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The question of where we come from and where we are going is one of the elementary challenges of life. Perhaps it is THE question of life. Only when we get an answer to it do we learn who we are. With these striking words, Prof Helmut Thielicke begins this book about the most fundamental of all questions; the question of who we are, whence we came, and what God intended when he gave us life. Despite - perhaps even because of - the immense technological advances of our time, and the frightful consequences for the human race of the misuse of that power, man is brought face to face again with that basic problem which has haunted him since the beginning of time, the mystery of good and evil. Weaving these themes of origin and purpose, good and evil together, these are sermons for our times - highly intelligent, widely ranging, fascinating, and of quite exceptional power. There is nothing sloppy or sentimental in this book. These chapters are the creation of a 20th century man with a particularly penetrating mind.

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Author:   Helmut Thielicke ,  J.W. Doberstein
Publisher:   James Clarke & Co Ltd
Imprint:   James Clarke & Co Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 22.00cm
Weight:   0.440kg
ISBN:  

9780227674840

ISBN 10:   0227674847
Pages:   308
Publication Date:   07 January 1964
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Translator's Introduction The Beginning 1. In the Beginning 2. The Primeval Witnesses 3. The Light of the World 4. God's Autograph The Creation of Man 5. Man - the Risk of God 6. Creation and Evolution, Faith and Science 7. The Meaning and Order of the Sexes 8. The Great Sabbath The Story of the Fall 9. How Evil Came into the World 10. The Bridgehead of the Tempter 11. Guilt and Destiny 12. The Mystery of Death The Story of Cain and Abel 13. The Cain Within Us 14. Where Is Abel Your Brother? 15. Insecure Man The Story of the Flood 16. Floods and Fires 17. Noah - The Adventure of Faith The Building of the Tower of Babel 18. The Fear of Our Fellows 19. Outlines of a New World Order Postscript for Theological Readers 20. Postscript for Theological Readers

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Helmut Thielicke is one of the most outstanding preachers and theologians of the German Lutheran Church. Dismissed by the Nazi regime from his post of Professor of Theology at Heidelberg in 1940, he came to prominence in Stuttgart where, during the worst of the bombing raids and in spite of continuing Nazi opposition, he continued to preach to a congregation of several thousand each week. After the war he served as professor and Rector at the University of Tubingen until 1954, when he accepted the post of Rector at the University of Hamburg, the first Protestant theologian to hold this position. He died in 1986.

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