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Zusatztext A leading exponent of analytic theology! Oliver Crisp displays his characteristic clarity and insight in a succession of essays on central doctrinal themes. Allied to his historical learning! his approach generates material that will repay study and stimulate further reflection! particularly within the Reformed tradition. Informationen zum Autor Oliver Crisp is Professor of Analytic Theology, and Director of the Logos Institute for Analytic and Exegetical Theology at the University of St Andrews, UK.The essays in this book trace a short summation of Christian doctrine across seven major chapters. Zusammenfassung This collection of studies in theology is written from the perspective of one from within the Christian faith, and seeking greater understanding of the doctrinal deposit of that faith. As a leading scholar in Christian and analytic theology, Oliver D. Crisp summarizes and analyses Christian doctrine, written in the form of traditional dogmatics.Beginning with issues concerning the task of theology, Crisp explores the challenges to systematic theology as a discipline, the uses of Scripture in theological discourse, and the reception of the theology of John Calvin. He then moves issues at the centre of serious theological debate in recent theology, the relationship between God and abstract objects in the thought of Jonathan Edwards, and theological anthropology. This volume culminates with studies that focus on central and defining issues in contemporary systematic and philosophical theology, taking forward a constructive theological program in dialogue with important figures in the Christian tradition, and engaged with some of the best contemporary theological scholarship. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsPreface I. The Task of Theology 1. Challenges for Systematic Theology2. Receiving Calvin II. God and Creation 3. Edwards on Creation and Divine Ideas4. Girardeau on Human Free Will5. Zwingli on Original Sin III. Christ and Salvation 6. Assuming Human Flesh7. The Vicarious Humanity of Christ 8. Edwards’s atonement quandary9. Character and True VirtueBibliographyIndex...
