Lex crucis : soteriology and the stages of meaning / William P. Loewe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Loewe, William P., 1941-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Salvation--Christianity--History of doctrines.

Salvation.

Physical Description:

ix, 381 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minn. : Fortress Press, 2016.

Summary:

The Development of the Saving Story of God and Humankind What is the true story of God and humankind, and how does that story become a saving story? These are pivotal questions that constitute the narratives Christians tell about themselves, their values, and how the Christian life is to be lived. In shaping those stories into a coherent, intelligible framework that provides comprehensive meaning, soteriology-the doctrine of redemption-developed as a keystone to Christian consciousness. This study investigates that development of the soteriological tradition, from its beginning in the early church to medieval, Reformation, and modern accounts. Book jacket.

Contents:

1. Irenaeus of Lyons. The story of salvation

2. Anselm and the turn to theory. Why this story as the story of salvation?

3. Thomas Aquinas and the Ordo Disciplinae. Completing the turn to theory

4. Martin Luther. Existential soteriology-a window on interiority

5. Friedrich Schleiermacher. Redemption as transformation of consciousness

Bernard Lonergan. Lex crucis and the dialectics of history.

Notes:

Includes bibliography (pages 369-381)

ISBN:

1451472242

9781451472240

OCLC:

933438385