The God Who Is There

內容簡介

Section 1. The intellectual and cultural climate of the second half of the twentieth century -- The gulf is fixed -- The first step in the line of despair: philosophy -- The second step: art -- Third and fourth steps: music and the general culture -- The unifying factor in the steps of despair -- Section 2. The relationship of the new theology to the intellectual climate -- The fifth step: theology -- Modern mysticism : despair beyond despair -- Modern mysticism in action: art and language -- Modern mysticism in action : music and literature -- A new phase of modern theology -- Section 3. How historic Christianity differs from the new theology -- Personality or a devilish din -- Verifiable facts and knowing -- The dilemma of man -- God's answer to man's dilemma -- How do we know it is true? -- Section 4. Speaking historic Christianity into the twentieth century climate -- Finding the point of tension -- From the point of tension to the Gospel -- Applying the Gospel -- Section 5. Pre-evangelism is no soft option -- Commending the Christian faith to our generation -- The importance of truth -- Section 6. Personal and corporate living into the twentieth-century climate -- Demonstrating the character of God -- The legal, but not only the legal -- Appendix A. The problem of the middle-class church in the latter half of the twentieth century -- Appendix B. The practice of truth.