The Knowledge Of God Essays On God Christ And Church

Author : Michael Allen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567699381

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The Knowledge of God: Essays on God, Christ, and Church by Michael Allen Pdf

The Knowledge of God turns to consider the knowledge of God revealed in the Word of God, with several essays addressing the doctrine of God, then the person of Christ, and finally the miracle of the church. Michael Allen shows the exegetical shape of historical and dogmatic reasoning as well as the significance of thinking about these topics in their interrelationships with a range of other Christian themes, not least the doctrine of the living and true God. In each of these topics, the theme of the promise and nature of God's presence (whether in his own life or then in the economy of the incarnation and of the church) proves to be a unifying thread. The gospel is shown to be rooted backward in God's own life and to have consequence forward for the ongoing life of Christ displayed in his church. This volume explores what it means to learn of and come to know God, who has life in himself and then shares his life with us in the coming of his Son and the ongoing presence amidst his body, the church of Christ.

Author : Michael Allen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567699404

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The Knowledge of God by Michael Allen Pdf

The Knowledge of God turns to consider the knowledge of God revealed in the Word of God, with several essays addressing the doctrine of God, then the person of Christ, and finally the miracle of the church. Michael Allen shows the exegetical shape of historical and dogmatic reasoning as well as the significance of thinking about these topics in their interrelationships with a range of other Christian themes, not least the doctrine of the living and true God. In each of these topics, the theme of the promise and nature of God's presence (whether in his own life or then in the economy of the incarnation and of the church) proves to be a unifying thread. The gospel is shown to be rooted backward in God's own life and to have consequence forward for the ongoing life of Christ displayed in his church. This volume explores what it means to learn of and come to know God, who has life in himself and then shares his life with us in the coming of his Son and the ongoing presence amidst his body, the church of Christ.

Author : Peter Van Inwagen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781501745324

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God, Knowledge, and Mystery by Peter Van Inwagen Pdf

In a book that will appeal to a general audience as well as philosophers of religion, a leading metaphysician tackles fundamental theological problems in a lucid and engaging manner. Peter van Inwagen begins with a provocative new introduction exploring the question of whether a philosopher such as himself is qualified to address theological matters. The chapters that follow take up the central problem of evil in a world created and sustained by God.

Author : Paul Basden,David S. Dockery
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725226425

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The People of God by Paul Basden,David S. Dockery Pdf

The term Believers' Church refers to those who regard the church as the fellowship of regenerate followers of Jesus Christ. Membership in these churches is founded on a voluntary confession of Jesus as Lord. Each member has access to God in worship and prayer and accepts responsibility for carrying the gospel to the world. The Word of God serves as the final authority in all matters of faith and practice. Written by capable thinkers in the Believers' Church tradition, The People of God addresses key issues in the area of ecclesiology. The contributions represent a wide variety of mature theological reflection. Exploring these ecclesiological concerns from a theological, biblical, historical, and contemporary perspective, these essays reflect the unity and diversity of the Believers' Church heritage.

Author : Douglas Wilson
Publisher : Canon Press & Book Service
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : God
ISBN : 9781591280316

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Knowledge, Foreknowledge, and the Gospel by Douglas Wilson Pdf

When we say, "God is an omniscient God," what does that really mean? Some deny this doctrine, arguing that since God has given us "free will," it must be impossible for Him to see and know all things. But as Doug Wilson points out, if we want to worship an ignorant God, then we will become an ignorant people. This essay works through key biblical texts which demonstrate God's all-seeing, all-knowing nature. As Wilson explains what they teach us about the Gospel and our salvation, it becomes clear that the doctrine of omniscience ends not in puppet-like slavery but in the freedom which comes from serving a God whose knowledge is complete.

Author : Robert Jefferson Breckinridge
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Theology, Doctrinal
ISBN : YALE:39002014792593

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The Knowledge of God ... by Robert Jefferson Breckinridge Pdf

Author : A. W. Tozer
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : EAN:8596547003885

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The Knowledge of the Holy by A. W. Tozer Pdf

True religion confronts earth with heaven and brings eternity to bear upon time. The messenger of Christ, though he speaks from God, must also, as the Quakers used to say, "speak to the condition" of his hearers; otherwise he will speak a language known only to himself. His message must be not only timeless but timely. He must speak to his own generation. The message of this book does not grow out of these times but it is appropriate to them. It is called forth by a condition which has existed in the Church for some years and is steadily growing worse. I refer to the loss of the concept of majesty from the popular religious mind. The Church has surrendered her once lofty concept of God and has substituted for it one so low, so ignoble, as to be utterly unworthy of thinking, worshipping men. This she has done not deliberately, but little by little and without her knowledge; and her very unawareness only makes her situation all the more tragic.

Author : Michael Allen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567699282

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The Fear of the Lord by Michael Allen Pdf

This volume examines what it means to proceed in the path of wisdom by beginning with fear of God, that is, mindfulness always and everywhere of God's being and presence. Michael Allen describes the praxis of fearing the Lord, how that posture of contemplative pursuit marks the theological task and defines our theological method; in so doing it takes up the significant topics of divine revelation, theological exegesis, intellectual asceticism, and retrieval/ressourcement from a distinctly doctrinal perspective. In each of these conversations, doing theology in the presence of God functions as a consistent thread. God is not mere object but truly functions as subject in the process of theological growth, though God's presence and agency fund rather than negate creaturely theological responsibility. The Fear of the Lord: Essays on Theological Method explores some of the most central questions of contemporary theological method – revelation, Scripture, theological interpretation, retrieval, intellectual asceticism, scholastic method – by asking in each and every case what it means to think fundamentally of the perfect and present God involved and active in these spheres.

