The Mosaic of Christian Belief: Twenty Centuries of Unity & DiversityInterVarsity Press, 6 sept. 2002 - 367 pages An ECPA 2003 Gold Medallion Finalist! The story of Christian theology has often been divisive and disjointed. Providing this companion volume to his earlier work The Story of Christian Theology, Roger E. Olson thematically traces the contours of Christian belief down through the ages, revealing a pattern of both unity and diversity. He finds a consensus of teaching that is both unitive and able to incorporate a faithful diversity when not forced into the molds of false either-or alternatives. The mosaic that emerges from Olson's work displays a mediating evangelical theology that is nonspeculative and irenic in spirit and tone. Specifically written with the nonspecialist in mind, Olson has masterfully sketched out the contours of Christian faith with simplicity while avoiding oversimplification. |
Table des matières
CHRISTIAN BELIEF Unity and Diversity | 29 |
SOURCES AND NORMS OF CHRISTIAN BELIEF One and Many | 49 |
DIVINE REVELATION Universal and Particular | 71 |
CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURE Divine Word and Human Words | 89 |
GOD Great and Good | 111 |
GOD Three and One | 133 |
CREATION Good and Fallen | 155 |
PROVIDENCE Limited and Detailed | 177 |
JESUS CHRIST God and Man | 223 |
SALVATION Objective and Subjective | 243 |
SALVATION Gift and Task | 265 |
THE CHURCH Visible and Invisible | 287 |
LIFE BEYOND DEATH Continuity and Discontinuity | 307 |
THE KINGDOM OF GOD Already and Not Yet | 331 |
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HUMANITY Essentially Good and Existentially Estranged | 199 |
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