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God The Sources of Christian Theology

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ISBN-10: 0664231330

ISBN-13: 9780664231330

Edition: 2012

Authors: Lois Malcolm

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This volume provides an excellent collection of primary source documents from key Christian theologians that show ways in which God has been understood throughout the history of Christian thought. Malcolm surveys the major features which have marked theological understandings of God throughout six distinct periods, including the early church, the medieval era, the Reformation, modernity, the twentieth-century, and the present day. She describes the historical contexts and theological relevance of each of these works, which have helped shape the various ways Christians have come to understand God. This book will be particularly valuable to students of theology by providing significant…    
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List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Publication date: 9/28/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 456
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.606

Lois Malcolm is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Luther Seminary. She is the author of numerous articles as well as Holy Spirit: Creative Power in Our Lives. She has served on the Editorial Board of the Sources of Christian Theology series, published by Westminster John Knox Press.

Series Introduction
Acknowledgments
A Note on the Selection and Arrangement of Texts
Introduction
Abbreviations
God in the Early Church
Exodus 3:13-15 and Significant New Testament Passages
Irenaeus, Against the Heresies, Book 4, Chapter 20:1-8
Tertullian, Against Praxeas, Chapters 1-2, 7-9
Origen of Alexandria, On First Principles, Book 1, Chapters 1-3
Athanasius of Alexandria
Orations against the Arians, Discourse 1.6
Letters to Serapion on the Holy Spirit, 1:24-25
Gregory of Nazianzus, Orations 20, 23, 25
Gregory of Nyssa
Refutation of Eunomius' Confession, Book 2.1-3
The Great Catechism, Prologue, Chapters 1-3
The Life of Moses, Book 1.5-10, Book 2.162-69
Augustine, The Trinity, Book 15.1-14
Dionysius the Areopagite
Divine Names, Chapter 1
Mystical Theology, Chapters 1-5
Maximus Confessor, Chapters on Knowledge, "Second Century," 1-11
God in the Medieval Period
Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogion, Preface, Chapters 1-5, 18-19, 22-26
Bonaventure, The Journey of the Mind into God, Chapters 5-7
Summa Theologica, 1.1-4,12-13
Sermon 6: Justi vivent in aeternum (Wis. 5:16)
Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love, Chapters 58-63
Nicholas of Cusa, Vision of God, Chapter 10
God in the Reformation
Martin Luther
"Luther's Experience of the 'Righteousness of God"'
The Heidelberg Disputation
The Large Catechism
"The Right Hand of God"
"God Is a Supernatural, Inscrutable Being"
Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 1, Chapters 1-3, 14.20-22
God in Modernity
Jonathan Edwards
The End for Which God Created the World, Section 7
"Discourse on the Trinity"
Meditations, 3.1-4, 13-16, 22-39
"The Wager," Sections 3.227-33, 4.277-82
"The Existence of God as a Postulate of Pure Practical Reason"
"God and Immortality"
"The Development of the Idea of God"
"The Sin of Despairing of the Forgiveness of Sins (Offense)"
"God and the World"
God in Twentieth-century Theology
"The Being of God as the One Who Loves in Freedom"
"Brief Creedal Statements"
"God as the Power of Being Resisting Nonbeing"
"The Unity and Attributes of the Divine Essence"
"A Trinitarian Theology of the Cross"
"The Cross and the Trinity"
"The Divine Darkness"
"The Relation of Being and Operation in God"
Recent Developments
"Can Belief in God Be Rational?"
"Christian Theocentrism"
"The Openness of God"
"God, the Giver of All Good Gifts"
"Heating the Cool Ideals of Dukkha, Anicca, and Anatta"
"A Non-dualist Vision of the Trinitarian God"
"The Doctrine of God in African Thought"
"Amen: The Whole Mystery in a Nutshell"
"She Who Is"
"The Practicality of the Doctrine of the Trinity"
"Trinity and Revelation"
God Without Being
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Suggestions for Further Reading
Index