
Holy Trinity: Holy People
The Theology of Christian Perfecting
Thomas A. Noble(Author)
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published on 19. February 2013
258 pages
978-1-62189-551-0 (ISBN)
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Teaching on the sanctification of Christians using the difficult word perfection has been part of Christian spirituality through the centuries. The Fathers spoke of it and Augustine particularly contributed his penetrating analysis of human motivation in terms of love. Medieval theologians such as Bernard and Thomas Aquinas developed the tradition and wrote of levels or "degrees" of "perfection" in love. However, the doctrine has not fared so well among Protestants. John Wesley was the one major Protestant leader who tried to blend this ancient tradition of Christian "perfection" with the Reformation proclamation of justification by grace through faith.
This book seeks to develop Wesley's synthesis of patristic and Reformation theology in order to consider how Christian "perfection" can be expressed in a more nuanced way in today's culture. Noble examines what basis may be found for Wesley's understanding of sanctification in the central doctrines of the church, particularly the atonement, the doctrine of Christ, and the most comprehensive of all Christian doctrines, the doctrine of the Holy Trinity. What he sets out is a fully trinitarian theology of holiness.
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T. A. Noble is Professor of Theology at Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri, and also Senior Research Fellow in Theology at Nazarene Theological College, Manchester, UK. He was recently president of the Wesleyan Theological Society.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1: Preliminaries
- Chapter 2: Christian Perfecting in Holy Scripture
- Chapter 3: Christian Perfecting in Church Tradition
- Chapter 4: Wesley's Doctrine of Christian Perfecting
- Chapter 5: Reformulating Wesley's Doctrine Today
- Chapter 6: Christian Holiness and the Atonement
- Chapter 7: Christian Holiness and the Incarnation
- Chapter 8: Christian Holiness and the Holy Trinity
- Chapter 9: Reflecting the Holy Trinity
- Bibliography
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