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Witnessing to Truth and the Dynamics of Christian Evangelization

Putting your Life on the Line

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Witnessing to Truth and the Dynamics of Christian Evangelization

Putting your Life on the Line

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In this book, Paul O'Callaghan turns to the epistemological framework of witnessing. From a religious standpoint, witnessing is a foundation for belief in divine revelation. Pivotal in Biblical texts, especially in John's gospel, witnessing is similarly at the heart of Christian evangelization. Ideally, witnessing avoids the opposing extremes of fundamentalism and skepticism and, instead, points us towards divine truth. This book explores the idea of truth and the communication of truth through witnessing. O'Callaghan offers an overview of philosophical and theological epistemology, introduces the notion of witnessing within philosophy, and examines how Jesus Christ's death on the Cross and subsequent Resurrection provides witness to the truth. This dynamic of witnessing is then applied to the lives of contemporary Christians who give witness to the truth in a variety of ways. At its core, O'Callaghan brings together both theology and philosophy, considering how the rationality of the witnessing process leads to a person-centered anthropology.

Table of Contents

Principal Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: Theories of Truth
Chapter 2. In search of a theological epistemology: mediations and witnessing
Chapter 3. The dynamics of witnessing to truth
Chapter 4. Christ the true Witness
Chapter 5. Christian believers, witnesses in the Witness
Chapter 6. Is 'witnessing' a philosophically rigorous category?
Conclusion: manifestations of Christian witnessing
Bibliography

Product details

Published Jan 08 2026
Format Hardback
Edition 1st
Extent 160
ISBN 9781666976557
Imprint T&T Clark
Dimensions 229 x 152 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Paul O'Callaghan

Paul O’Callaghan is professor of theological anthr…

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