| |
| |
| List of Illustrations | |
| |
| |
| Mission Statement | |
| |
| |
| Preface | |
| |
| |
| To the Student: How to Use this Work | |
| |
| |
| To the Teacher: How to Use this Book | |
| |
| |
| |
| Landmarks: Periods, Themes, and Personalities of Christian Theology | |
| |
| |
| |
| Introduction | |
| |
| |
| The Patristic Period, ca.100-451 | |
| |
| |
| A Clarification of Terms | |
| |
| |
| An Overview of the Patristic Period | |
| |
| |
| Key Theologians | |
| |
| |
| Justin Martyr | |
| |
| |
| Irenaeus of Lyons | |
| |
| |
| Origen | |
| |
| |
| Tertullian | |
| |
| |
| Athanasius | |
| |
| |
| Augustine of Hippo | |
| |
| |
| Key Theological Developments | |
| |
| |
| The Extent of the New Testament Canon | |
| |
| |
| The Role of Tradition | |
| |
| |
| The Relation of Christian Theology and Secular Culture | |
| |
| |
| The Fixing of the Ecumenical Creeds | |
| |
| |
| The Two Natures of Jesus Christ | |
| |
| |
| The Doctrine of the Trinity | |
| |
| |
| The Doctrine of the Church | |
| |
| |
| The Doctrine of Grace | |
| |
| |
| Key Names, Words, and Phrases | |
| |
| |
| Questions for: Chapter 1 Further Reading | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Middle Ages and the Renaissance, ca.1050-ca.1500 | |
| |
| |
| A Clarification of Terms | |
| |
| |
| The Middle Ages | |
| |
| |
| The Renaissance | |
| |
| |
| Scholasticism | |
| |
| |
| Humanism | |
| |
| |
| Key Theologians | |
| |
| |
| Anselm of Canterbury | |
| |
| |
| Thomas Aquinas | |
| |
| |
| Duns Scotus | |
| |
| |
| William of Ockham | |
| |
| |
| Erasmus of Rotterdam | |
| |
| |
| Key Theological Developments | |
| |
| |
| The Consolidation of the Patristic Heritage | |
| |
| |
| The Exploration of the Role of Reason in Theology | |
| |
| |
| The Development of Theological Systems | |
| |
| |
| The Development of Sacramental Theology | |
| |
| |
| The Development of the Theology of Grace | |
| |
| |
| The Role of Mary in the Scheme of Salvation | |
| |
| |
| Returning Directly to the Sources of Christian Theology | |
| |
| |
| The Critique of the Vulgate Translation of Scripture | |
| |
| |
| Byzantine Theology | |
| |
| |
| Key Names, Words, and Phrases | |
| |
| |
| Questions for: Chapter 2 Further Reading | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Reformation and Post-Reformation Periods, ca.1500-ca.1750 | |
| |
| |
| A Clarification of Terms | |
| |
| |
| The Lutheran Reformation | |
| |
| |
| The Calvinist Reformation | |
| |
| |
| The Radical Reformation (Anabaptism) | |
| |
| |
| The Catholic Reformation | |
| |
| |
| Key Theologians | |
| |
| |
| Martin Luther | |
| |
| |
| John Calvin | |
| |
| |
| Huldrych Zwingli | |
| |
| |
| Key Theological Developments | |
| |
| |
| The Sources of Theology | |
| |
| |
| The Doctrine of Grace | |
| |
| |
| The Doctrine of the Sacraments | |
| |
| |
| The Doctrine of the Church | |
| |
| |
| Developments in Theological Literature | |
| |
| |
| The Catechisms | |
| |
| |
| Confessions of Faith | |
| |
| |
| Works of Systematic Theology | |
| |
| |
| Post-Reformation Movements | |
| |
| |
| Protestant Orthodoxy | |
| |
| |
| Roman Catholicism | |
| |
| |
| Puritanism | |
| |
| |
| Pietism | |
| |
| |
| Key Names, Words, and Phrases | |
| |
| |
| Questions for: Chapter 3 Further Reading | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Modern Period, ca.1750 to the Present | |
| |
| |
| The Enlightenment | |
| |
| |
| The Enlightenment and Protestantism | |
| |
| |
| The Enlightenment Critique of Christian Theology: a General Overview | |
| |
| |
| The Enlightenment Critique of Christian Theology: Specific Issues | |
| |
| |
| Theological Movements Since the Enlightenment | |
| |
| |
| Romanticism | |
| |
| |
| Marxism | |
| |
| |
| Liberal Protestantism | |
| |
| |
| Modernism | |
| |
| |
| Neo-Orthodoxy | |
| |
| |
| Roman Catholicism | |
| |
| |
| Eastern Orthodoxy | |
| |
| |
| Feminism | |
| |
| |
| Postmodernism | |
| |
| |
| Liberation theology | |
| |
| |
| Black Theology | |
| |
| |
| Postliberalism | |
| |
| |
| Evangelicalism | |
| |
| |
| Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements | |
| |
| |
| Theologies of the Developing World | |
| |
| |
| Key Names, Words, and Phrases | |
| |
| |
| Questions for: Chapter 4 Further Reading | |
| |
| |
| |
| Sources and Methods | |
| |
| |
| |
| Getting Started: Preliminaries | |
| |
| |
| A Working Definition of Theology | |
| |
| |
| The Development of Theology as an Academic Discipline | |
| |
| |
| The Architecture of Theology | |
| |
| |
| Biblical Studies | |
| |
| |
| Systematic Theology | |
| |
| |
| Historical Theology | |
| |
| |
| Pastoral Theology | |
| |
| |
| Philosophical Theology | |
| |
| |
| Spirituality, or Mystical Theology | |
| |
| |
| The Question of Prolegomena | |
| |
| |
| Commitment and Neutrality in Theology | |
| |
| |
| Orthodoxy and Heresy | |
| |
| |
| Historical Aspects | |
| |
| |
| Theological Aspects | |
| |
| |
| Questions for: Chapter 5 Further Reading | |
| |
| |
| |
| The Sources of Theology | |
| |
| |
| Scripture | |
| |
| |
| Old and New Testaments | |
| |
| |
| The Word of God | |
| |
| |
| Narrative Theology | |
| |
| |
| Methods of Interpretation of Scripture | |
| |
| |
| Theories of the Inspiration of Scripture | |
| |
| |
| Reason | |
| |
| |
| Reason and Revelation: Three Models | |
| |
| |
| Deism | |
| |
| |
| Enlightenment Rationalism | |
| |
| |
| Criticisms of Enlightenment Rationalism Addition | |
| |
| |
| A Single-Source Theory of Tradition | |
| |
| |
| A Dual-Source Theory of Tradition | |
| |
| |
| The Total Rejection of Tradition | |
| |
| |
| Theology and Worship: the Importance of Liturgical Tradition | |
| |
| |
| Religious Experience | |
| |
| |
| Existentialism: a Philosophy of Human Experience | |
| |
| |
| Experience and Theology: Two Models | |
| |
| |
| Feuerbach''s Critique of Experience-Based Theologies | |
| |
| |
| Questions for: Chapter 6 Further Reading | |
| |
| |
| |
| Knowledge of God: Natural and Revealed | |
| |
| |
| The Idea of Revelation | |
| |
| |
| Models of Revelation | |
| |
| |
| Revelation as Doctr | |