1. Paul Tillich, A History of Christian Thought: From Its Judaic and Hellenistic Origins to Existentialism, ed. Carl E. Braaten (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968), pp. 33-4.
2. See The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries, trans. and ed. James Moffatt (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1962, reprint of the 1908 edition), p. 314.
3. Outlines of the History of Dogma, trans. Edwin Knox Mitchell
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(Boston: Beacon Press, 1957, reprint of the 1893 edition), pp. 58-9.
4. Progress of Dogma (Old Tappan, N.J.: Fleming H. Revell Company, no date), p. 55.
5. "Het wezen des Christendoms" (Ch. 1, n. 16), p. 29.
6. Christelijke wetenschap (Kampen: J.H. Kok, 1904), p. 88.
7. The Philosophy of Revelation (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1953), p. 227; see also p. 309.
8. Translation taken from Creeds of the Churches, revised edition, ed. John H. Leith (Atlanta: John Knox Press, 1973), p. 31.
9. See Orthodoxy (Garden City, N.Y.: Image Books, 1959, first published in 1908), pp. 100-1.
10. "Creed or Chaos?" in The Whimsical Christian (New York: Macmillan, 1978, first published in 1969 as Christian Letters to a Post-Christian World), p. 41.
11. "The Essence of Christianity," in God and the Universe of Faiths (Ch. 1, n. 8), pp. 113-14.
12. "The Development of the Concept of 'Orthodoxy' in Early Christianity," in Current Issues in Biblical and Patristic Interpretation: Studies in Honor of Merrill C. Tenney Presented by His Former Students, ed. Gerald F. Hawthorne (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1975), p. 47.
13. "Dogma," in A Handbook of Christian Theology: Definition Essays on Concepts and Movements of Thought in Contemporary Protestantism, ed. Marvin Halverson and Arthur A. Cohen (New York: New American Library, 1958), p. 80.
14. Translation taken from J.N.D. Kelly, The Athanasian Creed (London: Adam and Charles Black, 1964), pp. 17-20.
15. Agenda for Theology (Introduction, n. 1), pp. 86-7.
16. An Autobiography (London: Oxford University Press, 1939), p.
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CHAPTER 3:
REVELATION AND REASON
1. Reason and Life, trans. Kenneth S. Reid and Edward Sarmiento (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956), p. 157.
2. The Theology of the Early Greek Philosophers (London, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1967), p. 48.
3. The Theology of the Early Greek Philosophers, p. 164.
4. The Greeks and the Irrational (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1968), p. 218.
5. The Greeks and the Irrational, p. 185.
6. See Henri and H. A. Frankfort, "The Emancipation of Thought from Myth," in Before Philosophy: The Intellectual Adventures of Ancient Man, by Henri and H. A. Frankfort et al. (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1949), p. 262.
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7. Existentialism and Religious Liberalism (Boston: Beacon Press, 1962), pp. 59-60.
8. The Interpretation of Religion (New York and Nashville: Abingdon Press, no date), p. 75.
9. Varieties of Christian Apologetics (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1962), p. 22.
10. Varieties of Christian Apologetics, p. 95.
11. Quoted by David Cairns, "Natural Theology," in A Handbook of Christian Theology (Ch. 2, n. 13), p. 251.
12. "Conscience in a Pluralistic Society," in Ecumenical Dialogue at Harvard: The Roman Catholic-Protestant Colloquium, ed. Samuel H. Miller and G. Ernest Wright (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964), pp. 226-7.
13. Neoplatonism of the Italian Renaissance (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1935), p. 63.
14. Quoted by William J. Wolf, "Anglicanism and Its Spirit," in The Spirit of Anglicanism, ed. William J. Wolf (Wilton, Connecticut: Morehouse-Barlow, 1979), p. 144.
15. See his Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 2 volumes (New York: Dover Publications, 1959), Book IV, Chapter 19, pp. 428ff of Vol. II. On reason see especially p. 433.
16. Controversy: The Humanist/Christian Encounter (London: Pemberton Books, 1971), p. 82.
17. Christianity Not Mysterious (Stuttgart and Bad Cannstatt: Friedrich Frommann Verlag, 1964, reprint of the 1696 edition), p. 146.
18. Christianity Not Mysterious, p. 20, italics omitted.
19. Christianity Not Mysterious, pp. 34-5.
20. See Ramm, Varieties of Christian Apologetics, pp. 113, 123-4.
21. On Being a Christian (Ch. 1, n. 15), p. 31.
22. Marx Against the Marxists: The Christian Humanism of Karl Marx, trans. John Drury (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 1980), p. xi.
23. Moses Hadas, Humanism: The Greek Ideal and Its Survival (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1960), p. 123.
24. Controversy, p. 228.
25. Conversations with Luther: Selections from the Recently Published Sources of the Table Talk, ed. Preserved Smith and Herbert Percival Gallinger (New Canaan, Connecticut: Keats Publishing, 1979), p. 115.
26. "Instruction on Excommunication" (Introduction, n. 8), p. 961.
27. "Fundamentalism" and the Word of God (Introduction, n. 2), pp. 138, 161; see also p. 139.
28. Athens and Jerusalem, trans. Bernard Martin (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968), p. 255.
29. Athens and Jerusalem, pp. 280-1.
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30. Athens and Jerusalem, p. 282.
31. Athens and Jerusalem, p. 288.
32. Athens and Jerusalem, p. 398.
33. Critique: Its Nature and Function, trans. Henry J. Koren (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1967), pp. 152-3.
34. A Treatise of Human Nature, ed. L. A. Selby-Bigge (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1888), Part III, Book 2, Section 3, p. 415.
35. Concerning Scandals, trans. John W. Fraser (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1978), p. 12.
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CHAPTER 4:
REVELATION AND EXPERIENCE
1. On Religion: Addresses in Response to Its Cultured Despisers, trans. Terrence N. Tice (Richmond: John Knox Press, 1969), pp. 141-2.
2. Philosophie und Theologie bei Schleiermacher (Zollikon and Zurich: Evangelischer Verlag, 1947), pp. 124-5.
3. See The Idea of the Holy: An Inquiry into the Non-Rational Factor in the Idea of the Divine and Its Relation to the Rational, trans. John W. Harvey (New York: Oxford University Press, 1958), pp. 144, 145-6, 143.
