Lois Malcolm

God: the Sources of Christian Theology - Sources of Christian Theology Lois Malcolm

Brief Description: An authoritative examination of important source materials on the development of the Christian doctrine of GodMarc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Series Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on the Selection and Arrangement of Texts -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. God in the Early Church -- 1. Exodus 3:13-15 and Significant New Testament Passages -- 2. Irenaeus, Against the Heresies, Book 4, Chapter 20:1-8 -- 3. Tertullian, Against Praxeas, Chapters 1-2, 7-9 -- 4. Origen of Alexandria, On First Principles, Book 1, Chapters 1-3 -- 5. Athanasius of Alexandria -- Orations against the Arians, Discourse 1.6 -- Letters to Serapion on the Holy Spirit, 1:24-25 -- 6. Gregory of Nazianzus, Orations 20, 23, 25 -- 7. Gregory of Nyssa -- Refutation of Eunomius' Confession, Book 2.1-3 -- The Great Catechism, Prologue, Chapters 1-3 -- The Life of Moses, Book 1.5-10, Book 2.162-69 -- 8. Augustine, The Trinity, Book 15.1-14 -- 9. Dionysius the Areopagite -- Divine Names, Chapter 1 -- Mystical Theology, Chapters 1-5 -- 10. Maximus Confessor, Chapters on Knowledge, Second Century, 1-11 -- Chapter 2. God in the Medieval Period -- 1. Anselm of Canterbury, Proslogion, Preface, Chapters 1-5, 18-19, 22-26 -- 2. Bonaventure, The Journey of the Mind into God, Chapters 5-7 -- 3. Summa Theologica, 1.1-4,12-13 / Thomas Aquinas -- 4. Sermon 6: Justi vivent in aeternum (Wis. 5:16) / Meister Eckhart -- 5. Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love, Chapters 58-63 -- 6. Nicholas of Cusa, Vision of God, Chapter 10 -- Chapter 3. God in the Reformation -- 1. Martin Luther -- Luther's Experience of the 'Righteousness of God' -- The Heidelberg Disputation -- The Large Catechism -- The Right Hand of God -- God Is a Supernatural, Inscrutable Being -- 2. Institutes of the Christian Religion, Book 1, