Consulting the Faithful: What Christian Intellectuals Can Learn from Popular Religion

Wm. B. Eerdmans-Lightning Source

ISBN 10: 0802807380 / ISBN 13: 9780802807380

Published by Wm. B. Eerdmans-Lightning Source, 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Consulting the Faithful: What Christian Intellectuals Can Learn from Popular Religion
• Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans-Lightning Source
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802807380
• ISBN 13: 9780802807380
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New
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Synopsis

This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable.

In this careful assessment of contemporary religious trends, Mouw remains committed to theological orthodoxy while also asserting that the Christian intellectual community should pay careful and sympathetic attention to popular religious culture. Probing the thought of some theological giants of the past — John Henry Newman, Abraham Kuyper, and others — Mouw advocates a "hermeneutic of charity" toward popular religion and says that Christian scholars, besides teaching the "little people" of the church, must also learn from the "practical theological wisdom" of laypeople.

About the Author

 

Richard J. Mouw is the former president of Fuller Theological Seminary and former director of the Institute of Faith and Public Life. He has authored over twenty books and served as an editor of Reformed Journal.