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Christians disagree on doctrine, politics, church government, certain moral questions—just about everything under the sun, it can seem. Yet a unity remains, centered around a core outlook on God and the world that is common to all believers.
Or at least, such an outlook should unite Christians of all theological and church backgrounds. However, alternate visions of reality often infect and corrupt Christians' thinking.
In The Essentials of Christian Thought, eminent theologian and church historian Roger Olson outlines the basic perspective on the world that all Christians, regardless of the place and time in which they are born, have historically held. This underlying metaphysic accords with all orthodox theologies, whether Calvinist or Arminian, Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, or Protestant, but it separates Christianity from other religious and secular perspectives. It is, quite simply, the essential requirement of a Christian view of the world.
Bold and incisive, The Essentials of Christian Thought will prompt thoughtful readers and students to more consciously appropriate the core of their faith, guarding against ideas that subtly but necessarily invite compromise.
Contents
1.Everyone has a "Blik" (A Basic Perspective on Life and Reality)
2.The Components of Every Developed Blik
3.Why Bliks Cannot Be Proven by Reason or Evidence
4.How Bliks Can be Evaluated Anyway
5.The Christian Blik in a Nutshell
6.The God-centeredness of the Christian Blik
7.The Humanism of the Christian Blik
8.Good and Evil in the Christian Blik
9.The Christian Blik about Nature and the "Supernatural"
10.The Christian Blik and Life after Death
Appendix: The Christian Blik in the Arts and Sciences
