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By Douglas Vickers

ISBN-10: 1498269591

ISBN-13: 9781498269599

Competing worldviews forged their influence at the church and the Christian confession. What does it suggest to be a Christian in an age that threatens cultural dissolution? comparable questions press on a relaxed attention of the which means of the Christian lifestyles. who's Jesus Christ of whose salvific paintings the Christian confession relies? Why did Jesus Christ come into the realm? what's to be acknowledged of the human situation following the Adamic fall, which, as John Milton says, "brought demise into the realm and all our woe"? what's the Christian's optimum stable, the grounds on which it has life-determining relevance, and what are its existential implications?
In this heavily reasoned and biblically proficient exam of these questions, Douglas Vickers concludes that the Christian's maximum strong exists in "fellowship with the Father." the sensible and daily importance of that comradeship is addressed at size, and the that means and prospect of every Christian's everlasting existence is proven to be grounded in a necessary and indissoluble union with Christ.

"In The Christian's optimum Good, Douglas Vickers addresses the present scenario along with his traditional energy and exposes the assets and instructions of sub-biblical streams of notion. He directs the reader to reassess the fundamental foundations of the Christian religion, the sovereignty of God, his declared salvific objective in Christ, and the benefits of reconciliation and fellowship with God. This booklet merits to be greatly learn for either the pressing value of the problems it discusses and the readability and problem of its presentation."
--Robert E. Davis, Senior Pastor, Draper's Valley Presbyterian Church, Draper, VA

Douglas Vickers (PhD, collage of London) is Professor Emeritus of Economics on the collage of Massachusetts. between his contemporary titles in theology are Discovering the Christian brain: cause and trust in Christian Confession, The move: Its that means and Message in a Postmodern World, and Being and trust: A simple View of the Christian Confession.

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