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Loading... A Cloud of Witnesses: Ten Great Christian Thinkersby Alister E. McGrath
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You are in a Bible study, with a group of people. You are all studying the same passage. And someone points out something that you hadn't noticed before. New light is suddenly shed on familiar material. And you realize that, left to yourself, you'd have missed that. Other people help us understand both Scripture and our faith more deeply. It helps to study Scripture and think about the gospel in good company -- and this book aims to put you in good company as you think through some key areas of the Christian faith. Reading about the great Christian thinkers of the past is like being at a really good Bible study. They can help you think through things you may have been puzzled by. They can cast new light on a familiar scriptural passage. They can inspire with their testimonies. They can stretch your thinking, helping you wrestle with important questions which you ought to think through at some point. What better way to begin, than to be introduced to a classic discussion of such questions? --from the Introduction No library descriptions found. |
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You won't come away knowing Anselm as a person but you will come away knowing a tiny bit about his thoughts and contributions to Christianity. This lack of personality hinders the development of thought, it doesn't give the reader a sense where the thinkers thoughts came from. Augustine's struggles of the flesh aren't revealed in their depth so the reasons for the development of his thoughts is missing.
The book has a unique choice of characters, McGrath makes an unorthodox, yet merited, choice to place Zwingli along side his contemporaries (Luther and Calvin). He also includes Jonathan Edwards the most controversial of the early American preachers. He choses to end with the modern choice of C.S. Lewis, another merited choice that would have been excluded from most lists of Ten Great Christian Thinkers. To McGrath's credit he only claims to be writing about ten great thinkers not the ten greatest. His choices bring to like a unusual perspective and history for modern Christian Thought.
Don't read this book if you are know about these great men, you won't learn much. Do read this book if you want to know ten great Christian thinkers who you may not know. (