| Description |
xv, 319 pages ; 22 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 293-306. |
| Contents |
I. Scriptural sources. The gospel of Thomas -- The picture of Jesus in the synoptic gospels -- The gospel of John and the epistles of Paul -- II. The mystery of the Trinity. Philo of Alexandria -- Pre-Nicene trinities -- Monarchism -- Arianism -- Augustine and the coequal Trinity -- Karl Rahner's distinctions between the persons -- III. The mystery of the Incarnation. Early heresies -- Gnosticism -- Apollinarianism -- Nestorianism -- Monophysitism -- IV. The atonement. |
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Abelard's moral influence theory -- Luther's doctrine of justification by faith -- V. The fall and original sin. Original sin among the early fathers -- Reinhold Niebuhr -- VI. The age of natural theology -- VII. Authority and revelation. Infallibility -- Kierkegaard and the absurd -- VIII. Discovering the foundations. Mystical union -- Personalistic mysticism -- The foundation theory -- The coherence theory -- The pragmatic theory -- Epilogue. Christianity and other |
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religions -- The theology of liberation -- Feminist Theology. |
| Subject |
Theology, Doctrinal -- History.
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| Indexed Term |
Christian theology, to 1986 |
| ISBN |
0195037162 |
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0195037170 paperback |
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