4. E Voto Dordraceno: Toelichting op den Heidelbergschen Catechismus (Amsterdam: J.A. Wormser, 1892-95), Vol. III, p. 596.
5. "St. Paul's Use of the Argument from Experience," in Selected Shorter Writings of Benjamin B. Warfield, ed. John E. Meeter (Nutley, N.J.: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 1970-73), Vol. II, p. 150.
6. The Prescriptions Against the Heretics, in Classic Statements on Faith and Reason, ed. E.L. Miller (New York: Random House, 1970), p. 5.
7. "'Nature' as Norm in Tertullian, " in Essays in the History of Ideas (New York: Capricorn Books, 1960), p. 315.
8. Institutes of the Christian Religion, 2 vols., trans. Ford Lewis Battles and ed. John T. McNeill (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1960), 1.3.1.
9. Institutes, 1.5.1.
10. See Christian Faith: An Introduction to the Study of the Faith, trans. Sierd Woudstra (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1979), pp. 48-9.
11. See the Third and Fourth Heads of Doctrine, Article 4.
12. Our Reasonable Faith, trans. Henry Zylstra (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1977, reprint of the 1956 edition), p. 59.
13. The Philosophy of Revelation (Ch. 2, n. 7), p. 28.
14. See Biblical Theology: Old and New Testaments (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1948), pp. 31-2, 37ff.
15. Christian Faith, p. 48.
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16. Institutes, 4.14.18.
17. Religion and the Christian Faith (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, no date, first published in 1956), pp. 347, 342.
18. Christian Faith, p. 75.
19. "The Barmen Declaration," in Creeds of the Churches (Ch. 2, n. 8), p. 520.
20. Reformed Dogmatics (Grand Rapids: Reformed Free Publishing Association, 1966), p. 19.
21. "Heresy and Concession," in Selected Shorter Writings, Vol. II, p.677.
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CHAPTER 5:
SCRIPTURE AS REVELATION
1. The Faith of Modernism (Ch. 1, n. 6), pp. 54, 50.
2. See "The Modern Use of the Bible," in What Is Christianity? (Introduction, n. 10), pp. 193, 196.
3. "Fundamentalism" and the Word of God (Introduction, n. 2), p. 153.
4. "Inerrancy in Current Debate," in Beyond the Battle for the Bible (Westchester, Illinois: Cornerstone Books, 1980), p. 50.
5. See Harold Lindsell, The Battle for the Bible (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1976).
6. "Inerrancy in Current Debate," p. 38.
7. The Faith of Modernism, p. 47.
8. See Donald E. Miller, The Case for Liberal Christianity (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1981), p. 15.
9. Confessions of a Conservative Evangelical (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1974), p. 99.
10. I believe that in a significant sense the Bible is indeed a history book: see my book Reading the Bible as History (Burlington, Ontario: G.R. Welch, 1980), especially Chapters 1-3.
11. What Is Faith? (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1946), p. 241.
12. Article 6; the "Chicago Statement" is reproduced in Inerrancy, ed. Norman Geisler (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1979), see p. 495.
13. See Jack Rogers and Donald McKim, The Authority and Interpretation of the Bible: An Historical Approach (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1979), pp. 274ff.
14. Systematic Theology (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1979 reprint), Vol. I, p. 170.
15. I, x; see Creeds of the Churches (Ch. 2, n. 8), p. 196.
16. On Being a Christian (Ch. 1, n. 15), p. 81.
17. See Bonhoeffer's Letters and Papers from Prison, revised edition, ed. Eberhard Bethge (New York: Macmillan, 1967), pp. 144, 171-2.
18. See G. C. Berkouwer, A Half Century of Theology, trans. and
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ed. Lewis B. Smedes (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1977), p. 141.
19. Shaken Foundations: Theological Foundations for Missions (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1972), p. 2.
20. Institutes (Ch. 4, n. 8), 3.23.2.
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CHAPTER 6:
HISTORY AND TRADITION
1. "Areopagitica," in Areopagitica and Other Prose Works (London: J. M. Dent & Sons; and New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1927), p. 27.
2. "What Is Enlightenment?" in The Philosophy of Kant: Immanuel Kant's Moral and Political Writings, ed. Carl J. Friedrich (New York: Modern Library, 1949), pp. 132-3.
3. "What Is Enlightenment?" p. 132.
4. Infallible? An Inquiry, trans. Edward Quinn (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday), p. 210.
5. God, Man, and the Thinker: Philosophies of Religion (New York: Delta Books, 1962), p. 300.
6. The Spirit of Protestantism (London, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1961), see pp. 171ff.
7. The History of Skepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza, revised edition (Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 1979), p. 4; see also p. 16.
8. Tradition: Old and New (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1970), p. 74.
9. Progress of Dogma (Ch. 2, n. 4), p. 15.
10. "Fundamentalism" and the Word of God (Introduction, n. 2), p.
11. Orthodoxy (Ch. 2, n. 9), pp. 47-8.
12. Black Theology and Black Power (New York: Seabury Press, 1969), pp. 120, 121.
13. "A Black Man's View of Authority," in Erosion of Authority, ed. Clyde L. Manschreck (Nashville and New York: Abingdon Press, 1971), p. 91; see also Black Christian Nationalism: New Directions for the Black Church (New York: William Morrow & Company, 1972), pp. xvii-xix, xxxv-xxxvii.
14. "Beyond Eve and Mary," in New Theology No. 9, ed. Martin E. Marty and Dean G. Peerman (New York: Macmillan; and London: Collier-Macmillan, 1972), pp. 209, 225.
15. On this question see Henry Vander Goot, "Tota Scriptura: The Old Testament in the Christian Faith and Tradition," in Life Is Religion: Essays in Honor of H. Evan Runner, ed. Henry Vander Goot (St. Catharines, Ontario: Paideia Press, 1981), pp. 97-117.
16. The Spirit of Protestantism, p. 216.
17. The Spirit of Protestantism, p. 215.
18. "Is 'Scripture Alone' the Essence of Christianity?" in Biblical
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Authority, ed. Jack Rogers (Waco, Texas: Word Books, 1977), p. 119.
