Freedom from God
Author : Harry Willson
Publisher :
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 28,17 MB
Release : 2002-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780938513339
The Freedom of God
Author : James Daane
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 39,68 MB
Release : 1973-10-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802872036
Book Description
The doctrine of election is one of the most difficult in all of Christian theology. It is also one of the most prominent doctrines, for the election of Israel, Christ, and the church is a theme that runs through the Scriptures. Yet, notes James Daane, election is rarely preached from the pulpit. In The Freedom of God Daane offers an explanation for this curious silence, presents a corrective to the scholasticism that has infected Reformed theology, and argues that the doctrine of election is in fact preached whenever Christ is faithfully proclaimed. Interacting with such major Reformed theologians as Bavinck, Hoeksema, VanTil, and others, Daane here offers a clear, biblically based, truly Reformed understanding of the crucial significance of election in relation to preaching.
Freedom and Necessity in Modern Trinitarian Theology
Author : Brandon Gallaher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 46,53 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0198744609
Book Description
Freedom and Necessity in Modern Trinitarian Theology examines the tension between God and the world through a constructive reading of the Trinitarian theologies and Christologies of Sergii Bulgakov (1871-1944), Karl Barth (1886-1968), and Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988). It focuses on what is called "the problematic of divine freedom and necessity" and the response of the writers. "Problematic" refers to God being simultaneously radically free and utterly bound to creation. God did not need to create and redeem the world in Christ. It is a contingent free gift. Yet, on the other side of a dialectic, he also has eternally determined himself to be God as Jesus Christ. He must create and redeem the world to be God as he has so determined. In this way the world is given a certain "free necessity" by him because if there were no world then there would be no Christ. A spectrum of different concepts of freedom and necessity and a theological ideal of a balance between the same are outlined and then used to illumine the writers and to articulate a constructive response to the problematic. Brandon Gallaher shows that the classical Christian understanding of God having a non-necessary relationship to the world and divine freedom being a sheer assertion of God's will must be completely rethought. Gallaher proposes a Trinitarian, Christocentric, and cruciform vision of divine freedom. God is free as eternally self-giving, self-emptying and self-receiving love. The work concludes with a contemporary theology of divine freedom founded on divine election.
The Freedom of God for Us
Author : Brian D. Asbill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 13,90 MB
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 056730146X
Book Description
This volume provides an analysis of divine aseity in Karl Barth's thought and appreciates the vital role that this doctrine can play in contemporary theology. Brian D. Asbill begins by setting the general theological context, first through a broad sketch of the development of Barth's understanding of the relationship between the life of God pro nobis (pronobeity) and a se (aseity), and secondly through the examination of the basic theological convictions that guide his approach to the divine being in Church Dogmatics II/1. The second section, 'The Love and Freedom of God', turns to the dialectical pairings which guide Barth's accounts of the divine reality in his earliest dogmatic cycle (The Göttingen Dogmatics §§16-7) as well as in his most mature treatment (Church Dogmatics §§28-31). Particular attention is given to how these themes arise from revelation and relate to one another. In the final section, 'The Aseity of God', Asbill identifies this doctrine's basic features and primary functions. Divine aseity is characterized as the self-demonstration and self-movement of God's life, a trinitarian and entirely unique reality, a primarily positive and dynamic concept, and the manner and readiness of God's love for creatures. Divine aseity is said to indicate God's lordship in the act of self-binding, God's uniqueness in the act of self-revelation, and God's sufficiency in the act of self-giving.
The Gospel of Jesus Christ
Author : Walter Kasper
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 44,15 MB
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0809106167
Book Description
Contains writings from three different stages of Cardinal Walter Kasper’s theological journey. They seek to open up the gospel of Jesus Christ in a way that is intelligible to today’s readers. The works are: “An Introduction to the Faith,” “Surpassing All Knowledge,” and an original essay on evangelization, “New Evangelization as a Theological, Pastoral, and Spiritual Challenge.”
Freedom and Citizenship. Selected Lectures and Addresses
Author : John Mercer Langston
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 16,4 MB
Release : 2024-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 338531741X
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.
Jonathan Edwards's Turn from the Classic-Reformed Tradition of Freedom of the Will
Author : Philip John Fisk
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 20,21 MB
Release : 2016-07-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 3647560243
Book Description
Philip J. Fisk offers a critical reappraisal of Jonathan Edwards's Freedom of Will, interpreting Edwards from within his own tradition, Reformed Orthodoxy (±1550-1750), avoiding the outdated paradigms of the conventional interpretation of Edwards and his tradition, a so-called deterministic, reconciliationist Calvinism, and demonstrating from primary sources, such as Harvard and Yale commencement theses and quaestiones, that Edwards departed ways with Reformed Orthodoxy's robust and highly nuanced view of freedom of will, contingency, and necessity.
Called for Freedom
Author : Jose Comblin
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,44 MB
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1606088017
Book Description
In this frank and honest work, one of the pioneers of liberation theology in Latin America reassesses the movement in light of post-Cold War realities. Comblin outlines a liberative, theological pastoral agenda for now and the decades to come in the face of massive urbanization and the apparent triumph of the global marketplace. With the increasing apartheid of rich and poor, the cause of liberation remains as urgent as ever-perhaps more so. Jose Comblin, already established as a premier contributor to liberation theology, has now provided a work of major new importance. Significant changes have occurred since the inception of liberation theology thirty years ago, and Comblin provides a remarkably comprehensive, critical, and insightful study of economic, political, cultural, and religious developments that liberation theology must address. He offers as well a challenging new theological emphasis on 'freedom.' -Arthur F. McGovern, SJ University of Detroit A 'must read' for all interested in current debates among Latin American liberation theologians, and more broadly, on the eve of the third millennium, for all wondering about the meaning of the good news of the coming of God's reign in history. -Lee Cormie St. Michael's College and the Toronto School of Theology He dispels the rumor that liberation theology is disappearing or dead. This book is about the future of liberation theology, and, if Jose Comblin is right, it will play a vital role in the coming century. -Curt Cadorette University of Rochester
The Freedom of Man
Author : Paulos Gregorios
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,10 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780664209285
Book Description
The Principle of Authority In Relation to Certainty, Sanctity and Society
Author : P. T. Forsyth
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 16,95 MB
Release : 1996-12-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1579100198
Book Description
About the Contributor(s): Peter Taylor Forsyth (1848-1921) preached and pastored for twenty five years before becoming principal of Hackney College in London where he taught systematic theology and preaching. Forsyth converted from theological liberalism to classical Christianity in the mid-1880s. The theological transition was, in his own words, from a lover of love to an object of grace. A theologian of the cross, Forsyth is well known for his publications The Work of Christ, Cruciality of the Cross, and The Person and Place of Jesus Christ.
