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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785230003321

Autore

Bradley Ian C

Titolo

Grace, order, openness and diversity [[electronic resource] ] : reclaiming liberal theology / / Ian Bradley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Continuum, 2010

ISBN

1-282-86785-7

9786612867859

0-567-05446-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Disciplina

230.046

Soggetti

Liberalism (Religion)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-177) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Defining liberal theology and charting its history -- The present predicament and the challenge to the liberal frame of mind -- Grace -- Order -- Openness -- Diversity -- Escaping from fundamentalism and living in God's hope.

Sommario/riassunto

In this highly accessible, passionately argued and scholarly book, Ian Bradley presents fundamentalism, born a hundred years ago in the United States of America, as the great twentieth-century heresy and aberration. He identifies and seeks to reclaim for the twenty first century a liberal theological tradition existing in Christianity, Islam, Judaism and the other major world faiths. This liberal heart is found in their scriptures and was often to the fore in their foundational stages but has more recently been overlaid with conservative reaction, fundamentalism and fear. He defines this liber