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Reason, Faith and Authority in Christianity
Alfred Magill Randolph · 1902
72/100
👍 Worth It
This is a serious, historically credible set of seminary lectures a bishop delivered to seminarians in 1901-02, and it's held up well enough to still be freely preserved and reprinted today. It's dense academic prose, not a casual evening read, but if you want real theological substance behind faith-and-reason questions, it delivers. Worth it for the reader who wants meat, not the reader who wants breeze.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety90
Substance / usefulness80
Craft & writing70
Originality55
Evidence & accuracy85
Hype vs delivers70
Age-fit50
Human-eye read65
Penny’s verdict72
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