Accountability to God

This book explores what it means to be accountable to God. Engaging with major theologians alongside contemporary analytic philosophy, systematic theology, and psychology, it proposes a positive, constructive, and theologically apt way to think about accountability that distinguishes it from the concept of responsibility.

List of contents

• Introduction


• I: The Concept of Accountability


• 1: A Definition of Accountability


• 2: Analysing Accountability


• 3: The Virtue of Accountability


• 4: Slavery--Accountability or Exploitation?


• II: A Theology of Accountability


• 5: The Story of Creation and the Covenant of Accountability


• 6: The Fall from Accountability to God


• 7: The Fear of the Lord


• 8: Baptism into Accountability in Christ


• 9: The Story that Turned Paul's Life Around


• Conclusion


• Bibliography


• Index

About the author

Andrew B. Torrance is a senior lecturer in theology at the University of St Andrews. Prior to becoming a lecturer, he held a research fellowship at the University of St Andrews for which he ran the programme, Scientists in Congregations Scotland. He received his PhD from the University of Otago, where he wrote a dissertation on Søren Kierkegaard's and Karl Barth's theology of conversion.

Summary

This book explores what it means to be accountable to God. Engaging with major theologians alongside contemporary analytic philosophy, systematic theology, and psychology, it proposes a positive, constructive, and theologically apt way to think about accountability that distinguishes it from the concept of responsibility.

Product details

• Authors: Torrance , Andrew B. Torrance, Andrew B. (Senior Lecturer in Theology Torrance
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.05.2023
• EAN: 9780198873938
• ISBN: 978-0-19-887393-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Oxford Studies in Analytic Theology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Philosophy, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Philosophy of religion