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The Eclipse of Hope
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The Eclipse of HopeSoftcover O. Talmadge Spence A philosophical approach to the need of a change in the methods of evangelism because there has been a change in the presupposition of the audience. With the growing apostasy among Christian churches, there are more atheists and agnostics present from the fall-out.
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Anything above the sun would have to be revealed by someone who lived in that sphere. All of the content of man’s research, in all of his compartments of life would naturally carry with it a statute of limitation: man would only and always think and speak in his own place of immanence. Otherwise, the human would be, by nature, God, as gnostic, theist, or deist; others transcendent. Some men have proposed themselves to be God, others seemingly humble, sided to the effect of merely taking their position as a respectful agnostic. This becomes, however, simply, the most beautiful infidel of all. No creature can afford to live, or hope to live both “under the sun,” and “above the sun.”

Under the sun is the only position we may honorably take in this life, even if we think otherwise. Man only lives in a place of immanence.

All of the philosophies of all of history, therefore, have only four categories to be placed:

1. The Meridian View
2. The Horizon View
3. The Median View
4. The Eclipse View

Is there still an open door of hope? a place where reason and revelation are complementing friends? There must be, or else all the past thoughts of all the thinkers were indeed the expressions of depraved insanity.

In other words, the Christian is called upon to not only defend the Christian Faith from the attacks made by the skeptics, but to also redefine the very core truth of Christianity itself against the neo-christian of the time. This task seems impossible, but that which is impossible with man is possible with God..