19. See Infallible?, pp. 181ff; see also The Church-Maintained in Truth: A Theological Meditation, trans. Edward Quinn (New York: Seabury Press, 1980).
20. The Infallibility Debate, ed. John J. Kirvan (New York, Paramus and Toronto: Paulist Press, 1971), p. 88.
21. The Two Horizons: New Testament Hermeneutics and Philosophical Description with Special Reference to Heidegger, Bultmann, Gadamer, and Wittgenstein (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1980), p. 314.
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CHAPTER 7:
PLURALISM AND DIVERSITY
1. "The Bible as Realistic Narrative," in Consensus in Theology? A Dialogue with Hans Küng and Edward Schillebeeckx, ed. Leonard Swidler (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1980), pp. 84, 81.
2. "Fundamentalism" and the Word of God (Introduction, n. 2), pp. 18, 19.
3. The Enlightenment: An Interpretation, Vol. I: The Rise of Modem Paganism (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1967), p. 163.
4. Protestant Faith and Religious Liberty: The Basis of Religious Freedom in Protestant Theology (Nashville and New York: Abingdon Press, 1967), p. 54.
5. "The Proclamation of the Gospel," (Ch. 1, n. 5), p. 2.
6. Protestant-Catholic-Jew (Ch. 1, n. 2), p. 85.
7. The New Polytheism (New York, Evanston, San Francisco, and London: Harper and Row, 1974), pp. 60, 27,4,28.
8. On this meaning of the term pluralism, see Society, State, and Schools: A Case for Structural and Confessional Pluralism, by Rockne McCarthy, Donald Oppewal, Walfred Peterson, and Gordon Spykman (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1981), especially pp. 51ff.
9. "Structural pluralism" is the term used in Society, State, and Schools (see note 8 above).
10. Matthew L. Lamb, History, Method and Theology: A Dialectical Companson of Wilhelm Dilthey's Critique of Historical Reason and Bernard Lonergan's Methodology (Missoula, Montana: Scholar's Press, 1978), p. xiii.
11. "The Encounter Between East and West in the Civilization of Our Time," in The Ecumenical Era in Church and Society: A Symposium in Honor of John A, Mackay, ed. Edward J. Jurji (New York: Macmillan, 1959), p. 98.
12. See "Religious Liberty and the Parable of the Tares," in Early and Medieval Christianity (Boston: Beacon Press, 1962), pp. 95, 106-7, 112-13.
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13. Call to Mission (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1970), p. 9.
14. "The Good Fight of Faith," in God Transcendent and Other Selected Sermons (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1949), p. 122.
15. A Letter Concerning Toleration, ed. Mario Montuori (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1963), pp. 15, 33.
16. "Particular Questions Within General Consensus," in Consensus in Theology, p. 35.
17. Catholicism and Modernity (Ch. 1, n. 9), pp. 110, 85.
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CHAPTER 8:
THEORY AND DISGREEMENT
1. Spinoza and the Rise of Liberalism (Boston: Beacon Press, 1958), p. 11.
2. See Paul J. Stern, C.G. Jung: The Haunted Prophet (New York: George Braziller, 1976), p. 105.
3. "An Autobiographical Study," trans. James Strachey, in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud (London: Hogarth Press and the Institute of Psycho-Analysis), Vol. XX (1959), p. 53.
4. The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, Vol. II (New York: Basic Books, 1955), p. 142.
5. "On the History of the Psycho-Analytic Movement," in The Standard Edition, Vol. XIV (1957), p. 43.
6. "On the History of the Psycho-Analytic Movement," p. 49.
7. See The Study of Theology, trans. Duane A. Priebe (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1978), pp. 2ff.
8. Progress of Dogma (Ch. 2, n. 4), pp. 12-13.
9. Reformed Dogmatics (Ch. 4, n. 20), p. 4.
10. The Christian Creeds: A Faith to Live By (Dayton, Ohio: Pflaum/Standard, 1973), p. 19.
11. Gereformeerde Dogmatiek (Kampen: J.H. Kok, 1928-30), Vol. II, p. 458.
12. "Christian Theology: Its Nature and Scope," in What Theologians Do, ed. F. G. Healey (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1971), pp. 20, 26.
13. See Deuteronomy 13:1-5; Jeremiah 28:5-9; Galatians 1:6-9; see also G. C. Aalders, De valsche profetie in Israel (Wageningen: J. Zomer Drukkerij "Vada," 1911), pp. 180-2.
14. On Being a Christian (Ch. 1, n. 15), pp. 446, 448, 581-2.
15. Does God Exist? An Answer for Today, trans. Edward Quinn (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1980), p. 115.
16. A History of Western Morals (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1959), p. 414.
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17. See Anthony Thiselton, The Two Horizons (Ch. 6, n. 21), pp. 304ff.
18. See Agenda for Theology (Introduction, n. 1), pp. 4�6, 37-40, 49-53, 56, 60-2, 116, 149, 158.
19. Agenda for Theology, pp. xii, 122.
20. Quoted by Ernest R. Sandeen in The Roots of Fundamentalism: British and American Millenarianism, 1800-1930 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1970), p. 115.
21. Quoted by Rogers and McKim, The Authority and Interpretation of the Bible (Ch. 5, n. 13), p. 276.
22. See Systematic Theology (Ch. 5, n. 14), Vol. I, p. 15.
23. Van de voleinding, Vol. I (Kampen: J.H. Kok, 1929), p. 137.
24. Introduction to Theology: An Invitation to Reflection on the Christian Mythos (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1976), pp. 177, 176.
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CHAPTER 9:
HERESY AND APOSTASY
1. "The 'Death of God' Theology -- And the Living God of the Bible," in Faith Enacted as History (Ch. 1, n. 11), pp. 170-1.
2. "The Nature of Heresy," in Storm over Ethics, by John C. Bennett et al. (Philadelphia: United Church Press, 1967), p. 130.
3. The Heretical Imperative: Contemporary Possibilities of Religious Affirmation (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press / Doubleday, 1979), pp. 30-1.
4. Heresies (Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1976), pp. 10, 1.
5. The Faith of Modernism (Ch. 1, n. 6), p. 64.
6. Heroes and Heretics: A Political History of Western Thought (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964), p. 51.
7. Walter Nigg, The Heretics, ed. and trans. Richard and Clara Winston (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962), p. 411.
