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Books on the Christian life abound. Some focus on spirituality, others on practices, and others still on doctrines such as justification or forgiveness. Few offer an account of the Christian life that portrays redeemed Christian existence within the multifaceted and beautiful whole of the Christian confession. This book attempts to fill that gap. It provides a constructive, specifically theological interpretation of the Christian life according to the nature of God's grace. This means coordinating the Triune God, his reconciling, justifying, redemptive, restorative, and otherwise transformative action with those practices of the Christian life emerging from it. The doctrine of the Christian life developed here unifies doctrine and life, confession and practice within the divine economy of grace. Drawing together some of the most important theologians in the church today, Sanctified by Grace achieves what no other theological text offers - a shared work of dogmatic theology oriented to redeemed Christian existence.
List of contents
Invited Foreword Introduction Part One-The Gracious One Chapter One The Triune God [Fred Sanders] Chapter Two The Electing God [Suzanne McDonald] Chapter Three The Creating and Providential God [Katherine Sonderegger] Chapter Four The Saving God [Invited: Kathryn Tanner] Chapter Five The Perfecting God [Christopher Holmes] Part Two-The Graces of the Christian Life Chapter Six Reconciliation and Justification [Invited: John Burgess] Chapter Seven Redemption and Victory [Invited: Ellen Charry] Chapter Eight Communion with Christ: Mortification and Vivification [John Webster] Part Three-The Means of Grace Chapter Nine Scripture [Donald Wood] Chapter Ten Church and Sacraments [Invited: Leanne Vandyk] Part Four-The Practices of Grace Chapter Eleven Discipleship [Philip Ziegler] Chapter Twelve Theology & Contemplation [Invited: Mark McIntosh] Chapter Thirteen Prayer: Corporate and Private [Mark Husbands] Chapter Fourteen Proclamation: Preaching, Politics, & Social Action Chapter Fifteen Forgiveness & Reconciliation Bibliography Index
About the author
Kent Eilers (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is assistant professor of theology at Huntington University, USA. He is also the author of Faithful to Save: Pannenberg on God's Reconciling Activity (T&T Clark). Kyle Strobel (PhD, University of Aberdeen) is assistant professor of theology at Grand Canyon University, USA. He is also the author of Jonathan Edwards's Theology: A Reinterpretation (T&T Clark).
