Diogenes Allen

Three Outsiders

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Produktbeschreibung

The three outsiders are Blaise Pascal, Soren Kierkegaard, and Simone Weil. They were outsiders because they distanced themselves from the institutional church and also the societies around them in their respective eras. They believed that the church failed to take seriously the profound and disturbing relationship with God which is in Jesus Christ. From their position "outside they questioned the assumptions, practices, and understandings of their church and secular contemporaries. Each produced profoundly original but difficult writings (often in uncompleted fragments), which Professor Allen has organized and interpreted for anyone who asks the question, "How am I to be a Christian?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 203g
• ISBN-13: 9781597525794
• ISBN-10: 1597525790
• Artikelnr.: 21278374

Autorenporträt

Diogenes Allen is Stuart Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary, where he taught for thirty-six years. He is both a Presbyterian minister and an Episcopal priest, presently serving as a priest associate at All Saints', Princeton, New Jersey. He has written fourteen books including 'Temptation', 'The Traces of God', 'Philosophy for Understanding Theology', 'Three Outsiders: Pascal, Kierkegaard, Simone Weil', and 'Christian Belief in a Postmodern World'.