From Augustine to Gutierrez, from Creation to Eschatology, this volume: provides a rich selection of the most important readings from classical, modern, and contemporary theologians covers all the major doctrines of Christian belief is carefully edited to provide key passages and concentrated readings can be used in conjunction with such introductions as Christian Theology and Reconstructing Christian Theology.
Robert H. King is formerly the Vice-President and Dean of Millsaps College. He is the author of The Meaning of God. Peter C. Hodgson is Charles G. Finney Professor of Theology Emeritus at Vanderbilt Divinity School, Nashville, and author of key works in both historical and constructive theology. He is a leading translator of the works of G.W.F. Hegel and the author of eleven books.
Preface Theology 1. Farley: Theologia-The History of a Concept 2. Ogden: What Is Theology? Scripture and Tradition 1. Origen: The Threefold Sense of Scripture 2. Calvin: With the Aid of Spectacles 3. Mohler; Tradition as the Living Word 4. Hodge: The Protestant Rule of Faith 5. Rahner: Scripture as the church's Book 6. Kelsey: The Function of Scripture God 1. Augustine: Revelation as Illumination 2. Luther: Revelation by Word and Spirit 3. Thomas Aquinas: Language About God 4. Hartshorne: The Divine Relativity 5. Barth: The Humanity of God 6. Tillich: Theism Transcended Revelation 1. Augustine: Revelation as Illumination 2. Luther: Revelation by Word and Spirit 3. Tindal: Reason and Revelation 4. Barth: Revelation as God's Self-Disclosure 5. Bultmann: Revelation and Human Existence 6. Rahner: The Supernatural Existential 7. Pannenberg: Revelation and History 8. Niebuhr: The Revelatory Image Creation and Providence 1. Augustine: In the Beginning God Created 2. Calvin: God's Providence Governs All 3. Spinoza: Deus Sive Natura, Causa Omnium 4. Hegel: Without the World God Is Not God 5. Ford: Divine Persuasion 6. Tillich: God's Originating, Sustaining, and Directing Creativity Human Being 1. Augustine: Body, Soul, Will, and the Image of God 2. Schleiermacher: The Human Subject 3. Barth: Christ and Adam 4. Niebuhr: Human Beings as Creatures and Sinners 5. Rahner: Persons as Free and Responsible Subjects Sin and Evil 1. Augustine: Free Will and Sin 2. Luther: Sin and Grace 3. Tennant: Difficulties in the Classic Doctrine 4. Kierkegaard: sin as Despair 5. Niebuhr: The Pride of Power 6. Ricoeur: Paradox of the Servile Will 7. Farrer: Beyond Augustinian Theodicy Christ and Salvation 1. The Nicene Creed: Homousios with the Father 2. Athanasius: Truly Human, Truly God 3. The chalcedonian Definition: One Person, Two Natures 4. Anselm: The Logic of Atonement 5. Schleiermacher: The Work of Christ 6. Bultmann: Faith in the Cross 7. Barth: Lord as Servant, Servant as Lord 8. Moltmann: The Crucified God The Church 1. Cyprian: The Unity of the Church 2. Thomas Aquinas: The Soul of the Church 3. The Second Helvetic Confession: Christ the Sole Head of the Church 4. Schleiermacher: The Fellowship of Believers 5. Gustafson: The Church as a Human Community 6. Parish: The Black Christian Tradition 7. Gutierrez: Sacrament of Liberation The Sacraments 1. Cyril of Jerusalem: Christian Initiation 2. Ambrose: The Eucharistic Miracle 3. Luther: Baptism and Faith 4. Kant: Sacraments and the Moral Community 5. Schmemann: Christ Our Eucharist 6. Rahner: The Self-Communication of God Spirit and the Christian Life 1. Isaac of Syria; Directions on Spiritual Training 2. Thomas Aquinas: Action and Contemplation 3. John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila: The Mystical Way 4. Law: Call to a Devout and Holy Life 5. Rauschenbusch: Theology and the Social Gospel 6. Williams: Christian Spirituality The Kingdom of God and Life Everlasting 1. Irenaeus: New Heavens and a New Earth 2. Origen: The Consummation of All Things 3. Augustine: The Eternal Happiness of the Saints 4. Schleiermacher: The Consummation of the church and Personal Survival 5. Bultmann: Jesus Christ as the Eschatological Event 6. Tillich: Kairos 7. Pannenberg: Eschatology and the Experience of Meaning 8. Moltmann: The Resurrection as Hope The Religious 1. Justin Martyr: In Defense of Christianity 2. Troeltsch: The Absoluteness and Relativity of Christianity 3. Barth: Critique of Christianity as a Religion 4. Panneberg: Christianity in the History of Religions 5. Cobb: Beyond Dialogue The Christian Paradigm: Alternative Visions 1. Niebuhr: Radical Monotheism 2. Come: The social Context of Theology 3. Gutierrez: Orthopraxis, Not Orthodoxy 4. Ruether: The Prophetic, Iconoclastic Christ 5. Hick: One God, Many Images 6. Kaufman: Divine Power, Human Responsibilities, and the Nuclear Threat Acknowledgments Index of Authors and Selections
