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" Systematic theology / "
Anthony C. Thiselton.
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850148
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Thiselton, Anthony C.
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Systematic theology /\ Anthony C. Thiselton.
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Grand Rapids, Michigan :: Eerdmans Publishing Company,, 2015.
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1 online resource (xiv, 453 pages)
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1467444138
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0802872727
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9780802872722
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Preface; Abbreviations; I. Method and Truth; 1. The Need for Coherence and Objections to "System"; 2. Truth, Theology, and Philosophy: The New Testament and Earlier Church Fathers; 3. Truth, Theology, and the Bible in Historical Context; 4. A Further Aspect of Philosophy: Conceptual "Grammar"; 5. Speech -- Acts, Hermeneutics, Sociology, and Literary Theory; II. God: Personhood, Trinity, Holy Love, and Grace; 1. God: Impersonal, Personal, or Suprapersonal?; 2. God as Holy Trinity: Complication or Confirmation?; 3. The Living God or "Theism"?; 4. God as Holy Life -- Giver and Loving Creator.
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1. The Gospel Defined in Terms of the Cross, and the Cross Defined in Terms of God's Grace2. The Transparent Meanings of Redemption and Salvation; 3. Two Further Transparent Presuppositions: Mediation and Sacrifice; 4. Complementary Models of the Atonement; 5. Expiation and/or Propitiation? Paul's Distinctive Idea of Reconciliation; IX. Why Consider Historical Theologies of the Atonement? Historical Thought and Hermeneutics; 1. The Atonement in the Early Church; 2. The Post -- Nicene Period; 3. Anselm and Abelard; 4. The Reformation: Luther and Calvin; 5. Varied Approaches in the Modern Period.
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2. The Unity of Human Nature, in Contrast to Mind -- Body Dualism3. The Diversity of Human Capacities; 4. The Intervention of Sin and Alienation: Biblical Vocabulary; 5. Understandings of the Universal Nature of Sin and the Fall, Notably in Paul; VII. Misdirected Desire and Alienation: A Hermeneutical Comparison of Historical Thinkers; 1. The Ante -- Nicene Church Fathers; 2. The Post -- Nicene Church Fathers; 3. The Medieval and Reformation Periods; 4. The Early Modern Period; 5. The Twentieth Century Onward; VIII. Jesus Christ the Mediator.
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5. Between Atheism and Theism: Deism, Pantheism, and AgnosticismV. The Nonhuman Creation, and Ordinances for Human Welfare; 1. The Creation and Work of Angels, Mainly in the Biblical Canon; 2. Angels in Postcanonical Judaism and in Historical Christian Thought; 3. The Creation and Status of Animals: Is Creation Centered on Humankind?; 4. Human Ordering: Political Communities, Marriage, and Justice; 5. Modern Concerns for the Limitation of the State, and Justice for All; VI. Human Potentiality and the Image of God; 1. The Image of God: Human Beings Becoming "Persons."
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5. God as the Giver of GraceIII. God and the World; 1. The God of Love and the Problem of Evil; 2. Can We Argue from "Cause" to God's Existence? God's Transcendence; 3. The Argument from Design, and Modern Science; 4. The Argument from Necessity: The Ontological Argument; 5. Almighty, Omniscient, and Omnipresent: Their Meaning; IV. The Challenge of Atheism: Lessons for Christians; 1. The Origins of Atheism: A Simple, Materialist View of Humankind; 2. "God" as a Human Projection: Feuerbach and Freud; 3. "God" and Social Manipulation: Nietzsche and Marx; 4. The Attack on Revelation.
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This book explores theology as a living, organic whole, while comprehensively examining the spectrum of Christian doctrine with an eye to practical application for Christian discipleship.
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Theology, Doctrinal.
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RELIGION-- Christian Theology-- Systematic.
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RELIGION-- Christianity-- General.
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Theology, Doctrinal.
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230/.041
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BT75.3.T45 2015eb
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