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Readings in Christian Theology

Readings in Christian TheologyReadings in Christian Theology

Readings in Christian Theology

Peter C. Hodgson (Editor), Robert H. King (Editor)

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From Augustine to Gutierrez, from Creation to Eschatology, this volume:

  • provides a rich selection of the most important readings from classical, modern, and contemporary theologians
  • covers all the major doctrines of Christian belief
  • is carefully edited to provide key passages and concentrated readings
  • can be used in conjunction with such introductions as Christian Theology and Reconstructing Christian Theology.
  • Publisher Fortress Press
  • Format Paperback
  • ISBN 9780800618490
  • Dimensions 6 x 9
  • Pages 432
  • Publication Date May 1, 1985

Endorsements

"Very well done. It provides basic material on the central ideas of the Christian faith...an excellent format. It is easily read, serves well as a reference, and is—I believe—an important contribution to the library of anyone who is interested in Christian theology."
— Paul M. Edwards, Saints Herald

Table of Contents

    Preface

  1. Theology
     1. Farley: Theologia—The History of a Concept
    2. Ogden: What Is Theology?

  2. Scripture and Tradition
     1. Origen: The Threefold Sense of Scripture
    2. Calvin: With the Aid of Spectacles
    3. Möhler; Tradition as the Living Word
    4. Hodge: The Protestant Rule of Faith
    5. Rahner: Scripture as the church's Book
    6. Kelsey: The Function of Scripture

  3. God
     1. Augustine: Revelation as Illumination
    2. Luther: Revelation by Word and Spirit
    3. Thomas Aquinas: Language About God
    4. Hartshorne: The Divine Relativity
    5. Barth: The Humanity of God
    6. Tillich: Theism Transcended

  4. Revelation
     1. Augustine: Revelation as Illumination
    2. Luther: Revelation by Word and Spirit
    3. Tindal: Reason and Revelation
    4. Barth: Revelation as God's Self-Disclosure
    5. Bultmann: Revelation and Human Existence
    6. Rahner: The Supernatural Existential
    7. Pannenberg: Revelation and History
    8. Niebuhr: The Revelatory Image

  5. Creation and Providence
     1. Augustine: In the Beginning God Created
    2. Calvin: God's Providence Governs All
    3. Spinoza: Deus Sive Natura, Causa Omnium
    4. Hegel: Without the World God Is Not God
    5. Ford: Divine Persuasion
    6. Tillich: God's Originating, Sustaining, and Directing Creativity

  6. Human Being
     1. Augustine: Body, Soul, Will, and the Image of God
    2. Schleiermacher: The Human Subject
    3. Barth: Christ and Adam
    4. Niebuhr: Human Beings as Creatures and Sinners
    5. Rahner: Persons as Free and Responsible Subjects

  7. Sin and Evil
     1. Augustine: Free Will and Sin
    2. Luther: Sin and Grace
    3. Tennant: Difficulties in the Classic Doctrine
    4. Kierkegaard: sin as Despair
    5. Niebuhr: The Pride of Power
    6. Ricoeur: Paradox of the Servile Will
    7. Farrer: Beyond Augustinian Theodicy

  8. Christ and Salvation
     1. The Nicene Creed: Homousios with the Father
    2. Athanasius: Truly Human, Truly God
    3. The chalcedonian Definition: One Person, Two Natures
    4. Anselm: The Logic of Atonement
    5. Schleiermacher: The Work of Christ
    6. Bultmann: Faith in the Cross
    7. Barth: Lord as Servant, Servant as Lord
    8. Moltmann: The Crucified God

  9. The Church
     1. Cyprian: The Unity of the Church
    2. Thomas Aquinas: The Soul of the Church
    3. The Second Helvetic Confession: Christ the Sole Head of the Church
    4. Schleiermacher: The Fellowship of Believers
    5. Gustafson: The Church as a Human Community
    6. Parish: The Black Christian Tradition
    7. Gutiérrez: Sacrament of Liberation

  10. The Sacraments
     1. Cyril of Jerusalem: Christian Initiation
    2. Ambrose: The Eucharistic Miracle
    3. Luther: Baptism and Faith
    4. Kant: Sacraments and the Moral Community
    5. Schmemann: Christ Our Eucharist
    6. Rahner: The Self-Communication of God

  11. Spirit and the Christian Life
     1. Isaac of Syria; Directions on Spiritual Training
    2. Thomas Aquinas: Action and Contemplation
    3. John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila: The Mystical Way
    4. Law: Call to a Devout and Holy Life
    5. Rauschenbusch: Theology and the Social Gospel
    6. Williams: Christian Spirituality

  12. The Kingdom of God and Life Everlasting
     1. Irenaeus: New Heavens and a New Earth
    2. Origen: The Consummation of All Things
    3. Augustine: The Eternal Happiness of the Saints
    4. Schleiermacher: The Consummation of the church and Personal Survival
    5. Bultmann: Jesus Christ as the Eschatological Event
    6. Tillich: Kairos
    7. Pannenberg: Eschatology and the Experience of Meaning
    8. Moltmann: The Resurrection as Hope

  13. The Religious
     1. Justin Martyr: In Defense of Christianity
    2. Troeltsch: The Absoluteness and Relativity of Christianity
    3. Barth: Critique of Christianity as a Religion
    4. Panneberg: Christianity in the History of Religions
    5. Cobb: Beyond Dialogue

  14. The Christian Paradigm: Alternative Visions
     1. Niebuhr: Radical Monotheism
    2. Come: The social Context of Theology
    3. Gutiérrez: Orthopraxis, Not Orthodoxy
    4. Ruether: The Prophetic, Iconoclastic Christ
    5. Hick: One God, Many Images
    6. Kaufman: Divine Power, Human Responsibilities, and the Nuclear Threat

    Acknowledgments
    Index of Authors and Selections
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