Come, Let Us Reason Together

"""John Oman excelled as pastor, college principal, theologian, and philosopher. In this model biography, Fleur Houston sets a good man in context and brings him to life."" --Clyde Binfield, professor emeritus in history, University of Sheffield ""The warmest welcome to this detailed intellectual biography of one of the most original and creative British theologians of the late-nineteenth and first-half-twentieth centuries. Rooted in his Presbyterian Reformed tradition yet resolutely pursuing truth in dialogue with contemporary philosophies, John Wood Oman's wrestling with the realities of God and freedom, grace and personality, resonate powerfully and provocatively today when 'relationality' has become a vogue word in theology yet always in need of deeper reflection."" --Keith Clements, former general secretary, Conference of European Churches ""In this extensive biography of the great Cambridge theologian John Wood Oman, Fleur Houston brings careful and detailed historical research together with profound and rich theological expertise to create an insightful and moving story of both the man and the era in which he lived. Contemporary theology--and, indeed, spirituality--can profit greatly from Houston's scholarship and Oman's wisdom."" --Stephen Bevans, SVD, professor of mission and culture, Catholic Theological Union, Chicago ""In this scholarly and sympathetic biography, Fleur Houston has provided a valuable account of John Oman's life and work. Drawing upon archival and published materials, she charts the development of his thought from its germination in Orkney to its fruition in Cambridge. Her biography will add significantly to our appreciation and understanding of an important theological figure of the early twentieth century."" --David Fergusson, regius professor of divinity, Magdalen College, University of Cambridge ""Fleur Houston is the biographer John Oman has been waiting for. From his Orcadian childhood to his glory days as a distinguished philosopher of religion in Cambridge, her beautifully written and meticulously researched scholarship illumines his work as minister, church leader, and professor. She casts new and significant light on Oman whom we see anew as one of the most original and creative Christian thinkers of the first half of the twentieth century."" --David Cornick, emeritus fellow, Robinson College, University of Cambridge"