8. American Religious Heretics: Formal and Informal Trials, ed. George A. Shriver (Nashville and New York: Abingdon Press, 1966), p. 15.
9. Heroes and Heretics, p. 5.
10. See my book Learning to Live with Evil (Burlington, Ontario: G.R. Welch; and Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1982), Chapter 5.
11. The Heretics, pp. 8, 11,409.
12. The Spirit of Protestantism (Ch. 6, n. 6), p. 128.
13. Heresy, Yes -- Conspiracy, No (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1973), pp. 21, 69, 70 (italicized in original).
14. See The Church, trans. Ray and Rosaleen Ockenden (London: Burns and Oates, 1968), pp. 248-9, 257; see also The Church -- Maintained in Truth (Ch. 6, n. 19), pp. 30-1.
15. Quoted by Malcolm Lambert, Medieval Heresy: Popular
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Movements from Bogomil to Hus (New York: Holmes & Meier, 1977), p. 4.
16. Conversations with Luther (Ch. 3, n. 25), pp. 206-7.
17. Concerning Scandals (Ch. 3, n. 35), p. 66.
18. Utopia: The Perennial Heresy (New York: Sheed and Ward, 1967), pp. 20-1.
19. E Voto Dordraceno (Ch. 4, n. 4), Vol. III, p. 606.
20. Gordon Leff, Heresy in the Later Middle Ages: The Relation of Heterodoxy to Dissent, c. 1250-c.-1450, Vol. I (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1967), pp. 1-2.
21. "Fundamentalism" and the Word of God (Introduction, n. 2), p.
22. "Heresy and Concession," in Selected Shorter Writings (Ch. 4, n. 5), Vol. II, p. 679.
23. The Case for Orthodox Theology (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1959), p. 13 (italicized in original).
24. The Bible, the Church and the Reason: The Three Great Fountains of Divine Authority (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1892), p. 37.
25. The Prescriptions Against the Heretics (Ch. 4, n. 6), pp. 3-4.
26. See "Heresy and Concession," pp. 677-9.
27. See De valsche profetie in Israel (Ch. 8, n. 13), pp. 54,58-61, 181.
28. No Other Name: The Choice Between Syncretism and Christian Universalism (London: SCM Press, 1963), pp. 90, 89.
29. See J.A.E. Vermaat, Christus of ideologie? Positie en keuze van kerken en christenen in een ideologische situatie (Utrecht: Uitgeverij "De Banier," 1977), pp. 6-7,11-12,16-17.
30. The Living of These Days: An Autobiography (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1956), pp. 245, 244.
31. Agenda for Theology (Introduction, n. 1), pp. 22, 24, 29.
32. "Secularism," in A Handbook of Christian Theology (Ch. 2, n. 13), p. 340.
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CHAPTER 10:
CONFESSIONAL UNITY
1. Freedom in the Church (Dayton, Ohio: Pflaum Press, 1969), p. 131.
2. Quoted from the back section of the Psalter Hymnal (Grand Rapids: Publication Committee of the Christian Reformed Church, 1959), p. 23.
3. See William J. Wolf, "Anglicanism and Its Spirit" (Ch. 3, n. 14), p. 165.
4. W.H. van de Pol, Anglicanism in Ecumenical Perspective
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(Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1965), p. 26.
5. Anglicanism, fourth edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 1978), pp. 387, 254.
6. "Anglicans and the Anglican Vocation," in Essays in Anglican Self-Criticism, ed. D.M. Paton (London: SCM Press, 1958), p. 223.
7. Modern Heresies (Greenwich, Connecticut: Seabury Press, 1961), p. 162.
8. The Integrity of Anglicanism (New York: Seabury Press, 1978), p.
9. The Church -- Maintained in Truth (Ch. 6, n. 19), pp. 28-9.
10. On Being a Christian (Ch. 1, n. 15), p. 410.
11. Doing Theology in a Revolutionary Situation (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1975), pp. 72, 90, 81.
12. New Faith for Old (Ch. 1, n. 7), pp. 288, 285.
13. The Faith of Modernism (Ch. 1, n. 6), p. 178.
14. What Is Faith? (Ch. 5, n. 11), pp. 39, 18, 23.
15. Om en om: Een bundel theologie en geloofsbezinning (Kampen: J.H. Kok, 1972), p. 50.
16. Heroes and Heretics (Ch. 9, n. 6), p. 429.
17. Lectures on Galatians (1535), in Luther's Works, Vol. 27, ed. Jaroslav Pelikan (Saint Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 1964), pp. 37, 41-2.
18. See Documents of the Christian Church, second edition, ed. Henry Bettensen (London, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1967), p. 201.
19. Commentaries on the First Twenty Chapters of the Book of the Prophet Ezekiel, trans. Thomas Myers, Vol. II (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1948), p. 8.
20. The Certainty of Faith, trans. Harry der Nederlanden (St. Catharines, Ontario: Paideia Press, 1980), p. 71.
21. The Interpretation of History (New York and London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1936), p. 34.
22. An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine (Westminster, Maryland: Christian Classics, 1968), pp. 29-30.
23. Progress of Dogma (Ch. 2, n. 4), p. 9.
24. The Myth of Christian Beginnings: History's Impact on Belief (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1971), pp. 160, 21.
25. Heretics (New York and London: John Lane, 1906), p. 286.
26. Catholiclsm and Modernity (Ch. 1, n. 9), p. 181.
27. "The Good Fight of Faith" (Ch. 7, n. 14), pp. 152, 151.
28. "The Issue in the Church," in God Transcendent (Ch. 7, n. 14), p.47.
29. Christianity and Liberalism (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1923), p. 7.
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30. "Problemen in de tolerantie-idee," in Theologisch werk (Nijkerk: G.F. Callenbach, 1969-73), Vol. IV, p. 173.
31. See Hendrik Kraemer, The Christian Message in a Non-Christian World (Grand Rapids: Kregel Publications, 1956, first published in 1938), p. 208.
32. "Theocratie en tolerantie (1956)," in Theologisch werk, Vol. I, p.215.
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CHAPTER 11:
THE CHALLENGE OF ECUMENISM
1. Progress, Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom (New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1968), p. 27.