Author : John Webster
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567165138

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God Without Measure: Working Papers in Christian Theology by John Webster Pdf

In this two volume collection of essays, which forms a companion to The Domain of the Word, John Webster brings together studies of a range of topics in dogmatic and moral theology. This first volume, God and the Works of God, treats the themes of God's inner being and God's outer acts. After an overall account of the relation between God in himself and the economy of God's external works, there are studies of the divine aseity and of the theology of the eternal Son. These are followed by a set of essays on creation out of nothing; the relation between God and God's creatures; the nature of providence; the relation of soteriology and the doctrine of God; and the place of teaching about justification in Christian theology. Each of the essays explores the relation of theology proper to economy, and together they pose an understanding of Christian doctrine in which all theological teaching flows from the doctrine of the immanent Trinity.

Author : John Webster
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567658883

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Confessing God by John Webster Pdf

Put together as a companion volume to his earlier volume, Word and Church, in this book John Webster begins to give voice to a reordered conception of the substance of Christian teaching, at the heart of which lies a discovery of the content and consequences of Christian teaching about God's perfection. Webster gives the readers a worked example of 'theological theology', that is, Christian theology which takes its rise in the Christian confession of the gospel which seeks to hear, celebrate and commend. This classic volume from one of the leading theologians in the world remains an important contribution to the field of systematic theology. For this Cornerstones edition Webster has written a new preface in which he sets the work against the current debate and his own current theology.

Author : Lincoln Harvey
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781532611964

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Essays on the Trinity by Lincoln Harvey Pdf

This volume gathers together twelve essays on the doctrine of the Trinity. It includes the work of systematic theologians, analytic theologians, and biblical scholars who address a range of issues concerning the Christian doctrine of God. Contributors include Jeremy Begbie, Julie Canlis, Douglas Campbell, William Hasker, and Christoph Schwöbel. The volume also includes a new essay written by the late Robert W. Jenson shortly before his death.

Author : David J. Downs,Matthew L. Skinner
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802867674

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The Unrelenting God by David J. Downs,Matthew L. Skinner Pdf

Is God still, as it has been argued, the "neglected factor" in New Testament theology? How does the Bible speak imaginatively and concretely about who God is and what God's activity on behalf of the world looks like? In The Unrelenting God sixteen accomplished scholars in the fields of biblical and theological studies explore ways in which Scripture speaks about God's character and God's activity in the world. As honoree Beverly Roberts Gaventa has done throughout her career, the contributors address important and nuanced theological themes such as God's dramatic invasion of the world in the gospel of Jesus Christ, God's ultimate triumph over the powers of sin and death, and humanity's ongoing participation with God in Christ. Scholars, students, and church leaders will appreciate this volume's careful theological interpretation of whole scriptural books and individual passages -- and its ability to model instructively how that interpretation is best done. Contributors: Shane Berg Martinus C. de Boer Alexandra R. Brown William Sanger Campbell David J. Downs Susan Grove Eastman Joel B. Green Douglas Harink Richard B. Hays L. Ann Jervis Jacqueline E. Lapsley J. Louis Martyn John B. F. Miller Matthew L. Skinner Katherine Sonderegger Francis Watson Michael Welker

Author : Michael Allen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781108840446

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The New Cambridge Companion to Christian Doctrine by Michael Allen Pdf

This Companion guides the reader through the main topics and the most significant methods for practicing Christian theology. The essays in this first part engage the ten most notable loci in Christian doctrine. The ten essays in the second part address the most significant movements that have broad impact upon the practice of Christian doctrine.

Author : Kevin J. Vanhoozer
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830893799

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Pictures at a Theological Exhibition by Kevin J. Vanhoozer Pdf

Many Christians are held captive by a picture of the imagination as a purveyor of false images, prone to idolatry. We live in a society fixated on images that have little or no significance. We are surrounded by models of the world that are not in touch with any truth outside of themselves. But we lack the resources to see and imagine things differently. Kevin Vanhoozer calls the church to a more biblical and premodern picture, one that sees every particular person, thing and event in the light of God's act of reconciling the world to himself in Christ. Through essays on the church's worship, witness and wisdom, Vanhoozer shows us how a poetic imagination can answer the questions of life's meaning by drawing our attention to what really matters: the God of the gospel.

Author : Stanley Hauerwas
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608997107

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Christian Existence Today by Stanley Hauerwas Pdf

Stanley Hauerwas begins this volume with a vigorous response to the charge of sectarianism leveled against his work by James Gustafson, among others. "Show me where I am wrong about God, Jesus, the limits of liberalism, the nature of the virtues, or the doctrine of the church," Hauerwas replies to his critics, "but do not shortcut that task by calling me a sectarian."The essays that follow explore in a lucid, compelling, firm, and provocative way the church's nature, message, and ministry in the world. Hauerwas writes on the church as God's new language, on clerical character, on the pastor as prophet, on the ministry of the local congregation, on grace and public virtue, and on the relation of church and university.Underlying Hauerwas's argument is his conviction that "the most important knowledge Christian convictions involve, and there is much worth knowing for which Christians have no special claim, requires a transformation of the self. Christianity is no 'world view,' not a form of primitive metaphysics, that can be assessed in comparison to alternative 'world views.' Rather, Christians are people who remain convinced that the truthfulness of their beliefs must be demonstrated in their lives. There is a sense in which Christian convictions are self-referential, but the reference is not to propositions but to lives."