Theo Todman's Book Collection (Book-Paper Abstracts)

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• Dr. Alister McGrath is a first-rate theologian and a brilliant communicator. In Justification by Faith he combines his vast knowledge of the doctrine of justification by faith with his skills as a communicator and teacher.
• McGrath begins by arguing passionately that the contemporary perception of the doctrine of justification by faith as irrelevant is not a failure of the doctrine but rather a failure to communicate it in understandable modern-day terms.
• After a concise exposition of the biblical foundation of the doctrine and its historical development, McGrath comes to the heart of the matter: the relevance of the doctrine today.
• Making skillful use of conteporary philosophies such as existentialism, he demonstrates how the vitality and relevance of the doctrine can be recovered and presented to the modern situation.
• An appendix presents a careful study of the place of the doctrine in systematic theology.
• Alister McGrath₁ is a scholar and writer who was until recently Andreas Idreos Professor of Science and Religion at Oxford University. After initial work in the natural sciences (first class hnours and a doctorate in molecular biology from Oxford University), McGrath moved into the field of Christian theology (a university prize in theology at Oxford followed by theological research at Cambridge University, returning to Oxford as a member of the Oxford Faculty of Theology and a lecturer in Christian Doctrine and Ethics at Wycliffe Hall). He is best known for his definitive and widely used textbooks on Christian theology and his authoritative biography of C.S. Lewis. As a former atheist, McGrath is fascinated by the interaction of faith, science, and atheism, and writes regularly on these themes.
• McGrath was born in Belfast in 1953, and holds both Irish and British citizenship. He lives in the Cotswolds near Oxford.