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Author(s): Gordon H. Clark
Editor(s):
Title: Religion, Reason and Revelation
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Place of publication: Nutley, New Jersey
Publisher: The Craig Press
Date of publication: 1978
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CONTENTS

I. IS CHRISTIANITY A RELIGION? I
Unity and Multiformity I
A Disconcerting Disjunction 4
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH 6
Emotion versus Intellect 6
Preconceived Notions 7
Does Description Explain? 11
Does Description Discover? 12
Description and Presupposition 13
Integration of Personality 15
THE COMPARATIVE METHOD 18
Is God Essential to Religion? 18
The Hunting of the Snark 20
Common Human Needs 21
Meaningful Words 22
CHRISTIANITY 23
Definition of Christianity 23
The Religions 24
Christian Conversion 25
Sin 26

II. FAITH AND REASON 28
REASON AND FAITH 28
Natural Theology 28
The Cosmological Argument 35
Hume and Hodge 39
REASON WITHOUT FAITH 43
Early Irreligion 44
Rationalism 50
Empiricism 54
Immanuel Kant 58
Hegel and His Critics 63
Absolute Ignorance 67
FAITH WITHOUT REASON 69
Types of Mysticism 69
Soren Kierkegaard 73
Nietzsche 78
William James 80
Emil Brunner 84
FAITH AND REASON 87
Popular Religion 88
The Analysis of Personality 90
Trust and Assent 94
Anti-Intellectualism 100
The Reformed Faith 104
Definition of Reason 108

III. INSPIRATION AND LANGUAGE 111
The Biblical Claims 111
The Dictation Objection 115
CONTEMPORARY THEORIES 119
Religious Language 120
Linguistics 124
THEISTIC LINGUISTICS 134
Theology versus Language 137
Literal Language 142
LOGICAL POSITIVISM 146

IV. REVELATION AND MORALITY 151
Ethical Disagreement 151
UTILITARIANISM 153
The Greatest Good of the Greatest Number 153
Calculation 158
The Good 159
Values in Experience 160
DEWEY AND INSTRUMENTALISM 162
Changing Morality 163
Values in Experience 166
Security and Scientific Ethics 172
Evil Ideas 176
Murder 178
Is Life Worth Living? 180
Concluding Criticism 181
CHRISTIAN ETHICS 182
The Divine Legislator 183
Ethics and Theology 185
Divine Sovereignty 188
A Contemporary Example 190
Abraham, the Father of Us All 191

V. GOD AND EVIL 194
Historical Exposition 194
Free Will 199
Reformation Theology 206
Gill's Exegesis 215
Omniscience 218
Responsibility and Free Will 219
The Will of God 221
Puppets 222
Appeal to Ignorance 228
Responsibility and Determinism 230
Distortions and Cautions 233
Deo Soli Gloria 241

[last page is numbered 241]

INDEX

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