2. See The Brothers Karamazov, trans. Constance Garnett, translation revised by Avrahm Yarmolinsky (New York: Heritage Press, 1961), Book V, Chapter 5, pp. 195-6.
3. The Social Sources of Denominationalism (Cleveland and New York: Meridian Books, 1957), p. 264.
4. No Other Name (Ch. 9, n. 28), p. 86.
5. Quoted by Hendrik Van Loon as the epigraph for his book Tolerance, revised edition (New York: Liveright Publishing, 1940).
6. On Being a Christian (Ch. 1, n. 15), p. 91; see also Does God Exist? (Ch. 8, n. 15), p. 627.
7. "Participation: The Changing Christian Role in Other Cultures," in Mission Trends No. 2: Evangelization, ed. Gerald H. Anderson and Thomas F. Stransky (New York: Paulist Press; and Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1975), p. 229.
8. On this Old Testament syncretism, see M.B. Van 't Veer, My God Is Yahweh: Elijah and Ahab in an Age of Apostasy, trans. Theodore Plantinga (St. Catharines, Ontario: Paideia Press, 1980), pp. 35ff, 209ff.
9. No Other Name, p. 89.
10. The Validity of the Christian Mission (New York, Evanston, San Francisco, and London: Harper and Row, 1972). p. 36.
11. The Christian Message in a Non-Christian World (Ch. 10, n. 31), pp. 146, 134-5.
12. The Christian Message, p. 119.
13. "The Christian in a Religiously Plural World," in Christianity and Other Religions, ed. John Hick and Brian Hebblethwaite (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1980), pp. 104-5, 91, 98.
14. The Problems of Theology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980), p. 150.
15. A History of Apologetics (Introduction, n. 11), p. 30.
16. Stromata, in Classic Statements on Faith and Reason (Ch. 4, n. 6), p. 13.
17. On Being a Christian, p. 113.
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18. The Christian Message, pp. 329, 332.
19. "Proclaiming the Inner Christ of Hinduism: An Interview with Paul Sudhakar," in Mission Trends No. 5: Faith Meets Faith, ed. Gerald H. Anderson and Thomas F. Stransky (New York: Paulist Press; and Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1981), p. 266.
20. The Validity of the Christian Mission, p. 33.
21. Quoted by A.F. Carillo de Albemoz, Roman Catholicism and Religious Liberty (Geneva: World Council of Churches, 1959), p. 25.
22. The Christian Message, pp. 206, 45-6.
23. See Harvey T. Hoekstra, The World Council of Churches and the Demise of Evangelism (Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House, 1979).
24. "Mission and Humanization" (Ch. 1, n. 12), pp. 241, 243.
25. Catholicism and Modernity (Ch. 1, n. 9), p. 182.
26. "Theocratie en tolerantie (1966)," in Theologisch werk (Ch. 10, n. 30), Vol. III, p. 176.
27. Pro Rege, of het Koningschap van Christus, Vol. III (Kampen: J.H. Kok, 1912), p. 311; see also p. 582.
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CHAPTER 12:
INSTITUTIONAL IDENTITY
1. Catholicism and Modernity (Ch. 1, n. 9), p. 34.
2. Robert M. MacIver, Academic Freedom in Our Time (New York: Gordian Press, 1968), pp. 3-4.
3. Ralph F. Fuchs, "Academic Freedom -- Its Basic Philosophy, Function, and History," in Academic Freedom and Tenure: A Handbook of the American Association of University Professors, ed. Louis Joughin (Madison, Milwaukee and London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1967), p.242.
4. "You Can't Tell a School by Its Name," Christianity Today (Nov. 4, 1977), p. 21.
5. See MacIver, Academic Freedom in Our Time, pp. 285-9.
6. Quoted by Walter P. Metzger in Academic Freedom in the Age of the University (New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1961), p. 126.
7. Heresy, Yes -- Conspiracy, No (Ch. 9, n. 13), p. 145.
8. See Peter Beyerhaus, "Mission and Humanization" (Ch. 1, n. 12), p. 239.
9. A Letter Concerning Toleration (Ch. 7, n. 15), pp. 7, 79.
10. Agenda for Theology (Introduction, n. 1), pp. 106-7.
11. A Letter Concerning Toleration, p. 29.
12. See Peter Hebblethwaite, The New Inquisition? Schillebeeckx and Küng (London: Collins, 1980), p. 43.
13. Article XVII, in Creeds of the Churches (Ch. 2, n. 8), pp. 306-7.
14. Free Speech in the Church (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood
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Press, 1981, reprint of the 1959 edition), p. 42.
15. "The Free Church Movement in Contemporary Catholicism," in New Theology No. 6, ed Martin E. Marty and Dean G. Peerman (New York: Macmillan; and London: Collier-Macmillan, 1969), pp. 273, 272.
16. "Is a New Christian Consensus Possible?" in Consensus in Theology.' (Ch. 7, n. 1), pp. 65, 68.
17. Free Speech in the Church, pp. 36-7, 38.
18. Tolerance (Ch. 11, n. 5), p. 232.
19. Agenda for Theology, p. 96.
20. Witch Hunt: The Revival of Heresy (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1950), p. 306.
21. See MacIver, Academic Freedom in Our Time, p. 158.
22. Article XXVI, in Creeds of the Churches, p. 275.
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CHAPTER 13:
DOCTRINAL AND ACADEMIC FREEDOM
1. See "Areopagitica" (Ch. 6, n. 1), p. 35.
2. "Academic Freedom," in Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, Vol. I (New York: Macmillan, 1937), p. 384.
3. "The Crisis of the University," in In Defense of Academic Freedom, ed. Sidney Hook (New York: Pegasus, 1971), pp. 103, 105.
4. Academic Freedom in Our Time (Ch. 12, n. 2), p. 17.
5. Academic Freedom in Our Time, p. 138.
6. Academic Freedom in the Age of the University (Ch. 12, n. 6), p. 92.
7. "Theology and the Reunion of the Churches," in The Truth Is Concrete (Ch. 1, n. 14), p. 29.
8. Nieuwe wegen, oude sporen, by J.H. Velema and W.H. Velema (Apeldoom: Uitgeverij Semper Agendo, no date), p. 102.
9. Eigentijdse verkondiging: Beschouwingen over de vertolking van het Evangelie in het taaleigen van de moderne mens (Kampen: J.H. Kok, 1967), p. 88.
