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    The Essentials of Christian Thought: Audio Lectures: 16 Lessons on Seeing Reality through the Biblical Story
    The Essentials of Christian Thought: Audio Lectures: 16 Lessons on Seeing Reality through the Biblical Story
    The Essentials of Christian Thought: Audio Lectures: 16 Lessons on Seeing Reality through the Biblical Story
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    The Essentials of Christian Thought: Audio Lectures: 16 Lessons on Seeing Reality through the Biblical Story

    Written by Roger E. Olson

    Narrated by Roger E. Olson

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    The Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series provides a unique audio learning experience. Unlike a traditional audiobook's direct narration of a book's text, The Essentials of Christian Thought: Audio Lectures includes high-quality live recordings of college-level lectures that cover the important points from each subject as well as relevant material from other sources.

    Christians disagree on doctrine, politics, church government, certain moral questions--just about everything under the sun, it can seem. Yet a unity remains, centered around a core outlook on God and the world that is common to all believers. Or at least, such an outlook should unite Christians of all theological and church backgrounds. However, alternate visions of reality often infect and corrupt Christians' thinking.

    In The Essentials of Christian Thought: Audio Lectures eminent theologian and church historian Roger Olson outlines the basic perspective on the world that all Christians, regardless of the place and time in which they were born, have historically held. This underlying metaphysic accords with all orthodox theologies, whether Calvinist or Arminian, Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, or Protestant, but it separates Christianity from other religious and secular perspectives. It is, quite simply, the essential requirement of a Christian view of the world.

    The Essentials of Christian Thought: Audio Lectures will prompt viewers to more consciously appropriate the core of their faith, guarding against ideas that subtly but necessarily invite compromise.

    The Essentials of Christian Thought: Audio Lectures is part of the Zondervan Biblical and Theological Lectures series, which is dedicated to bringing expert teaching from world's best biblical scholars and theologians directly to interested learners. The Essentials of Christian Thought: Audio Lectures offers the chance to learn about the necessary principles of a Christian outlook on the world from one of today's premier theologians.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZondervan Academic
    Release dateDec 12, 2017
    ISBN9780310595564
    The Essentials of Christian Thought: Audio Lectures: 16 Lessons on Seeing Reality through the Biblical Story
    Author

    Roger E. Olson

    Roger E. Olson (PhD, Rice University) is emeritus professor of theology at George W. Truett Theological Seminary of Baylor University. He is the author of many books, including Questions to All Your Answers: The Journey from Folk Religion to Examined Faith; Reformed and Always Reforming: The Postconservative Approach to Evangelical Theology; and How to Be Evangelical without Being Conservative.

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      Olson provides, again, an excellent read on the history of Christian faith and theology in relation to philosophy. Here he shows that Christians adhere to a fundamental tenets which originate from a revelatory philosophical world view inherent in the Bible. He says, "The biblical Christian vision of reality is a 'view from somewhere'... a revealed-to-faith perspective that, in the writer's perspective, cannot be proved true but nevertheless is no private worldview based solely on a subjective leap of faith. It is rooted in the narrative of the Bible..." (p.39).It seems to me that Olson contends we do not need to go to philosophical views of being or metaphysics to understand or explain the Christian faith as, perhaps, the Church Fathers have done, because the Bible has its own metaphysical view of reality. He further argues that "throughout the centuries and yet today Christian thinkers have succumbed to the temptation to replace the thinking of the Bible with alien philosophies under the wrong assumption that the Bible is a bunch of stories which no reasonable, workable metaphysical vision (or ethic) can be drawn for later cultures and their Christians" (p.69).Olson suggests that what we need to know of ultimate reality, the Bible provides adequate answers; that we need not look outside the Bible to philosophy, while it does have some benefits, to explain the Bible, but that the Bible "contains its own metaphysical vision of reality" (p.77).Olson says that while Christians have varying beliefs on certain issues, nevertheless, they are united in the essential tenets that are absolutely necessary to thought identified as Christian or Biblical.An excellent read for those interested in the relationship between philosophy and the Bible and the negative impact the former has upon the latter with correctives of ultimate reality from a Christian philosophical perspective.