Systematic Theology: Volume 1: the Triune God

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Oxford University Press, 2001 - Religion - 256 pages
The Triune God, together with the forthcoming second volume, The Works of God, develops a compendious statement of Christian theology in the tradition of a medieval summa, or of such modern works as those of Schleiermacher and Barth. Theology, as it is understood here, is the Christian church's continuing discourse concerning her specific communal purpose; it is the hermeneutic and critical reflection internal to the church's task of speaking the gospel, to the world as message and to God in petition and praise. This volume and its successor are thus dedicated to the service of the one church of the creeds; it is for no particular denomination or confession.
 

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Contents

What Systematic Theology Is About
1
The Norms of Theological Judgment
21
The Identification of God
40
THE TRIUNE IDENTITY
59
The Way of Gods Identity
61
The Persons of Gods Identity
73
Of One Being with the Father
88
The Patrological Problem
113
The Pneumatological Problem
144
THE TRIUNE CHARACTER
161
Jesus
163
Crucifixion
177
Resurrection
192
The Being of the One God
205
Our Place in God
222
Copyright

The Christological Problem
123

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About the author (2001)

Robert W. Jenson is at Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theory, Minnesota.

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