10. Principles of Sacred. Theology, trans. J. Hendrik De Vries (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, reprint of the 1898 edition), p. 593; see also p.598.
11. Principles of Sacred Theology, pp. 588-9.
12. Principles, p. 591.
13. Principles, pp. 594, 596.
14. The Protestant Era, trans. James Luther Adams (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948), pp. 165, xii, 163.
15. See the back section of the Psalter Hymnal (Ch. 10, n. 2), p. 19.
16. Quoted by Jerome J. Langford, Galileo, Science and the Church, revised edition (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1971), p. 152.
17. Galileo, Science and the Church, p. 188.
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18. Does God Exist.? (Ch. 8, n. 15), p. 9.
19. The Johns Hopkins University (1876-1891), in Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science (Series IX), ed. Herbert Baxter Adams (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1891), p. 193.
20. "On Some Misconceptions Concerning Academic Freedom," in Academic Freedom and Tenure (Ch. 12, n. 3), p. 205.
21. See Shailer Mathews, New Faith for Old (Ch. 1, n. 7), p. 55.
22. "Academic Freedom and Professional Responsibilities," in The Ethics of Teaching and Scientific Research, ed. Sidney Hook, Paul Kurtz and Miro Todorovich (Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1977), p. 118.
23. On Christian Doctrine, trans. D.W. Robertson, Jr. (Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1958), Book II, Chapter 40, Section 60, p. 75.
24. On Being a Christian (Ch. 1, n. 15), p. 430.
25. Quoted from the Book of Confessions of the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, second edition (Philadelphia: Office of the General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, 1970).
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CHAPTER 14:
THE PLACE OF APOLOGETICS
1. A Passion for Truth: Hans Küng and His Theology (New York: Crossroad, 1981), p. 260.
2. Why Is Christianity True? (Chicago: Winona Publishing, 1905), p.4.
3. Lectures on Calvinism (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1961, reprint of the 1931 edition), p. 11.
4. Christianity and Liberalism (Ch. 10, n. 29), pp. 7-8.
5. "On the History of the Psycho-Analytic Movement" (Ch. 8, nn. 3 and 5), p. 58.
6. "Apologetics and History," in Life Is Religion (Ch. 6, n. 15), p. 130.
7. See John Passmore, A Hundred Years of Philosophy (Harmondsworth, England: Penguin Books, 1968), p. 61.
8. See Leslie Stevenson, Seven Theories of Human Nature (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1974), p. 7.
9. Ideology and the Ideologists (New York, Evanston, San Francisco, and London: Harper and Row, 1975), p. 104.
10. The Origins of Totalitarianism (Cleveland and New York: World Publishing, 1958), p. 470.
11. Gereformeerde Dogmatiek (Ch. 8, n. 11), Vol. I, p. 482.
12. E Voto Dordraceno (Ch. 4, n. 4), Vol. IV, p. 334.
13. Orthodoxy (Ch. 2, n. 9), p. 19.
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14. Orthodoxy, p. 28.
15. Gereformeerde Dogmatiek, Vol. I, pp. 479-80.
16. A History of Apologetics (Introduction, n. 11), p. xvi.
17. Institutes (Ch. 4, n. 8), Vol. I, p. 12; see also p. 9.
18. "Brunner as Apologist", in The Theology of Emil Brunner, ed. Charles W. Kegley (New York: Macmillan, 1962), pp. 292, 294.
19. "Brunner as Apologist," p. 296.
20. Encyclopaedie der Heilige Godgeleerdheid, revised edition, Vol. III (Kampen: J.H. Kok, 1909), p. 438.
21. The Rebirth of Ministry: A Study of the Biblical Character of the Church's Ministry (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, no date), p. 136.
22. "The Philosophy of Christian Evidences," in Jerusalem and Athens: Critical Discussions on the Philosophy and Apologetics of Cornelius Van Til, ed. E.R. Geehan (Nutley, N.J.: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Company, 1971), p. 425.
23. Gereformeerde Dogmatiek, Vol. I, p. 481; see also p. 33.
24. The Certainty of Faith (Ch. 10, n. 20), p. 22.
25. The Interpretation of Religion (Ch. 3, n. 8), p. 360.
26. Progress of Dogma (Ch. 2, n. 4), p. 38.
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POSTSCRIPT:
DO IDEAS MAKE A DIFFERENCE?
1. Heroes and Heretics (Ch. 9, n. 6), p. 347.
2. Heresy, Yes -- Conspiracy, No (Ch. 9, n. 13), p. 73.
3. Quoted by MacIver, Academic Freedom in Our Time (Ch. 12, n. 2), p. 3.
4. James Drever, A Dictionary of Psychology, revised by Harvey Wallerstein (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1964), p. 148.
5. The Principles of Psychology, Vol. II (New York: Dover Publications, 1950, reprint of the 1890 edition), pp. 449-50.
6. The German Ideology, ed. R. Pascal (New York: International Publishers, 1947), p. 15.
7. "Introduction," in The Form of Ideology: Investigations into the Sense of Ideological Reasoning with a View to Giving an Account of Its Place in Political Life, ed. D.J. Manning (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1980), p. 3.
8. "The Crime of Menticide," in The American Journal of Psychiatry, Vol. 107 (February 1951), p. 595; see also "Brainwashing and Menticide," in Identity and Anxiety: Survival of the Person in Mass Society, ed. Maurice Stein, Arthur J. Vidich and David Manning White (New York: Free Press, 1960), pp. 506-20.
9. See The Rape of the Mind (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1961), pp. 14, 96, 140, 149, 164, 240, 263, 281, 294ff.
10. The Rape of the Mind, p. 303.
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11. See H.S. Holland, The Apostolic Fathers (London: S.P.C.K., no date), p. 194.
