God and History : The Dialectical Tension of Faith and History in Modern Thought

The relation of faith and history is the central issue in Christian theology. Nothing should be claimed for theology that is not also history. This book is a fresh examination of this problem. The greatest challenge of the rise of the modern historical consciousness to faith was not critical history, but the fact-value dichotomy that was imported into it. This dualistic thinking led modern thought to divorce the man Jesus from his significance as the Christ. Advancing a more critical understanding of the nature of history than modern thought was generally able to achieve because of its positivistic historiography, this work argues for an integrative dialectic of historical probability and certainty of faith.Wood, Laurence W. is the author of 'God and History : The Dialectical Tension of Faith and History in Modern Thought', published 2004 under ISBN 9780975543504 and ISBN 0975543504.