Christ and Controversy
The Person of Christ in Nonconformist Thought and Ecclesial Experience, 1600-2000
Published on 1. January 2012
230 pages
978-1-63087-545-9 (ISBN)
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What may happen when Christians take doctrine seriously? One possible answer is that the shape of churchly life "on the ground" can be significantly altered. This pioneering study is both an account of the doctrine of the person of Christ as it has been expounded by the theologians of historic English and Welsh Nonconformity, and an attempt to show that while many Nonconformists held classical orthodox views of the doctrine between 1600 and 2000, others advocated alternative understandings of Christ's person; hence the evolution of the ecclesial landscape as we have come to know it. The traditions here under review are those of Old Dissent: the Congregationalists, Baptists, Presbyterians and their Unitarian heirs; and the Calvinistic and Arminian Methodist bodies that owe their origin to the Evangelical Revival of the eighteenth century.
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Christ and Controversy
The Person of Christ in Nonconformist Thought and Ecclesial Experience, 16002000
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Christ and Controversy
The Person of Christ in Nonconformist Thought and Ecclesial Experience, 1600-2000
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Alan P. F. Sell, of the University of Wales Trinity Saint David and the University of Chester, is a philosopher-theologian and ecumenist with strong interests in the history of Christian thought in general, and of the Reformed and Dissenting traditions in particular. A minister of The United Reformed Church, he has held rural and urban pastorates, has served from Geneva as Theological Secretary of the World Alliance (now Communion) of Reformed Churches, and has held academic posts in England, Canada, and Wales. He has earned the rarely-awarded senior doctorates, DD and DLitt, is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and of the Royal Historical Society, and holds honorary doctorates from the USA, Hungary, Canada, and Romania. He is the author of more than thirty books, and the editor of others. Ever seeking to hold together what belongs together, he explores the relations between philosophy, theology and apologetics, Christian ethics and moral philosophy, and doctrine in relation to spirituality and the ecumenical quest.
Content
- Title Page
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Classical Affirmations and Alternative Stances in the Seventeenth Century
- Chapter 3: Nonconformist Christology in the Eighteenth Century
- Chapter 4: Representative Ecclesial Repercussions in Eighteenth-Century England
- Chapter 5: Representative Ecclesial Repercussions in Eighteenth-Century Wales
- Chapter 6: Christological Contributions and Ecclesial Developments 1800-1891
- Chapter 7: The Proliferation of Nonconformist Christology 1891-1950
- Chapter 8: The Decline of Nonconformist Christological Endeavour 1950-2000
- Chapter 9: Epilogue
- Bibliography