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Aalders, G.C., 101
academic freedom, 127, 130ff, 138, 140ff
Adler, Alfred, 86
Anabaptism, 12-13, 134-5, 137
Anaxagoras, 40
Anglicanism, 106-7, 138-9
Anonymous Christ and Christians, 21-4, 122, 124
Anselm, 63
Apollinarianism, 29-30
apologetics, 13-14, 117, 15lff
apostasy, 14, 86, 94ff
Apostles' Creed, 29, 90, 105
Aquinas, 41-4
Arendt, Hannah, 153
Arianism, 30
Aristotle, 40-2, 122
Arminianism, 104, 125
art, 49
Athanasian Creed, 30, 32-3, 88
Athanasius, 30, 32
atheism, 45
Augustine, 63, 98, 136, 139, 148, 156
autonomy, 103, 130, 149
Baillie, John, 41, 159
Bainton, Roland, 10-11, 82
Barmen Declaration, 54
Barth, Karl, 21, 46, 61, 158
Bavinck, Herman, 23, 29, 52, 88, 110, 153-5, 159
Belgic Confession, 145
Berger, Peter, 95-6
Berkhof, Hendrikus, 52-4
Beyerhaus, Peter, 21, 124, 132
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 61
brainwashing (see menticide and brainwashing)
Brauer, Jerald C., 103
Briggs, Charles A., 100
Brinton, Crane, 90-2
Brown, Robert McAfee, 65, 71, 97
Bruce, F.F., 66
Brunner, Emil, 46, 157-8
Bultmann, Rudolf, 58, 70
Butler, Joseph, 44, 48
Calvin and Calvinism, 13, 21, 45, 47, 51, 53, 62-3, 74, 83, 92, 98, 104, 109-10, 125-7, 137, 145, 155-7
Canons of Dort, 52
Carnell, Edward J., 100
Catholicism, 10, 13, 41-2, 69, 71-2, 112, 130-1, 135, 145
Chesterton, G.K., 30-1,67, 113, 154, 160
Chicago, University of, 147
Christ and Christology, 29-34, 58, 70, 101-2, 124ff
church, views of, 17,21-3,25,89, 116, 135-6, 138, 147-8
civil religion, 16
Cleage, Albert J., Jr., 68
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Clement of Alexandria, 28, 122
collectivism, 78, 129
Collingwood, R.G., 34
Commager, Henry Steele, 141
common ground, 37-74
Cone, James, 68
conscience, 49-50
Council of Trent, 71
creeds (see doctrine and dogma)
definition, 16ff, 26�{
development of doctrine, 31, 112
dialectic, 97
Docetism, 29
doctrine and dogma, 25, 29, 31, 56, 87-90, 100, 105, 109ff, 125ff, 132, 140ff, 162
Dodds, E.R., 40
Donatism, 139
Dooyeweerd, Herman, 78-9
Dordrecht Confession of Faith, 134
Dostoevsky, Fyodor, 118
Dulles, Avery, 14, 122, 155
Dunham, Barrows, 96, 108-9, 162
Ebeling, Gerhard, 87
ecumenism and unity, 22, 26, 104ff, 118ff, 164
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 16-17
Eliot, Charles William, 131
Enlightenment, 61-2, 64-5, 76-7, 90-2, 102-3, 114, 129-30
Erasmus, 13
excommunication, 12-13, 19, 85-6, 134-5
experience, 48ff, 73
false teachers, 21, 24, 26, 82, 101
feminism, 68
Feuer, Lewis, 85-6, 153
Ficino, Marsilio, 42
Flückiger, Felix, 49
Forell, George W., 20, 77, 79
Fosdick, Harry Emerson, 102-3
Frankfort, Henri and H.A., 40
free associations, 26, 117, 129ff
Free University of Amsterdam, 148
Freud and psychoanalysis, 86-7, 122, 152
Fuchs, Ralph F., 130
fundamentalism, 20, 56, 67
Gadamer, H.G., 91
Galileo, 145-6
Gandhi, M.K., 123-4
Gay, Peter, 77
general revelation, 37ff, 48, 50-4, 56, 155
Gilman, Daniel Coit, 146
Gnosticism, 27-9, 71, 166
Grosseteste, Robert, 98
Hadas, Moses, 44
Harnack, Adolf, 27-8
Harvard University, 131
Hawton, Hector, 43-5
Hayward, John F., 40-1
Healey, F.G., 88
Hebblethwaite, Brian, 121
Hegel, G.W.F., 21-2, 92, 97, 113, 128, 148
Heidegger, Martin, 19
Heidelberg Catechism, 87, 90, 105, 132
Hellwig, Monika, 87
Heraclitus, 40
Herberg, Will, 16, 77, 95
Herbert of Cherbury, 42, 50
heresy, 9, 13, 16,31,54-5,64, 72, 75-116, 136ff, 144, 158
hermeneutics, 91
Herzog, Arthur, 16
Hick, John, 20, 31
Hinduism, 123-4
historicism, 34, 73, 79-80, 82, 113
Hitchcock, James, 20, 84, 114, 124-5, 130
Hitler, Adolf, 11, 20, 54
Hodge, Charles, 60, 93
Hoeksema, Herman, 54, 87
Hoekstra, Harvey T., 124
Hook, Sidney, 97-8, 131, 147, 162
Humanism, 14, 26-7,44-5,101, 103, 124, 146, 149
Hume, David, 47
Husserl, Edmund, 92
Huxley, Thomas H., 162
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ideology, 153, 163-4
incarnation, doctrine of, 42
individualism, 78, 92, 104, 129-30
indoctrination, 131
infallibility, 58-60, 71-2
Inquisition, 136-7, 157
institutions (see free associations)
interpretation of Scripture, 31,42-3, 56ff, 65ff, 75, 90, 94, 122, 142-3
Islam, 10, 29, 101, 124
Jaeger, Werner, 40
Jager, Okke, 142
James, William, 163
Jennings, Theodore W., Jr., 93
Johns Hopkins University, 146, 162
Jones, Ernest, 86
Judaism and Jews, 20, 27-8, 78
Jung, Carl Gustav, 86, 152
Justin Martyr, 122, 125
Kant, Immanuel, 44, 46, 64, 92
Kennedy, Gerald, 95
King James Bible, 60
Knudsen, Robert, 152
Kraemer, Hendrik, 53, 80, 116, 120-1, 123-4
