Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 15, 2014).

Introduction : the nature and structure of this enquiry -- Nels Ferré's career, character and devotional centre -- The philosophical context and Ferré's starting point -- Recurrent epistemological themes -- The theological environment -- Searchlights on Christian doctrine -- Ethics and society, mission and world religions.

""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 debates that endure today. While Professor Sell speculates upon the reasons for this inattention, his primary concern is to show that Ferré's works raise timeless questions about the relations between content and method in theology. How far do the personal convictions of theologians influence their.

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