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McGrath, Alister

A passion for truth: the intellectual coherence of evangelicalism / Alister E. McGrath. - Downers Grove, IL : IVP, c1996. - 287 p. : 23 cm.

includes bibliographical references and index

Evangelical hostility towards academic theology -- 1. The fundamentalist legacy -- 2. The dominance of pragmatism in evangelicalism -- 3. The secularism of the academy -- 4. The elitism of academic theology -- The past defensiveness of evangelicalism - a working definition of evangelicalism - the purpose and structure of this book -- I. The uniqueness of Jesus Christ -- The authority of Jesus Christ - Modernism and mastery - The significance of Jesus Christ -- 1. The revelational significance of Jesus Christ -- 2. The soteriological of Jesus Christ -- 3. The mimetic significance of Jesus Christ -- 4. The doxological significance of Jesus Christ -- 5. The kerygmatic significance of Jesus Christ -- 2. The authority of scripture -- 3. Evangelicalism and postliberalism -- 4. Evangelicalism and postmodernism -- 5. Evangelicalism and religious pluralism

ISBN: 0830818669

LCCN: Acc#29640

Subjects--Topical Terms:
EVANGELICALISM

LC Class. No.: BR 1640 / M337 1996