Kraft, Robert A., 32
Krumm, John M., 106
Kuitert, H.M., 108
Küng, Hans, 23, 44, 61, 65, 72, 90, 98, 107, 119, 122, 134, 146, 149-50
Kuyper, Abraham, 49, 78-9, 93, 98-9, 127-8, 143-5, 152, 154, 159
Kwant, Remy, 47
Lamb, Matthew L., 79
Lange, C.G., 163
Langford, Jerome J., 145-6
Lawrence, John W., 106
Leff, Gordon, 99
Leibniz, 155
Lessing, G.E., 61
Lewis, C.S. 160
liberation, 34, 62, 149-50
Lindbeck, George, 76
Lindsell, Harold, 57
Locke, John, 43, 83, 133-4
Lovejoy, Arthur, 50, 138, 140
Luther and Lutheranism, 10-11, 13, 34, 45, 62, 65, 67, 74, 83, 91, 98, 104, 106, 109-10, 125-7
Machen. J. Gresham, 13, 56-7, 59, 83, 108, 114-15, 152
Machlup, Fritz, 146
MacIver, Robert, 141
Macquarrie, John, 11-12, 22
Manning, D.J., 163-4
Marcion, 26
Marias, Julian, 38
Marx and Marxism, 21, 44, 122, 124, 128, 163
Mathews, Shailer, 20, 56-8, 96, 108
Maxey, Margaret, 68
McSorley, H.J., 72-3
McWilliams, Carey, 138
Meerloo, Joost, 165-6
menticide and brainwashing, 165-6
Metzger, Walter, 141
Miguez Bonino, José, 107
Mill, John Stuart, 133
Miller, David L., 78
Milton, John, 64, 140
Miranda, Jose Porfirio, 44
modernity and modernism, 20-1, 34, 56, 91-2, 97,102-3, 108, 114-16, 119, 129-30, 146
Molnar, Thomas, 98-9
Mormonism, 29, 101
Mullins, Edgar Y., 151-2
mysticism, 154
natural theology (see general revelation) nature, 50
Neill, Stephen, 82-3, 106
Newman, John Henry, 112-13
Niebuhr, H. Richard, 118-19
Nigg, Walter, 96-7
nominalism, 20-1, 24
Nowell, Robert, 151
Oden, Thomas, 9, 33, 91-2, 103, 133, 137
Origen, 28, 122
Orosius, 156
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Orr, James, 28, 66, 87, 112-13, 160
orthodoxy, 30-3, 64, 75-116, 124 orthopraxis, 106ff, 124, 164
Otto, Rudolf, 49
Packer, James I., 9-10,45, 57, 66, 76, 100
Parmenides, 40
Patton, Francis L., 93
Pavlov, Ivan, 165
Pelikan, Jaroslav, 32
philosophy, 18-19, 24, 39-42,46-7, 86, 89, 100, 149, 160-1, 163
Pico dell a Mirandola, 42
Pinnock, Clark, 159
Plato and Platonism, 18, 28, 40-3, 122
Plotinus, 122
pluralism, 11-12, 75ff, 85, 104, 106, 129, 135-6, 153, 164-5
Polycarp, 166
Popkin, Richard, 65
praeparatio evangelica, 122-3
pragmatism, 163-4
preaching, 89-90, 111-12, 133-4, 144
Presbyterianism, 11, 141, 147
pride, 45, 62, 98
Princeton Seminary, 92-3
Protestantism, 10, 61, 65-7, 69, 71-2, 83,98, 112, 130-1, 136-7, 144-5, 154-5
Rahner, Karl, 122, 135-6
Ramm, Bernard, 41-2, 71
reason, 38ff
redemptive history, 17, 59, 119-20
Reformation, 10, 41, 45, 61-2, 65-6, 70, 74, 83, 93, 98, 129
relativism, 11-12, 76-7, 81, 123-4, 153, 165
religion, 21, 23, 29, 41, 49, 120-1, 124, 129
Renaissance, 42, 44
revelation, 38ff, 48ff, 56ff, 88-91, 102, 142, 158
Robb, N.A., 42
Rogers, Jack, 58-9
Ruether, Rosemary, 135
Sabatier, Auguste, 18
Sakharov, Andrei, 118
Sargant, William, 10
Sayers, Dorothy, 31
scandal of particularity, 121
Schillebeeckx, Edward, 134
Schleiermacher, F.D.E., 48-9, 97
secularization, 23, 26, 44-5, 92, 101, 103, 133
Servetus, Michael, 137
Shestov, Lev, 46, 63
Shriver, George, 96
Simons, Menno, 12-13, 45
Smart, James, 159
Smith, Wilfred Cantwell, 119-21
sociology of knowledge, 67, 163
Socrates, 40
Sölle, Dorothee, 23, 142
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 165
sphere sovereignty (see pluralism)
Spinoza, Baruch, 85
Sproul, Robert C., 130
Stalin, Joseph, 85
Sudhakar, Paul, 123
Swidler, Leonard, 104
Sykes, Stephen, 106
Symmachus, 119
syncretism, 27, 31, 102, 120ff
Szasz, Thomas, 96
Tertullian, 101
theology, 67-8, 74, 87-94, 100, 105, 108-9, 140ff, 158ff
theory, 85ff, 109
Thirty-Nine Articles, 138-9
Thiselton, Anthony, 74
Thomas, John L., 42
Tillich, Paul, 27, 110, 122, 144-5
Tindal, Matthew, 43, 48, 50
Toland, John, 43-4, 47-8, 50
tolerance, 12, 76-7, 81-4, 98, 104, 115-16, 123, 133, 137-8, 146, 164
Tracy, David, 84
tradition, 37, 64ff, 107, 121
Trinity, doctrine of, 32-4, 42
Trotsky, Leon, 85
Trueblood, Elton, 120, 123
truth, 39, 56, 64, 82, 164
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Van de Pol, W.H., 106
Van Loon, Hendrik, 137
Van Ruler, A.A.,115-16, 127
Van Til, Cornelius, 157
Velema, W.H., 142
Visser 't Hooft, W.A., 102, 119-20
Vogelsanger, Peter, 157-8
Voltaire, 50
Vos, Geerhardus, 53
Warfield, Benjamin B., 49-50, 55, 100-1, 159
Wells, Donald, 65
Wesley, John, 104
Westminster Confession, 61, 113, 132
Westminster Shorter Catechism, 150
Whichcote, Benjamin, 42-3
Whitehead, A.N., 18
Wilken, Robert, 113
Wogaman, Philip, 77
Wolf, William J., 106
Wordsworth, William, 49
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