Reinventing Christian doctrine : retrieving the law-gospel distinction / Maarten Wisse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wisse, Maarten, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Biblical studies.

Religion.

Theology--Christianity.

Theology.

Physical Description:

1 electronic resource (232 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.

Place of Publication:

London : T&T Clark, 2022.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Providing an alternative to current Trinitarian and Christocentric approaches to dogmatics, this open access book instead centres the Augustinian and classical Reformation Law-Gospel distinction. Maarten Wisse demonstrates the viability of dogmatics based on the Law-Gospel distinction from both a historical and a systematic-theological perspective. From a historical perspective, Wisse shows that the actual use of Scripture should be understood as the interplay between a critical concern about the difference between God and the world on the one hand, and the witness to God's presence in Christ in the world on the other. From a systematic-theological perspective, the benefits of approaching dogmatics through the dynamics between Law and Gospel is exemplified by discussions of key dogmatic topics, such as the doctrine of Scripture, predestination, atonement, the Eucharist and the theology of religions. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by The Protestant Theological University..

Contents:

Chapter 1: Retrieving the Law-Gospel Distinction for the Task of Dogmatics

Chapter 2: Law and Gospel as a Heuristic Lens

Chapter 3: Scripture Use in Augustine and the Reformation

Chapter 4: Christocentrism in Karl Barth, the Gospel of John, and the Possibility of Natural Theology

Chapter 5: Contra et Pro Sola Scriptura

Chapter 6: In Defence of Double Predestination

Chapter 7: Atonement: Socinus and Owen in Conversation

Chapter 8: Holy Supper: Retrieving Abraham Kuyper

Chapter 9: Law and Gospel as a Key to the Theology of the Religions -Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Creative Commons. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en

ISBN:

9780567704320

0567704327

9780567704344

0567704343

OCLC:

1353605319

Publisher Number:

10.5040/9780567704344 doi.