Research Catalog

Title

Philosophy, history, and theology : selected reviews 1975-2011 / Alan P.F. Sell.

Author

Sell, Alan P. F.

Publication

Eugene, Or. : Wipf & Stock, c2012.

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Description

xii, 324 p.; 26 cm.

Summary

"Alan Sell here presents a selection of his wide-ranging, informative, and entertaining reviews. Among philosophical themes discussed are Locke and the Enlightenment, Richard Price, John Stuart Mill, philosophical idealism, and analytical philosophy of education and of religion. Historical studies run from the Middle Ages onwards, and encompass English, Welsh, and Scottish Nonconformity, the Evangelical Revival, the Oxford Movement, theological education, American Reformed thinkers, the crisis of belief and the Social Gospel in Canada, and evangelical and liberal theology. Theological topics include Origen, Calvin, and Dutch Reformed thinkers, American Baptists, Mercersburg Theology, Scottish theology, liberation theology, assurance, the atonement, ecclesiology, ecumenism, art and theology, Christian ethics, worship and spirituality." -- Publisher's description.

Subject

• Theology > Book reviews
• Philosophy > Book reviews
• History > Book reviews
• Books > Reviews

Genre/Form

• Book reviews
• History
• Reviews

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Seventeenth-century British philosophers -- Locke's Enlightenment -- English philosophy in the age of Locke -- Locke on man, person and spirits -- Locke on thinking matter -- Locke and Burnet -- Locke and Christianity -- Locke on depravity -- Locke and religion -- Eighteenth-century British philosophers -- Joseph Butler -- Rational dissent -- Richard Price -- Price's correspondence -- William Godwin -- John Stuart Mill and the religion of humanity -- James McCosh -- Anglican idealism in the nineteenth century -- Henry Jones -- Oxford idealism -- R.G. Collingwood -- Philosophy of education -- Philosophy of religion -- Analytic philosophy of religion -- Theism analyzed -- God's nature and existence -- Faith, scepticism, and personal identity -- The philosophical frontiers of Christian theology -- Christian theism and moral philosophy -- Asian philosophy -- Medieval thought -- Aquinas, Calvin and Protestant thought -- The Unity of Brethren -- The Hutterian Brethren --^
• The English sabbath -- The Enlightenment world -- Heterodoxy 1660-1750 -- British intellectual history 1750-1950 -- Congregationalism in Wales -- American Congregationalism -- Baptist covenants -- The Brethren -- The Evangelical and Reformed Church -- Evangelical biography -- Evangelicalism in modern Britain -- Methodism in Britain and Ireland -- Reasonable enthusiast -- Locke, Wesley and Romanticism -- The Oxford Movement -- Congregationalism in Scotland -- English dissent: dissoluble or dissolute? -- Conflict and reconciliation -- English Baptists in the nineteenth century -- Strict communion Baptists in Victorian England -- Cambridge theology in the nineteenth century -- A Unitarian theological college -- A Baptist theological college -- Religion in the West Midlands -- Charles Grandison Finney -- Philip Schaff -- Revival in Wales -- The crisis of belief in Canada 1850-1940 -- The Social Gospel in Canada 1875-1915 -- Evangelical and liberal theology in Victorian England --^
• C.J. Cadoux -- Origen -- Calvin on the law -- Assurance -- The existence of God in Dutch theology -- Samuel Clarke and the Trinity -- Fletcher of Madeley -- Baptist theologians -- Charles Hodge -- John Williamson Nevin -- Mercersburg theology and American religion -- Mercersburg theology and Reformed Catholicity -- Reformed confessionalism in nineteenth-century America -- Reformed theology in America -- Thomas Chalmers and mission -- God, grace and the Bible in Scottish Reformed theology: a reviewed article -- Theology through the theologians -- John and Donald Baillie -- The centenary of Lux Mundi -- Donald MacKinnon as theologian -- Liberation theology -- The atonement -- Models of the church -- On being the church -- Advancing ecumenical thinking -- Methodists in dialog -- Art, modernity, and faith -- On Christian ethics -- Confusions in Christian social ethics -- Protestant worship -- Pulpit, table, and song -- Theology for pew and pulpit -- Reformed spirituality.

ISBN

• 9781610979689
• 1610979680

OCLC

• 795354269
• SCSB-10907525

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library