Christian Theology: An Introduction

by Alister E. McGrath

Paperback, 1996

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Available

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THEOLOGY

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Alister McGrath's Christian Theology: An Introduction is one of the most internationally-acclaimed and popular Christian theology textbooks in use today. This 5th edition has been completely revised, and now features new and extended material, numerous additional illustrations, and companion resources, ensuring it retains its reputation as the ideal introduction to Christian theology. Fully updated 5th edition of the bestselling textbook, incorporating expanded material, numerous student features and new illustrations Features new sections on Copernicanism and Darwinism Includes extended discussions of Augustine's doctrine of creation, Trinitarian theologies of religion, and the relation of Christianity to other faiths May be used as a stand-alone volume, or alongside the Christian Theology Reader, 4th edition for a complete overview of the subject Retains the chapter structure of the 4th edition, ensuring comparability with earlier editions and courses based on these Accompanied by a revised instructor's website featuring expanded resources including study questions and answers; visit www.wiley.com/go/mcgrath for more details and to register for access… (more)

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Wiley–Blackwell (1996), Edition: 2nd Revised edition, 624 pages

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LibraryThing member ablueidol
A surprising good read! I read this over a week when at a Quaker holiday camp in Sussex England and after it found this joke even funnier!

Jesus said, Whom do men say that I am?

And his disciples answered and said, Some say you are John the Baptist returned from the dead; others say Elias, or other
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 of the old prophets.

And Jesus answered and said, But whom do you say that I am?

Peter answered and said, "Thou art the Logos, existing in the Father as His rationality and then, by an act of His will, being generated, in consideration of the various functions by which God is related to his creation, but only on the fact that Scripture speaks of a Father, and a Son, and a Holy Spirit, each member of the Trinity being co-equal with every other member, and each acting inseparably with and interpenetrating every other member, with only an economic subordination within God, but causing no division which would make the substance no longer simple."

And Jesus, answering, said, "What?"
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LibraryThing member kencf0618
Christianity. It's more than guys with bad hair on cable TV! Each paragraph if not almost every sentence of this overview doubtless has shelves of weighty tomes devoted to its subject, starting with the Church Fathers and continuing to this day. Tolle, lege!
LibraryThing member tole_lege
An introduction, and as such, very good of its kind. Start here, if you are interested in Christian theology - just don't END here, but go beyond, to the original sources.
LibraryThing member billmeister16
This is a unique introduction to Christian theology which encompasses a massive amount of material with relative brevity, clarity, and cohesiveness in a primarily historical context.
LibraryThing member DrJane
It does exactly what it says on the label! It introduces you to Christian theology.
LibraryThing member gthurman
On the Reformation: "The Reformation movement was complex and heterogeneous, and its agenda went far beyond the reform of the doctrine of the church. It addressed fundamental social, political, and economic issues, to complext to be discussed in any detail in this volume. The agenda of the
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 Reformation varied from one country to another, with the theological issues which played major roles in one country (for example, Germany) often having relatively little impact elsewhere (for example, in England)." p. 55
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