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Christian Faith: A New Translation and Critical Edition, Volumes I & II is unavailable, but you can change that!

Christian Faith is one of the most important works of Christian theology ever written. The author, known as the “father of theological liberalism,” correlates the entirety of Christian doctrine to the human experience of and consciousness of God. A work of exhaustive scholarship written in deep sympathy with the ministry of congregations and church bodies, Christian Faith has inspired admiration...

other hand, it easily becomes self-evident that the contrast between the feeling of absolute dependence and a feeling of partial dependence or of partial freedom—it being all the same whether the latter two feelings are temporal or spatial to the same degree—implies precisely the following affirmation: the causality that evokes the feeling of absolute dependence in us cannot be temporal and cannot be spatial.27 1 §54. The concept of divine “omnipotence” contains
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