The Story of Christian Theology: Twenty Centuries of Tradition & Reform (Biblia.com)

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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...

in response to Trypho’s accusation “You endeavor to prove an incredible and well-nigh impossible thing: that God endured to be born and become man.”11 Justin identified Jesus Christ with the “cosmic Logos,” who is God’s offshoot and agent in creation. Clearly he was interpreting the opening verses of John’s Gospel as well as borrowing from Hellenistic ideas about the Logos. Almost every Greek philosophy—as well as Philo’s Hellenistic Jewish theology—had a role for a being known as the Logos. In every

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