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The Gifford Lectures

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The Fundamental Ideas of Christianity

  • John Caird
1892 to 1896
University of Glasgow

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The Fundamental Ideas of Christianity

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Preface

Memoir

Introductory Note

Lecture I. Natural and Revealed Religion

Lecture II. Faith and Reason

Lecture III. The Christian Idea of God

Lecture IV. The Relation of God to the World.

Lecture V. The Relation of God to the World

Lecture VI. The Relation of God to the World

Lecture VII. The Relation of God to the World

Lecture VIII. Theories as to the Origin and Nature of Evil

Lecture IX. Theories as to the Origin and Nature of Evil

Lecture X. Theories as to the Origin and Nature of Evil

Lecture XI. Theories as to the Origin and Nature of Evil

Lecture XII. The Possibility of Moral Restoration

Lecture XIII. Theories of the Incarnation

Lecture XV. The Idea of the Incarnation

Lecture XVI. The Idea of the Atonement

Lecture XVII. The Idea of the Atonement

Lecture XVIII. The Idea of the Atonement

Lecture XIX. The Kingdom of the Spirit

Lecture XX. The Future Life

Lecture XXI. The Future Life (Continued)

Glasgow
James MacLehose and Son
1904

This two volume collection of John Caird’s Gifford Lectures, originally delivered at the University of Glasgow between 1892-3, and 1895-6 is a rare and valuable insight into the thought and work of a notable Scottish theologian and preacher.

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