Author : Andrew Davison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 19,33 MB
Release : 2019-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1108483283
Offers a substantial discussion of a central theme in Christian theology - that everything comes from and depends upon God.
Author : A. M. Allchin
Publisher : Morehouse Publishing Company
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 15,40 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780819214089
Author : Paul S. Fiddes
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,94 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664223359
Participating in God claims that a doctrine of the Trinity cannot be developed in isolation from pastoral experience. It is not sufficient to view the persons of the Trinity as offering a mere example for human relationships; actual participation in this triune communication shapes both our knowledge of God and the pastoral practices that flow from it. Paul S. Fiddes develops a radical understanding of the "persons" in God as nothing other than relations, or as movements of divine relationship into which we are drawn. This important new book engages in conversation with recent thought about the Trinity in Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox theology. But it does so always through theological reflection on pastoral concerns. Fiddes brings the doctrine of the Trinity into dialogue with key issues, including the relation of the individual to community, the nature of power and authority, the effect of intercessory prayer, the problems of suffering, the power of forgiveness, the threat of death, the use of spiritual gifts, and the living of a sacramental life. Participating in God is essential reading for all those interested in Christian doctrine and pastoral care.
Author : J. Todd Billings
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,31 MB
Release : 2007-11-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0191526371
Is the God of Calvin a fountain of blessing, or a forceful tyrant? Is Calvin's view of God coercive, leaving no place for the human qua human in redemption? These are perennial questions about Calvin's theology which have been given new life by Gift theologians such as John Milbank, Graham Ward, and Stephen Webb. J. Todd Billings addresses these questions by exploring Calvin's theology of `participation in Christ'. He argues that Calvin's theology of `participation' gives a positive place to the human, such that grace fulfils rather than destroys nature, affirming a differentiated union of God and humanity in creation and redemption. Calvin's trinitarian theology of participation extends to his view of prayer, sacraments, the law, and the ecclesial and civil orders. In light of Calvin's doctrine of participation, Billings reframes the critiques of Calvin in the Gift discussion and opens up new possibilities for contemporary theology, ecumenical theology, and Calvin scholarship as well.
Author : Oliver D. Crisp
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,32 MB
Release : 2022-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1493432214
The atonement is at the heart of Christian doctrine. But how does it relate to the life of the church? And what difference does it make for worship and liturgy? Highly respected theologian Oliver Crisp sets out a new, comprehensive account of the nature of the atonement, exploring how this doctrine affects our participation in the life of God and in the shared life of the Christian community. Crisp builds on key insights from other historic substitutionary models of Christ's work while avoiding the problems plaguing penal substitution.
Author : Scott W. Sunquist
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 741 pages
File Size : 11,64 MB
Release : 2013-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441242147
This comprehensive introduction helps students, pastors, and mission committees understand contemporary Christian mission historically, biblically, and theologically. Scott Sunquist, a respected scholar and teacher of world Christianity, recovers missiological thinking from the early church for the twenty-first century. He traces the mission of the church throughout history in order to address the global church and offers a constructive theology and practice for missionary work today. Sunquist views spirituality as the foundation for all mission involvement, for mission practice springs from spiritual formation. He highlights the Holy Spirit in the work of mission and emphasizes its trinitarian nature. Sunquist explores mission from a primarily theological--rather than sociological--perspective, showing that the whole of Christian theology depends on and feeds into mission. Throughout the book, he presents Christian mission as our participation in the suffering and glory of Jesus Christ for the redemption of the nations.
Author : Hans Boersma
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 23,11 MB
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1467434426
Surveying the barriers that contemporary thinking has erected between the natural and the supernatural, between earth and heaven, Hans Boersma issues a wake-up call for Western Christianity. Both Catholics and evangelicals, he says, have moved too far away from a sacramental mindset, focusing more on the "here-and-now" than on the "then-and-there." Yet, as Boersma points out, the teaching of Jesus, Paul, and St. Augustine -- indeed, of most of Scripture and the church fathers -- is profoundly otherworldly, much more concerned with heavenly participation than with earthly enjoyment. In Heavenly Participation Boersma draws on the wisdom of great Christian minds ancient and modern -- Irenaeus, Gregory of Nyssa, C. S. Lewis, Henri de Lubac, John Milbank, and many others. He urges Catholics and evangelicals alike to retrieve a sacramental worldview, to cultivate a greater awareness of eternal mysteries, to partake eagerly of the divine life that transcends and transforms all earthly realities.
Author : Michael J. Gorman
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 26,59 MB
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1493416936
World-renowned scholar Michael Gorman examines the important Pauline theme of participation in Christ and explores its contemporary significance for Christian life and ministry. One of the themes Gorman explores is what he calls "resurrectional cruciformity"--that participating in Christ is simultaneously dying and rising with him and that cross-shaped living, infused with the life of the resurrected Lord, is life giving. Throughout the book, Gorman demonstrates the centrality of participating in Christ for Paul's theology and spirituality.
Author : Mark J. Goodwin
Publisher : Fortress Academic
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 16,32 MB
Release : 2020-11-15
Category :
ISBN : 9781978707177
In Paul's letters, the participatory experience of Pauline Christians is never clarified and so it remains enigmatic. In this book, this Pauline enigma is addressed through a patristic lens involving a look at several patristic texts that may shed potential new light on the mystery of Pauline participation.
Author : Torstein Theodor Tollefsen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,27 MB
Release : 2012-01-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199605963
An investigation into two basic concepts of ancient pagan and early Christian thought, activity and participation, through detailed discussion of the writings of Gregory of Nyssa, Dionysius the Areopagite, Maximus the Confessor, and Gregory Palamas.
