Sárospataki Füzetek 1. (1997)

1997 / 1. szám - M. Eugene Osterhaven: The Foundation of our Faith and Theology. (Hitünk és theológiánk alapja. - Fordította: Rácsok Gabriella)

THE FOUNDATION OF FAITH AND THEOLOGY

mlnules as a pari of ray daily devotions! Tlial was untrue, of course. f>ul it says something about the impression that others can make on one. It look me some lime to adm it th at there might he flaws in the method that I had learned from him. Wh en that lime arrived I no longer felt comfortable defining faith as a weighing of the sufficiency of the evidence (12) or appealing mainly to intellectual argument an d f acts. I believe that there is much more to life lha n these, and that the deepest issues of life are not touched by them. I hose issues are spiritual in nature, and on ly the Spirit of God can speak to them effecti ve ly. The Spirit does so through that special revelation which he gave us in history through prophets, apostles, and the Lord Jesus Christ. It tells us how Christ wishes to make his Kingship prevail here and now... For his Word is his royal sceptre. (13)

(1) Dogmatic Constitution on Di vine Revelation, 1.6.

(2) rLe New Schaff-IIerzog 1.ncyclopcilia of Religious Knowledge. reprinted. Grand Rapids: The Baker Book House. 1949. I.232ff

(3) Ibid.

(4) Ibid.

(5) Princeton Theological Review. 1 (January. 1903). pp.138-143.

(6) The expression is from Mark A. Noll. The Princeton Theology. Grand Rapids: Baker Book House. 1983. p.302.

(7) Job n Calvin. Institutes ot the Christian Religion. I.viii. et passim

(8) John Calvin. Institutes. I.viii.13.

(9) John Cal vin. Institutes. I.vii.4.

(10) John Calvin. Institutes. I.vii.4,5

(11) John Calvin. Institutes. I.vi.2.

(12) Ibis is the definition of faith used by E.I. Carnell. An Introduction to the Christian Apologetics. Grand Rapids: Wm.B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. 82f. et passim

(13) Barna Nagy. Rihli cal Authority for Today, ed. Alan Richardson and Wolfgang Schweitzer. Philadelphia: Westminster Press. 1951. p.84. Professor Nagy wrote for the Reformed tradition in this symposium sponsored by ll ie w orld Council of Churches onhihlical authority. He wrote it when a professor at Sárospatak.

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