The Christian's Knowledge of God

by WW Bryden

Overview

2012 will mark 60 years since the death of Walter Williamson Bryden. This reprint of his bold 1940 publication, featuring a new introduction by Dr John A. Vissers, Principal of Knox College, Toronto, celebrate the work of this eminent Presbyterian theologian. Best known for bringing Karl Barth to Canada, W.W. Bryden predicted the decline of Idealism and liberal theology in Protestantism at the start of the twentieth-century. When that crisis hit the Canadian Protestant Churches he was ready with this book. The Christian's Knowledge of God is a re-examination of Reformation teachings with particular focus on the revelation of God, by God through Christ. Bryden challenges his readers to question their blind acceptance of Christian doctrine and to reconsider what it means to have knowledge of the Divine and with it "the power to confront the world, no longer as those seeking, but as those having found God". Although the book concludes "Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis", we have not changed so much with the times as to make this book less relevant today than it was when first published. Indeed those seeking for knowledge of God today could do well to be reminded of Bryden's message.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780227173824
Publisher:	James Clarke & Co. Ltd
Publication date:	11/24/2011
Pages:	220
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction John A. Vissers vii

Preface xix

I God and the Historic Critics 1

II God and the Philosophers 22

III God and the Philosophers (Continued) 43

IV The New Testament Revelation 59

V The Exclusive Nature of Biblical Revelation 92

VI Revelation in the Ancient Catholic Church 130

VII Conceptions of God and Knowledge of God 161

Index 194

Editorial Reviews

"Bryden's book is a minor classic of modern Reformed divinity, a vivid piece of writing from a theological mind shaken to the core by the gospel of revelation and its consequences for Christian thought and practice, and one which has enduring relevance for theology and the life of the churches."Professor John Webster, King's College Aberdeen"The Christian's Knowledge of God is a re-examination of Reformation teachings with particular focus on the revelation of God, by God through Christ. Bryden challenges his readers to question their blind acceptance of Christian doctrine and to reconsider what it means to have knowledge of the Divine and with it 'the power to confront the world, no longer as those seeking, but as those having found God'."Theological Book Review, Vol 25, No 2

From the Publisher

The Christian's Knowledge of God is a re-examination of Reformation teachings with particular focus on the revelation of God, by God through Christ. Bryden challenges his readers to question their blind acceptance of Christian doctrine and to reconsider what it means to have knowledge of the Divine and with it 'the power to confront the world, no longer as those seeking, but as those having found God'.

Theological Book Review