Gregory Alan Thornbury

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Gregory Alan Thornbury


Born
in Lewisburg, PA, The United States
November 20, 1970

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Average rating: 4.06 · 512 ratings · 131 reviews · 6 distinct worksSimilar authors
Why Should the Devil Have A...

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Recovering Classic Evangeli...

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Shaping a Christian Worldvi...

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Essential Evangelicalism: T...

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“Occam’s epistemological developments effected an essential schism within medieval scholarship and precipitated a new school of philosophy that emphasized the freedom of the will of God in creation more than its predecessors. In other words, the nominalists/voluntarists claimed that the universe exists in its present form simply because God wills it so, in accordance with his own nature. And it was this idea that caught the attention of a young Augustinian monk named Martin Luther and, perhaps less directly, a French humanist named John Calvin. How”
Gregory Alan Thornbury, Recovering Classic Evangelicalism: Applying the Wisdom and Vision of Carl F. H. Henry

“Stated simply, Henry’s vision for theology was that it be epistemologically viable, methodologically coherent, biblically accurate, socially responsible, evangelistically oriented and universally applied. In”
Gregory Alan Thornbury, Recovering Classic Evangelicalism: Applying the Wisdom and Vision of Carl F. H. Henry

“What is more, as J. R. R. Tolkien reminds us in his great essay on Beowulf, there is a danger that attends rational and scientific description: “a plain pure fairy story dragon” can be ruined at the hands of a logical analysis. The interpreter, “unless he is careful, and speaks in parables, will kill what he is studying by vivisection, and he will be left with a formal or mechanical allegory, and, what is more, probably with one that will not work. For myth is alive at once and all its parts, and dies before it can be dissected.”
Gregory Alan Thornbury, Recovering Classic Evangelicalism: Applying the Wisdom and Vision of Carl F. H. Henry

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