The command of grace : a new theological apologetics / by Paul D. Janz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Janz, Paul D.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theological anthropology--Christianity.

Theological anthropology.

Revelation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : T & T Clark, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Command of Grace sets forth a bold new critical initiative in theological apologetics, one that advances a fundamental reassessment of theological self-understanding and method today, especially in its attentiveness to the present reality of God in revelation. Many recent, predominating trends have tended to treat theological truth as something cognitively self-guaranteeing ('tauto-theological') within doctrinal or other theoretical domains. Against this, and drawing on the philosophical heritage and Jewish thought, the book seeks to revive other basic modes of human attentiveness for fund

Contents:

Theological apologetics and the reality of God

Causality and conceptual mono-vision

Tauto-theology

God and the poverty of alterity

Appetition, motion and reason

Rational integrity, finitude and sin

Reason, law and revelation

Christ, reality and history

The command of grace.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-86880-2

9786612868801

0-567-64706-4

OCLC:

676698632