Christian theology : an introduction /

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Author / Creator:McGrath, Alister E., 1953-
Imprint:Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass., USA : Blackwell, 1994.
Description:xviii, 510 p. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1552178
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ISBN:0631160787 (alk. paper)
0631160795 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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505 0 0 |g Pt. I.  |t Landmarks: Periods, Themes, and Personalities of Christian Theology.  |g 1.  |t The Patristic Period, c.100-451.  |t A Clarification of Terms.  |t An Overview of the Patristic Period.  |t Key Theologians.  |t Justin Martyr.  |t Irenaeus of Lyons.  |t Origen.  |t Tertullian.  |t Athanasius.  |t Augustine of Hippo.  |t Key Theological Developments.  |t The extent of the New Testament canon.  |t The role of tradition.  |t The fixing of the ecumenical creeds.  |t The two natures of Jesus Christ.  |t The doctrine of the Trinity.  |t The doctrine of the church.  |t The doctrine of grace.  |g 2.  |t The Middle Ages and the Renaissance, c.1000-c.1500.  |t A Clarification of Terms.  |t The Middle Ages.  |t The Renaissance.  |t Scholasticism.  |t Humanism.  |t Key Theologians.  |t Anselm of Canterbury.  |t Thomas Aquinas.  |t Duns Scotus.  |t William of Ockham.  |t Erasmus of Rotterdam.  |t Key Theological Developments.  |t The consolidation of the patristic heritage.  |t The exploration of the role of reason in theology.  |t The development of theological systems.  |t The development of sacramental theology.  |t The development of the theology of grace.  |t The role of Mary in the scheme of salvation.  |t Returning directly to the sources of Christian theology.  |t The critique of the Vulgate translation of Scripture.  |g 3.  |t The Reformation and Post-Reformation Periods, c.1500-c.1700.  |t A Clarification of Terms.  |t The Lutheran Reformation.  |t The Calvinist Reformation.  |t The Radical Reformation (Anabaptism).  |t The Catholic Reformation.  |t Key Theologians.  |t Martin Luther.  |t John Calvin.  |t Huldrych Zwingli.  |t Key Theological Developments.  |t The sources of theology.  |t The doctrine of grace.  |t The doctrine of the sacraments.  |t The doctrine of the church.  |t The Post-Reformation Movement: Confessionalism and Scholasticism.  |t Pietism.  |g 4.  |t The Modern Period, c.1700-the Present.  |t The Enlightenment.  |t The Enlightenment and Protestantism.  |t The Enlightenment critique of Christian theology: a general overview.  |t The Enlightenment critique of Christian theology: Specific issues.  |t Theological Movements since the Enlightenment.  |t Romanticism.  |t Marxism.  |t Liberal Protestantism.  |t Modernism.  |t Neo-Orthodoxy.  |t Feminism.  |t Postmodernism.  |t Liberation theology.  |t Black theology.  |t Postliberalism.  |t Evangelicalism --  |g Pt. II.  |t Sources and Methods.  |g 5.  |t Getting Started: Preliminaries.  |t A Working Definition of Theology.  |t The Architecture of Theology.  |t Biblical studies.  |t Systematic theology.  |t Historical theology.  |t Pastoral theology.  |t Philosophical theology.  |t The Question of Prolegomena.  |t The Nature of Faith.  |t Faith and knowledge.  |t Faith and salvation.  |t Aquinas and Luther compared.  |t Can God's Existence be Proved?  |t The ontological argument.  |t Thomas Aquinas' Five Ways.  |t The Nature of Theological Language.  |t Analogy.  |t Metaphor.  |t Accommodation.  |t A case study: the Copernican debate.  |t Commitment and Neutrality in Theology.  |t Orthodoxy and Heresy.  |t Historical aspects.  |t Theological aspects.  |g 6.  |t The Sources of Theology.  |t The Idea of Revelation.  |t Models of Revelation.  |t Revelation as doctrine.  |t Revelation as presence.  |t Revelation as experience.  |t Revelation as history.  |t Natural Theology: Its Scope and Limits.  |t Knowledge of God the Creator - Knowledge of God the Redeemer.  |t The Barth-Brunner debate.  |t Scripture.  |t Old and New Testaments.  |t The Word of God.  |t Narrative theology.  |t Methods of interpretation of Scripture.  |t Theories of the inspiration of Scripture.  |t Reason.  |t Reason and revelation: Three models.  |t Deism.  |t Enlightenment rationalism.  |t Criticisms of Enlightenment rationalism.  |t Tradition.  |t A single-source theory of tradition.  |t A dual-source theory of tradition.  |t The total rejection of tradition.  |t Theology and worship: the importance of liturgical tradition.  |t Religious experience.  |t Existentialism: a philosophy of human experience.  |t Experience and theology: two models.  |t Feuerbach's critique of experience-based theologies --  |g Pt. III.  |t Christian Theology.  |g 7.  |t The Doctrine of God.  |t Is God Male?  |t A Personal God.  |t Defining "person"  |t Dialogical personalism.  |t Can God Suffer?  |t The classic view: the impassibility of God.  |t A suffering God.  |t The death of God?  |t The Omnipotence of God.  |t Defining omnipotence.  |t The two powers of God.  |t The notion of divine self-limitation.  |t God in Process Thought.  |t Theodicies: The Problem of Evil.  |t Irenaeus.  |t Augustine.  |t Karl Barth.  |t Recent contributions.  |t God as Creator.  |t Implications of the doctrine of creation.  |t Models of God as Creator.  |t God's presence within the world.  |t The Holy Spirit.  |t Models of the Holy Spirit.  |t The debate over the divinity of the Holy Spirit.  |t Augustine: The spirit as bond of love.  |g 8.  |t The Doctrine of the Trinity.  |t The Biblical Foundations of the Trinity.  |t The Historical Development of the Doctrine: The Terms.  |t The Historical Development of the Doctrine: The Ideas.  |t Perichoresis.  |t Appropriation.  |t Two Trinitarian Heresies.  |t Modalism.  |t Tritheism.  |t The Trinity: Four Models.  |t Augustine.  |t Karl Barth.  |t Robert Jenson.  |t John Macquarrie.  |t The filioque Controversy.  |g 9.  |t The Doctrine of the Person of Christ.  |t The Relation between Christology and Soteriology.  |t The Place of Jesus Christ in Christian Theology.  |t Jesus Christ is the historical point of departure for Christianity.  |t Jesus Christ reveals God.  |t Jesus Christ is the bearer of salvation.  |t Jesus Christ defines the shape of the redeemed life.  |t New Testament Christological Affirmations.  |t Messiah.  |t Son of God.  |t Son of Man.  |t Lord.  |t God.  |t The Patristic Debate over the Person of Christ.  |t Early contributions: from Justin Martyr to Origen.  |t The Arian Controversy.  |t The Alexandrian School.  |t The Antiochene School.  |t The "communication of attributes"  |t Adolf von Harnack on the evolution of patristic Christology.  |t Models of Divine Presence in Christ.  |t The example of a Godly life.  |t A symbolic presence.  |t Christ as mediator.  |t Presence of the Spirit.  |t Revelational presence.  |t Substantial presence.  |t Kenotic approaches to Christology.  |g 10.  |t Faith and History: A New Christological Agenda.  |t The Enlightenment and Christology.  |t The critique of miracles.  |t The development of doctrinal criticism.  |t The Problem of Faith and History.  |t The chronological difficulty.  |t The metaphysical difficulty.  |t The existential difficulty.  |t The Quest of the Historical Jesus.  |t The original quest of the historical Jesus.  |t The quest for the religious personality of Jesus.  |t The critique of the quest, 1890-1910.  |t The retreat from history: Rudolf Bultmann.  |t The new quest of the historical Jesus.  |t The Resurrection of Christ: Event and Meaning.  |t The Enlightenment: the Resurrection as non-event.  |t David Friedrich Strauss: the Resurrection as myth.  |t Rudolf Bultmann: the Resurrection as an event in the experience of the disciples.  |t Karl Barth: the Resurrection as an historical event beyond critical inquiry.  |t Wolfhart Pannenberg: the Resurrection as an historical event open to critical inquiry.  |t Resurrection and the Christian hope.  |g 11.  |t The Doctrine of Salvation in Christ.  |t Christian Approaches to Salvation.  |t Salvation is linked with Jesus Christ.  |t Salvation is shaped by Jesus Christ.  |t The eschatological dimension of salvation.  |t The Foundations of Salvation: The Cross of Christ.  |t The cross as a sacrifice.  |t The cross as a victory.  |t The cross and forgiveness.  |t The cross as a moral example.  |t The Nature of Salvation in Christ.  |t Deification.  |t Righteousness in the sight of God.  |t Authentic human existence.  |t Political liberation.  |t Spiritual freedom.  |t The Scope of Salvation in Christ.  |t Universalism: all will be saved.  |t Only believers will be saved.  |t Particular redemption: only the elect will be saved.  |g 12.  |t The Doctrines of Human Nature, Sin, and Grace.  |t The Place of Humanity within Creation.  |t The Pelagian Controversy.  |t The "freedom of the will"  |t The nature of sin.  |t The nature of grace.  |t The basis of salvation.  |t The Concepts of Grace and Merit.  |t Grace.  |t Merit.  |t The Doctrine of Justification by Faith.  |t Martin Luther's theological breakthrough.  |t Luther on justifying faith.  |t The notion of forensic justification.  |t Calvin on justification.  |t The Council of Trent on justification.  |t Justification in recent New Testament scholarship.  |t The Doctrine of Predestination.  |t Augustine of Hippo.  |t John Calvin.  |t Reformed orthodoxy.  |t Arminianism.  |t Karl Barth.  |t Predestination and economics: the Weber thesis. 
505 8 0 |g 13.  |t The Doctrine of the Church.  |t The Early Development of Ecclesiology.  |t The Donatist controversy.  |t Reformation Controversies.  |t Martin Luther.  |t John Calvin.  |t The radical Reformation view of the church.  |t The Notes of the Church.  |t "One"  |t "Holy"  |t "Catholic"  |t "Apostolic"  |g 14.  |t The Doctrine of the Sacraments.  |t The Definition of a Sacrament.  |t The Donatist Controversy: Sacramental Efficacy.  |t The Function of the Sacraments.  |t Sacraments convey grace.  |t Sacraments strengthen faith.  |t Sacraments enhance unity and commitment within the church.  |t Sacraments reassure us of God's promises toward us.  |t The Eucharist: The Question of the Real Presence.  |t Transubstantiation.  |t Consubstantiation.  |t A real absence: memorialism.  |t The Controversy over Infant Baptism.  |t Infant baptism remits the guilt of original sin.  |t Infant baptism is grounded in the covenant between God and the church.  |t Infant baptism is unjustified.  |g 15.  |t Christianity and the World Religions.  |t Western Pluralism and the Question of the Religions.  |t Approaches to Religions.  |t The Enlightenment: religions as a corruption of the original religion of nature.  |t Ludwig Feuerbach: religion as an objectification of human feeling.  |t Karl Marx: religion as the product of socio-economic alienation.  |t Sigmund Freud: religion as wish-fulfillment.  |t Emile Durkheim: religion and ritual.  |t Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer: religion as a human invention.  |t Christianity and other Religious Traditions: Three Theological Approaches.  |t The exclusivist approach.  |t The inclusivist approach.  |t The pluralist approach.  |g 16.  |t Last Things: The Christian Hope.  |t Developments in the Doctrine of the Last Things.  |t The New Testament.  |t Augustine: the two cities.  |t The Middle Ages: Joachim of Fiore and Dante Aligheri.  |t The Enlightenment: eschatology as superstition.  |t The rediscovery of eschatology.  |t Demythologization: Rudolf Bultmann.  |t The theology of hope: Jurgen Moltmann.  |t Dispensationalism.  |t The Last Things.  |t Hell.  |t Purgatory.  |t Heaven. 
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