Readings in
Christian Theology

Edited by

Peter C. Hodgson

and

Robert H. King

Fortress Press Minneapolis

Acknowledgments are on pp. 407–13, which constitute an extension of the copyright page.

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Readings in Christian theology:

Includes indexes.

1. Theology, Doctrinal—Addresses, essays, lectures. I. Hodgson, Peter Crafts, 1934- II. King, Robert Harlen,1935-

Contents

Preface

I. Theology

1. Farley: Theologia—The History of a Concept

2. Ogden: What Is Theology?

II. Scripture and Tradition

1. Origen: The Threefold Sense of Scripture

2. Calvin: With the Aid of Spectacles

3. Mohler: Tradition as the Living Word

4. Hodge: The Protestant Rule of Faith

5. Rahner: Scripture as the Church’s Book

6. Kelsey: The Function of Scripture

III. God

1. Gregory of Nyssa: On the Trinity

2. Anselm: The Attributes of God

3. Thomas Aquinas: Language About God

4. Hartshorne: The Divine Relativity

5. Barth: The Humanity of God

6. Tillich: Theism Transcended

IV. Revelation

1. Augustine: Revelation as Illumination

2. Luther: Revelation by Word and Spirit

3. Tindal: Reason and Revelation

4. Barth: Revelation as God’s Self-Disclosure

5. Bultmann: Revelation and Human Existence

6. Rahner: The Supernatural Existential

7. Pannenberg: Revelation and History

8. Niebuhr: The Revelatory Image

V. Creation and Providence

1. Augustine: In the Beginning God Created

2. Calvin: God’s Providence Governs All

3. Spinoza: Deus Sive Natura, Causa Omnium

4. Hegel: Without the World God Is Not God

5. Ford: Divine Persuasion

6. Tillich: God’s Originating, Sustaining, and Directing Creativity

VI. Human Being

1. Augustine: Body, Soul, Will, and the Image of God

2. Schleiermacher: The Human Subject

3. Barth: Christ and Adam

4. Niebuhr: Human Beings as Creatures and Sinners

5. Rahner: Persons as Free and Responsible Subjects

VII. Sin and Evil

1. Augustine: Free Will and Sin

2. Luther: Sin and Grace

3. Tennant: Difficulties in the Classic Doctrine

4. Kierkegaard: Sin as Despair

5. Niebuhr: The Pride of Power

6. Ricoeur: Paradox of the Servile Will

7. Farrer: Beyond Augustinian Theodicy

VIII. Christ and Salvation

1. The Nicene Creed: Homousios with the Father

2. Athanasius: Truly Human, Truly God

3. The Chalcedonian Definition: One Person, Two Natures

4. Anselm: The Logic of Atonement

5. Schleiermacher: The Work of Christ

6. Bultmann: Faith in the Cross

7. Barth: Lord as Servant, Servant as Lord

8. Moltmann: The Crucified God

IX. The Church

1. Cyprian: The Unity of the Church

2. Thomas Aquinas: The Soul of the Church

3. The Second Helvetic Confession: Christ the Sole Head of the Church

4. Schleiermacher: The ...