Charley D. Hardwick (American University, Washington DC)
In the liberal theological tradition dating from Schleiermacher, this text demonstrates that the Christian faith can be fully compatible with a scientific world view. Religion and God must be understood valuationally, not ontologically, which permits an existentialist account of faith entirely in terms of modes of existing. Hardwick weds Bultmann's demythologizing programme to Wieman's naturalistic concept of God as creative transformation. Defending a strong doctrine of justification by faith, he shows how both God and the knowledge of God can be conceived in terms of events of grace that...
In the liberal theological tradition dating from Schleiermacher, this text demonstrates that the Christian faith can be fully compatible with a scient...