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God Has Spoken: A History of Christian Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this groundbreaking resource, professor Gerald Bray traces the history of Christian theology from the early church to the modern era. Structured to parallel the order in which orthodoxy gradually matured in response to challenges from both inside and outside the church, this volume outlines how Christians have struggled to understand, confess, and worship the triune God through the centuries.

For the early Christians, the history of Israel culminated in the building of the temple by Solomon, and the rest was merely commentary. They made virtually nothing of the subsequent history of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah. The traumatic experience of the exile and return is largely passed over in silence. James and 1 Peter were addressed to the twelve tribes or “elect exiles” of the Dispersion, but what this meant is unclear. Most probably it was just a way of referring to those Jews who lived
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