God
The Sources of Christian Theology
1st Edition
Published on 28. September 2012
464 pages
978-1-61164-196-7 (ISBN)
Description
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 insights from these important and accessible texts.
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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.
Content
- Intro
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Series Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on the Selection and Arrangement of Texts
- Introduction
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1: God in the Early Church
- 1: Exodus 3:13-15 and Significant New Testament Passages
- 2: Irenaeus, Against the Heresies, Book 4, Chapter 20:1-8
- 3: Tertullian, Against Praxeas, Chapters 1-2, 7-9
- 4: Origen of Alexandria, On First Principles, Book 1, Chapters 1-3
- 5: Athanasius of Alexandria
- Orations against the Arians, Discourse 1.6
- Letters to Serapion on the Holy Spirit, 1:24-25
- 6: Gregory of Nazianzus, Orations 20, 23, 25
- 7: 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
- 8: Augustine, The Trinity, Book 15.1-14
- 9: Dionysius the Areopagite
- Divine Names, Chapter 1
- Mystical Theology, Chapters 1-5
- 10: Maximus Confessor, Chapters on Knowledge, "Second Century," 1-11
- Chapter 2: God in the Medieval Period
- 1: Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogion, Preface, Chapters 1-5, 18-19, 22-26
- 2: Bonaventure, The Journey of the Mind into God, Chapters 5-7
- 3: Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, 1.1-4, 12-13
- 4: Meister Eckhart, Sermon 6: Justi vivent in aeternum (Wis. 5:16)
- 5: Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love, Chapters 58-63
- 6: Nicholas of Cusa, Vision of God, Chapter 10
- Chapter 3: God in the Reformation
- 1: 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"
- 2: John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 1, Chapters 1-3, 14.20-22
- Chapter 4: God in Modernity
- 1: Jonathan Edwards
- The End for Which God Created the World, Section 7
- "Discourse on the Trinity"
- 2: René Descartes, Meditations, 3.1-4, 13-16, 22-39
- 3: Blaise Pascal, "The Wager," Sections 3.227-33, 4.277-82
- 4: Immanuel Kant, "The Existence of God as a Postulate of Pure Practical Reason"
- 5: Friedrich Schleiermacher, "God and Immortality"
- 6: G. W. F. Hegel, "The Development of the Idea of God"
- 7: Søren Kierkegaard, "The Sin of Despairing of the Forgiveness of Sins (Offense)"
- 8: Alfred North Whitehead, "God and the World"
- Chapter 5: God in Twentieth-century Theology
- 1: Karl Barth, "The Being of God as the One Who Loves in Freedom"
- 2: Karl Rahner, "Brief Creedal Statements"
- 3: Paul Tillich, "God as the Power of Being Resisting Nonbeing"
- 4: Wolfhart Pannenberg, "The Unity and Attributes of the Divine Essence"
- 5: Jürgen Moltmann, "A Trinitarian Theology of the Cross"
- 6: Hans Urs von Balthasar, "The Cross and the Trinity"
- 7: Vladimir Lossky, "The Divine Darkness"
- 8: Dumitru Staniloae, "The Relation of Being and Operation in God"
- Chapter 6: Recent Developments
- 1: Nicholas Wolterstorff, "Can Belief in God Be Rational?"
- 2: Gordon D. Kaufman, "Christian Theocentrism"
- 3: Clark Pinnock, "The Openness of God"
- 4: Kathryn Tanner, "God, the Giver of All Good Gifts"
- 5: Kosuke Koyama, "Heating the Cool Ideals of Dukkha, Anicca, and Anatta"
- 6: Raimon Panikkar, "A Non-dualist Vision of the Trinitarian God"
- 7: James Kombo: "The Doctrine of God in African Thought"
- 8: Leonardo Boff, "Amen: The Whole Mystery in a Nutshell"
- 9: Elizabeth Johnson, "She Who Is"
- 10: Catherine Mowry LaCugna, "The Practicality of the Doctrine of the Trinity"
- 11: Rowan Williams, "Trinity and Revelation"
- 12: Jean-Luc Marion, God Without Being
- Permissions
- Suggestions for Further Reading
- Index
