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The Adventists' DilemmaPages: 162 |
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Edward W. H. Vick provides an unbiassed assessment of the claim that you can go on speaking of the Second Advent as 'soon' after having said so for centuries, followed by a constructive statement suggesting a more honest approach derived directly from the New Testament. If you use 'soon' in the ordinary sense, you can't go on saying that the Advent is soon. If you say the Advent is 'soon' in a qualified sense (meaning 'in the unknown and indefinite future but not long into that future') the claim is meaningless. So the claim that the Advent is soon is either false or meaningless. That leads us into a range of interesting problems: knowledge, certainty, truth, claims to know the truth, the meaningfulness of religious claims, the status of claims about the future and of the argument from prophecy, and the gap between the first and twenty-first centuries. Vick, Edward W. HEdward W. H. Vick was born in Sussex and grew up in Berkshire. He is a graduate of London (BD), Nottingham (BA Philosophy), Oxford (B.Litt.), and Vanderbilt (Ph.D.) Universities. He is a teacher of wide experience, having taught for many years at Canadian Union College, Alberta (Canada) and at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary, Andrews University, Michigan (USA). Later he was Head of Religious Studies Department, Forest Fields College, Nottingham. He is now retired, but has for many years been teaching philosophy in local Adult Education programs and writing about matters he has been reflecting on for a lifetime.
He has written many books, among them: Let me Assure You; Is Savation Really Free? Jesus the Man, Speaking Well of God, Our Lord's Prayer, History and Christian faith, Theological Essays, Quest: Science and religion, and The Adventists' Dilemma. Edward W. H Vick lives with Esther, his wife of 59 years, in Nottingham, England. He has a son, two daughters, and four grandchildren. There are no reviews or discussion links available for this book at this time. | ||
