Woohoo!! One midterm done, and done well. My Rel 215, Christianity and Community Action, midterm went excellent. Our teacher had given us a list of twelve essay questions to study from, telling us two would appear on the exam, and explicitly saying that we would NOT have a choice. Today, before he handed out the exam, he said "don't be nervous, there is always grace and mercy." And he handed out an exam with 4 questions, and we could choose two. Not only that, but two of the questions I was most prepared for were on the exam. So it was sweet. 3 more to go.
Proper Confidence: Faith, Doubt, and Certainty
Leslie Newbigin, Proper Confidence: Faith, Doubt , and Certainty in Christian Discipleship. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 1995. 105 pgs. In this gem of a book Newbigin takes the reader on a journey away from the idea of Cartesian certainty and towards a more proper scaffolding for thought and belief. He denies the possibility of ideal certainty with no doubt and concludes that seeking this ideal can only to skepticism (of an extreme sort) and Nihilism. The thesis of this book might best best be stated as follows: the proper confidence of a Christian is not the possession of indubitable knowledge but the confidence of one who has heard and answered God's call of 'Follow me.' In order to demonstrate this point, Newbigin first examines three 'paths' whose titles, which are his first three chapter titles, seem somewhat counter-intuitive. In the first chapter, 'Faith as the Way to Knowledge,' Newbigin argues that if knowledge, and God, are ultim
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