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The Third World and the Problem of God-Talk1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 June 2011

Herbert O. Edwards
Affiliation:
Harvard Divinity School

Extract

The major thrust of this paper is that changing historical configurations are not without their effect on the attempts to articulate and interpret the faith principles of a religion which claims allegiance to the Lord of History. If one starts, not with God but with man and his predicament, as does John Macquarrie, how does one ignore some of the most significant changes that have occurred in recent history which have helped to contribute to the precariousness of “Western man”?

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © President and Fellows of Harvard College 1971

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