This collection of studies in theology is written from the perspective of one from within the Christian faith, and seeking greater understanding of the doctrinal deposit of that faith. As a leading scholar in Christian and analytic theology, Oliver D. Crisp summarizes and analyses Christian doctrine, written in the form of traditional dogmatics.
Beginning with issues concerning the task of theology, Crisp explores the challenges to systematic theology as a discipline, the uses of Scripture in theological discourse, and the reception of the theology of John Calvin. He then moves issues at the centre of serious theological debate in recent theology, the relationship between God and abstract objects in the thought of Jonathan Edwards, and theological anthropology. This volume culminates with studies that focus on central and defining issues in contemporary systematic and philosophical theology, taking forward a constructive theological program in dialogue with important figures in the Christian tradition, and engaged with some of the best contemporary theological scholarship.
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Acknowledgements
Preface
I. The Task of Theology
1. Challenges for Systematic Theology
2. Receiving Calvin
II. God and Creation
3. Edwards on Creation and Divine Ideas
4. Girardeau on Human Free Will
5. Zwingli on Original Sin
III. Christ and Salvation
6. Assuming Human Flesh
7. The Vicarious Humanity of Christ
8. Edwards’s atonement quandary
9. Character and True Virtue
Bibliography
Index
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There are many things to appreciate in this volume. First, it is a well-written academic word. Second, Crisp elucidates the depth and breadth of Reformed thinking. Thrid, he provides primary sources in footnotes when dealing with theologians of the past (Calvin, Zwingli, Edwards, and others). Fourth, the trajectory of his thought is mapped out in the preface, which serves as a foretaste of what he has baked in his theological oven. He also clarifies that some chapters were presented in different settings. That does not make the various topics disconnected though since Crisp weaves them together in a traditional dogmatics structure.
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The essays in this book trace a short summation of Christian doctrine across seven major chapters.
Provides a series of theological "soundings" concerning live issues in contemporary systematic and philosophical theology
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ISBN
9780567689542
Publisert
2020-01-09
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T.& T.Clark Ltd
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408 gr
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216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
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Engelsk
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Antall sider
224
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