The Christian Faith : An introduction to Christian Doctrine
Gunton Colin E., ; The Christian Faith: An introduction to Christian Doctrine / Gunton, Colin E.
Malden, USA: Blackwell Publishing, 2002. —
ББК 230 / Gun / 2002
Зміст:
CONTENTS Part 1. Foundations Maker of Heaven and Earth -- pg. 1 Chapter 1. Establishing: The Doctrine of Creation -- pg. 3 1. The Mediation of Creation -- pg. 3 2. The Meaning of the Doctrine of Creation -- pg. 10 Creator and Creation -- pg. 15 Chapter 2. Providence -- pg. 20 4. The Historical Context: Modern -- pg. 20 5. The Historical Context: Ancient -- pg. 23 6. The Content of the doctrine of Providence -- pg. 33 Chapter 3. Man and Woman -- pg. 38 8. Matter and spirit -- pg. 38 9. Personal being -- pg. 43 10. The blessings of Finitude -- pg. 47 11. Scripture and Theology -- pg. 51 12. Conclusion to Part 1: God the Father -- pg. 55 Part 2. ‘His Only Son, Our Lord’ -- pg. 57 Chapter 4 ‘Suffered Under Pontius Pilate’:
A Theology of Salvation -- pg. 59
13.The Concept of Sin -- pg. 59 14.Creation and Salvation -- pg. 63 15.The People of the Promise -- pg. 68
16.The Achievement of Salvation -- pg. 71 Chapter 5. The Identity of Jesus Christ -- pg. 78 17.To Set the Scene -- pg. 78 18.The Framework of Christology -- pg. 85 19.The Problem of Dogma -- pg. 91 Chapter 6. ‘And Was Made Man’: The Incarnation and
Humanity of Christ -- pg. 97
20.The ‘Becoming’ of God the Son -- pg. 97 21.Death and the Kingdom -- pg. 102 22.Priesthood Realized -- pg. 109 23.Conclusion to Part 2: God the Son -- pg. 114 Part 3. The Perfecting Cause: ‘And in the Holy Spirit’ -- pg. 117 Chapter 7. Christian Community and Human Society -- pg. 119 24. Some Lessons of Christian History -- pg. 119 25.The Words of Proclamation and of Scripture -- pg. 123 26.The Elect Community -- pg. 126 27. The Church and the Social Order -- pg. 135 Chapter 8. The Shape of the Christian Life -- pg. 139 28.Justification: Living by Faith Alone -- pg. 139 29.Baptism -- pg. 145 30.Sanctification : Living in the Realm of the Holy -- pg. 147 31.Resurrection -- pg. 152 32.Spirit of Freedom -- pg. 155 Chapter 9. The Last Enemy -- pg. 157 33/ Death -- pg. 157 34. Judgement -- pg. 161 35. Rdemption -- pg. 166 Conclusion -- pg. 173 Chapter 10. The Triune God of Christian Confession -- pg. 175
36. Experience Redeemed -- pg. 175 37. 'Economic' and ' Immanent' Trinities -- pg. 179 38. The Difference the Trinity Makes -- pg. 188 General Index -- pg. 192 Index of Biblical References -- pg. 195
Анотація:
This wide-ranging volume is a condensation of the author’s lifetime of study and thought about the Christian faith. Broad in scope, the book deliberately follows the pattern of Schleiermacher’s great nineteenth-century dogmatics. Professor Gunton, however, uses a different method and approach and ends with a far more robust treatment of the objective existence of the eternally triune God.
The book is divided into three parts, corresponding to the three main divisions of the creed. Beginning with consideration of creation and providence, it moves on to the person and work of Christ, and then to the human appropriation of belief and eschatology. A concluding chapter brings together, in a treatment of the Trinity, a discussion of the divine attributes and the doctrine of God that has been revealed in the process of the book’s argument.
This concise statement of the contents of Christian teaching will prove invaluable to students of introductory theology, as well as anyone interested in the central claim of the Christian faith to be true.