Toward a Recovery of Christian Belief: The Rutherford Lectures [Paperback]

Carl F. H. Henry (Author)

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• Paperback: 126 pages
• Publisher: Crossway Books (August 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0891075887
• ISBN-13: 978-0891075882
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,214,826 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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CARL F. H. HENRY is widely recognized as a foremost thinker, educator, author, and theologian. He holds the ThD from Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, and the PhD from Boston University. He was the founding editor of Christianity Today, the Chairman of the World Congress on Evangelism in Berlin in 1966, and the Program Chairman for the Jerusalem Conference on Biblical Prophecy in 1970. He is the author of some thirty-five volumes, a number of which have had a decisive influence on the shape of Christianity in America, including The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism (1948), Evangelicals at the Brink of Crisis (1967), and the monumental six-volume work God, Revelation, and Authority (1976-1983). In addition, he has taught and lectured around the world at major universities on every continent.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant and compelling call to reason, December 9, 2002

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This review is from: Toward a Recovery of Christian Belief: The Rutherford Lectures (Paperback)

This book is the published form of the four Rutherford Lectures C.F.H. Henry gave in 1989 at Rutherford House in Edinburgh.

Henry begins by showing Christians how they have abandoned their "intellectual birthright" and settled for "a mess of pseudo-intellectual pottage." He argues that modern Evangelicals have in fact cast off their moral and epistemic moorings by trading the foundation of Scripture for anti-Christian thought systems. Henry identifies the decay of Western society as the result of this trade.

Henry then argues that a return to the presuppositional method, founded upon the axioms given by God in Scripture, will return Christianity to its proper place in the intellectual arena and cause a radical change in the church. Only then, says Henry, will we again drink from the "eternal springs" found in the glorious truths of God's Word and drastically alter our sinking society.

Marvellously written and enjoyable to read, I strongly recommend this book for anyone who is interested in Christian thought and desires to see the destructive trends of our society reversed.