Changing Christian Paradigms and Their Implications for Modern Thought / / Crawford Knox.

• Superior document: Numen Book Series ; Volume 57
• VerfasserIn: Knox, Crawford,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : E.J. Brill,, [1993]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 1993
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the history of religions ; Volume 57.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Preface /; The Problem That We Face /; God and The World How Biblical and Early Church Ideas Changed in the West /; The Old Testament Understanding of the Relationship of God and the World /; Jewish and Greek Understandings of God and the World /; Christ in His Contemporary Setting /; God and The World: The Early Church Fathers /; Changes in the Mediaeval Conception of God /; Renaissance and Reformation /; Later Developments in Understanding God and the World /; God and The World Some Implications of the Changes between Biblical and Early Church Ideas and those of the West /; The Concept of God and His Relationship to the World /; Creation Ex Nihilo /; The Idea of God's Choosing /; The Will of God and Emanation /; The Trinity and the Limits of Self-Contradiction /; The Augustinian-Western Trinity /; Some Contrasts in Implications of the Early Patristic and Western Pictures /; Redemption, Paideia and the Church /; God and the World Confirmation of Biblical and Early Church Ideas in Modern Science and Their Relevance to Survival of Death and Jesus Christ /; The Nature and Implications of the Fall /; The Nature and Development of Order /; Chance and Providence /; Physical, Mental and Spiritual /; Mind in Its Personal and Social Settings /; The Relevance of F A Hayek and Classical Liberalism /; The Transience of the Physical World /; Memory /; The Mind of God: I /; The Mind of God: II /; Jesus Christ /; Coda /; Select Bibliography /; Index /; Studies in the History of Religions Numen Bookseries /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004378804
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Crawford Knox.

Though the Bible and creeds have provided a compass for Christianity from earliest times, the frameworks of thought within which they have been understood have constantly changed, the contribution of Augustine to these changes being fundamental. This book traces, first, these changes chronologically and shows how they have led to the separation of religion and science, faith and reason, supernatural and natural, and so to current materialism: but also to radical alterations to our understanding of God and his relationship to the world. The second part shows in more detail how these changes have altered the significance of major features of Christian faith and led to serious incoherences. And the third part shows, not only how pre-Augustinian and Biblical understandings cohere closely with modern science, but that they have radical implications for our understanding of man, his place in nature and survival of death, for Jesus Christ and for the role of the Churches.