LECTURES IN DEFENCE OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH F. GODET 1st/1st 1881 ORTHODOX CHRIST

  LECTURES IN DEFENCE OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH, by FREDERIC Louis GODET ~ First Edition / First Printing, 1881 ORTHODOX CHRISTIANITY

 Publisher: Anson D.F. Randolph & Company, New York (1881)

First (translated) edition from 1881 of "Lectures in Defence of the Christian Faith," by Professor Frederic Louis Godet. Translated by W.H. Lyttelton. In excellent condition. The book provides justification and necessity for the continued support of the Orthodox Christian Church, at a time when Christian Liberalism swept across Europe in the later part of the 19th century. The boards and binding are solid and tight, with little wear. Minor shelf-wear to boards and binding. The pages are crisp and clean. Please see below for more information on Frederic Louis Godet.

Biography

Frederic Louis Godet (1812-1900), one of the most influential Swiss Protestant reformed scholars of his day was educated at the University of Neuchatel in Switzerland, studied Theology at Bonn and Berlin and was ordained to the ministry in 1836. From 1850 to 1873, he was professor of Biblica Exegesis and Critical Theology at the Theological School of the National Swiss Church of the canton. In 1873, he became one of the founders of the Free Evangelical Church of Neuchatel, professor of New Testament Exegesis in the Free Evangelical Theological School and a firm defender of the Orthodox Christian faith in a growing sea of liberalism. Among Godet's best known writings are  Studies in the Old Testament, Studies in the New Testament, Studies in Paul's Epistles, and Lectures in Defense of the Christian Faith.