The Story of Christian Theology: Twenty Centuries of Tradition and ReformInterVarsity Press, 20.08.2009 - 652 Seiten Christianity Today Book of the Year Award History is made up of stories--narratives that recount the events, movements, ideas and lives that have shaped religions and nations. Theologian Roger Olson believes that the history of Christian theology should be told as such a story, one replete with thick plots, exciting twists, interesting people and fascinating ideas. In this panoramic work of historical theology Olson vividly recounts the deeds and words of the cultists and apostolic fathers of the second century, the clash between the theological schools of Alexandria and Antioch, the epochal division between East and West, the revolutionary advent of the Reformation and much more, right on up to the dazzling, sometimes dismaying fallout that has continued to shake Christians through the twentieth century. Through it all Olson detects and traces a common thread: a concern for salvation--God's redemptive activity in forgiving and transforming sinful human beings. Evenhanded, refreshingly readable, impressive in its breadth and depth, The Story of Christian Theology is poised to become a standard historical theology text. |
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... interpretations of the gospel. At other times the issue of salvation, what it entails and how best to guard and protect it faded into the background as church leaders and theologians debated other matters and struggled to find answers ...
... interpretations of Christ's presence in the Lord's Supper is a scandal and a blot on the history of Protestant theology. Of course Luther, Zwingli, Calvin and other Reformers disagreed about other things as well, but that doctrinal ...
... interpretations. During the Reformation some Protestant leaders labeled this category adiaphora, from a Latin term for “things that don't matter very much,” or “matters of indifference.” From my own perspective an example of this would ...
... interpretation of the teachings of Jesus and the apostles became so pressing that individual churches, groups of churches and eventually all Christian leaders collected, limited and defined the writings of apostles and people closely ...
Twenty Centuries of Tradition and Reform Roger E. Olson. due to different interpretations of the soul's journey back through the levels of reality between the physical and the spiritual. Some Gnostics attempted to name scores of beings ...
Inhalt
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Another Crisis Shakes the Church The Conflict over the Person of Christ | 197 |
A Tale of Two Churches The Great Tradition Divides Between East West | 251 |
The Overall Plot Divides Liberals Conservatives Respond to Modernity | 533 |
The Unfinished Story Its Future | 610 |
Notes | 615 |
Name index | 643 |
Subject index | 648 |
Praise for The Story of Christian Theology | 653 |
About the Author | 654 |
More Titles from InterVarsity Press | 655 |
The Saga of the Queen of Sciences Scholastics Revive Enthrone Theology | 311 |
A New Twist in the Narrative The Western Church Reforms Divides | 369 |
The Center of the Story Falls Apart Protestants Follow Diverse Paths | 451 |
Academic Textbook Selector | 656 |
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