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Title: The Word of God and the Mind of Man by Ronald H. Nash ISBN: 0-87552-354-4 Publisher: P & R Press Pub. Date: February, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.75 (4 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Small book, helpful content
Comment: This book by Ronald Nash helped me understand some key intellectual history about how the mind of man has been slowly blocked out from theological knowledge. Revelation does provide cognitive content and propostitional truth. Nash points out some of the common logical errors in regard to reason and revelation. He made me comfortable with the integration of reason and revelation. I consider him a helpful teacher and guide for intellectual life and the Christian faith. This author is a teacher and trustful guide.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great on Documenting the Modernist Movement
Comment: Ronald Nash's work, The Word of God and the Mind of Man, is a mastery and succinct piece of work. It can be read within a few days and the content is very good.
He opens his discussion with what he calls "Hume's Gap" and then moves into "Kant's Wall" (if i remember his term for Kant's theory of the possibility of knowledge correctly). Nash notes their significant importance because their epistemological theories are shown to have influenced men such as Reihnr, Schliermacher, Brunner, and others. For example, Nash notes how their perspective about God consisted of nonpropositional content, and the experience or knowledge of the metaphysical was more of a reliance than a cognitive experience.
Following his discussion of Aristotle's four squares and the modernist theologians, Nash touches upon Augustine's theory of knowledge. This is not by any means an indepth look as his other book, A Light in the Mind: St. Augustine's Theory of Knowledge; but he does explain quite enough to grasp the fundamental concepts.
The next chapter consists of the logos epistemology. This is fully compatible with (and endorsed by) Augustine. The "logos" refers to Jesus Christ, as taken from the opening of John's Gospel. Nash gets into Scripture in detail discussing how knowledge is contingent upon Christ from a Biblical perspective.
Finally, Nash moves to the more recent theologians and philosophers. For example, he discusses the Amsterdam philosophy (e.g. Dooyweerd) and others such as Van Til. It should be noted that Nash was a student of Gordon Clark. Nash uses Clark's argument against Van Til's theory of knowlegde; however, this argument stems from a misunderstanding of Van Til's theory of man's mind being analogous to God's. See Greg. L. Bahnsen's book, Van Til's Apologetic: Readings and Analysis. There are many excerpts by Van Til that discuss that issue and clarify what he meant by man's mind being analogous to God's.
Nevertheless, despite that one problem with the book, I found it quite enjoyable and interesting to see how the modernists were influenced. I recommend this book to anyone interested in philosophy or theology (esp. within the Christian tradition).
Rating: 5
Summary: This book is back in print
Comment: The latest edition of this book is once again available from the publisher, Presbyterian and Reformed. It remains the only critical evaluation of theologians who attempt to discredit God's disclosure of true information through special revelation.
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Title: The Gospel and the Greeks: Did the New Testament Borrow from Pagan Thought? (The Student Library) by Ronald H. Nash ISBN: 0875525598 Publisher: P & R Press Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: Concept of God, The by Ronald H. Nash ISBN: 0310451418 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 22 September, 1983 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview by J. P. Moreland, William Lane Craig ISBN: 0830826947 Publisher: Intervarsity Press Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: Faith and Reason by Ronald H. Nash ISBN: 0310294010 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 08 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.99 |
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Title: Life's Ultimate Questions by Ronald H. Nash ISBN: 0310223644 Publisher: Zondervan Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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