Alan P F Sell: 9 books
Testimony and Tradition
Studies in Reformed and Dissenting Thought
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
Internationally recognised for his scholarship in the philosophy of religion and Christian Doctrine, and for his ecclesiastical connections as former Theological Secretary of the Geneva-based World Alliance of Reformed Churches, the Reformed theologian Alan Sell has an established reputation amongst...
by Alan P. F. Sell
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
“For three decades, he flashed like a meteor across the theological horizon, and then vanished.” So writes Alan P.F. Sell of Nels F.S. Ferré (1908-1971), a mid-twentieth-century theologian whose work is little remembered, despite his constructive and often provocative contributions to theological...
Philosophy, History, and Theology
Selected Reviews 1975–2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2012
Alan Sell here presents a selection of his wide-ranging, informative, and entertaining reviews. Among philosophical themes discussed are Locke and the Enlightenment, Richard Price, John Stuart Mill, philosophical idealism, and analytical philosophy of education and of religion. Historical studies...
One Ministry, Many Ministers
A Case Study from the Reformed Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
The heart of this book is the claim that the one church catholic comprises all who, on the ground of Christ's saving work, are called and gathered by God the Holy Spirit into a fellowship whose only Head is Christ himself; and that all thus called are granted the high privilege of sharing in a variety...
Four Philosophical Anglicans
W.G. De Burgh, W.R. Matthews, O.C. Quick, H.A. Hodges
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
Professor Sell explores the lives and ideas of four unjustly neglected Anglican philosophers: W.G. De Burgh (1866-1943); W.R. Matthews (1881-1973); O.C. Quick (1885-1944); H.A. Hodges (1905-1976). This study fills an important gap in the history of twentieth-century philosophical and theological thought....
The Theological Education of the Ministry
Soundings in the British Reformed and Dissenting Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2013
Unwilling on conscientious grounds to submit to the religious tests imposed by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, the English and Welsh Dissenters of the second half of the seventeenth century established academies in which their young men, many of them destined for the ministry, might receive...
Convinced, Concise, and Christian
The Thought of Huw Parri Owen
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2011
This is the first comprehensive study of the thought of the Welsh theologian-philosopher Huw Parri Owen (1926-1996). Indebted to the heritage of Christian thought, and not bewitched by Barth, bothered by Flew, or bewildered by Bultmann, Owen brought considerable biblical, philosophical, and theological...
Christ and Controversy
The Person of Christ in Nonconformist Thought and Ecclesial Experience, 1600–2000
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012
What may happen when Christians take doctrine seriously? One possible answer is that the shape of churchly life on the ground can be significantly altered. This pioneering study is both an account of the doctrine of the person of Christ as it has been expounded by the theologians of historic English...
Confessing the Faith Yesterday and Today
Essays Reformed, Dissenting, and Catholic
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
What is it to confess the Christian faith, and what is the status of formal confessions of faith? How far does the context inform the content of the confession? These questions are addressed in Part One, with reference to the Reformed tradition in general, and to its English and Welsh Dissenting strand...