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Author Jones, Bernard E

Title Earnest Enquirers After Truth : a Gifford Anthology: excerpts from Gifford Lectures 1888-1968
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (225 pages)
Series Routledge Revivals
Routledge revivals.
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; INTRODUCTION; I. Lord Gifford; II. Natural Theology in the Widest Sense; Ill. Man's Conceptions of God; IV. The Knowledge of God; V. True and Felt Knowledge; VI. The Limitations of God?; VII. Promoting and Advancing the True Knowledge of God; VIII. Just as Astronomy or Chemistry; IX. So-called Miraculous Revelation; X. Obligations and Duties; XI. Life Everlasting; XII. Earnest Enquirers after Truth; APPENDIX 1: Gifford Lecturers and Bibliography of Published Lectures
APPENDIX 2: Gifford Lecturers with Titles of Lectures not yet PublishedACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INDEX
Summary First published in 1970, Bernard E. Jones's selection of Gifford lectures includes excerpts from the writings of over ninety scholars who occupied a Gifford Chair between 1888 and 1968. Lord Gifford had asked his lecturers to be 'honest to God', insisting that they should be 'earnest enquirers after truth' and had always envisaged the lectures being published. Dr Jones's anthology is arranged under headings suggested by phrases from Lord Gifford's will. The selection, which includes names such as William James, A.N. Whitehead, Temple, Barth, Brunner, Bultmann, Niebuhr and Tillich, was made
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ISBN 9781136501548
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