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Originally Posted by CalvinandHodges  Greetings:
Alister McGrath has done some excellent apologetic work against Atheism and especially Richard Dawkins. The rap on him, though, is that he tends towards high Anglicanism and Neo-Orthodoxy as well. I believe the Torrance clan has had an affect on him. He has written a number of books and articles among which his most popular is: Christian Theology: an Introduction.
He interprets Luther and Calvin from a distinctly neo-orthodox position: "Barthism" as they call it in England.
Grace,
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Barth, huh? Quote:
When asked in 1962 (on his one visit to America) how he would summarize the essence of the millions of words he had published, he replied, "Jesus loves me this I know, for the Bible tells me so."
Though Barth made it possible for theologians again to take the Bible seriously, American evangelicals have been skeptical of Barth because he refused to consider the written Word "infallible" (he believed only Jesus was). Others gave up on Barth's theology because it overemphasized God's transcendance (to the point that some former Barthians began championing the "death of God"). Nonetheless, he remains the most important theologian of the twentieth century.
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Sounds like an interesting fellow...I can see his influence on AM...I also note that he was Reform-minded.
anybody watched the video?