Evangelical Dictionary of Theology (EDT), 2nd ed.

by Walter A. Elwell

Publisher:

Baker Academic

, 2001

Overview

Fifteen years after its original publication comes a thoroughly revised edition of the Evangelical Dictionary of Theology. Every article from the original edition has been revisited. With some articles being removed, others revised, and many new articles added, the result is a completely new dictionary covering systematic, historical, and philosophical theology as well as theological ethics.

Theologians, pastors, lay readers, and students have relied on the Evangelical Dictionary of Theology for years. Now, this thoroughly updated reference work continues to provide comprehensive, useful, and accurate information in systematic, historical, and philosophical theology as well as theological ethics.

Contents

Top Highlights

“Assessment. Process thinking’s most important point of departure from historic Christian faith is partly contingent and limited deity, acting only as lure, and without knowledge of the future. Moreover, process separates God from evil, by denying sovereignty, but fails to explain the causes of radical sin and evil.” (Page 959)

“First, he employed ‘radical empiricism’ to describe the nature of beliefs. That is, in his view beliefs rest on currently observed facts; thus, beliefs are hypothetical and relative rather than dogmatic. Second, ‘humanism’ is the route to proper ideas. Ideas are to be based on human experience, not on revelation. Third, truths are relative to experience instead of coming from an absolute source.” (Page 945)

“Thus higher criticism often is associated with a destructive undermining of biblical authority rather than an objective analysis and evaluation of the biblical literature.” (Page 555)

“Warfield, Benjamin Breckinridge (1851–1921). The last of the great conservative theologians who defended Calvinistic orthodoxy from the chair of theology at Princeton Seminary.” (Page 1257)

“Positivism. A distinctive position in contemporary philosophy that stresses the analysis of language as the most important function of philosophy. Positivism, because of its use of recent developments in logic and its emphasis on scientific inquiry as the paradigm of human knowledge, is sometimes called logical positivism or logical empiricism. All three labels can be used interchangeably.” (Page 936)

Product Details

• Title: Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, 2nd ed.
• Author: Walter A. Elwell
• Publisher: Baker Academic
• Print Publication Date: 2001
• Logos Release Date: 2009
• Pages: 1312
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Theology › Dictionaries
• ISBNs: 9781441250063, 9780801020759, 0801020751, 1441250069
• Resource ID: LLS:EVDICTTHEO
• Resource Type: Encyclopedia
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T23:44:20Z

About Walter A. Elwell

Walter A. Elwell, born 1937 in Florida, is an evangelical theologian and noted editor of several evangelical standard reference works. He is professor emeritus of Bible and Theology at Wheaton College where he taught from 1975 to 2003.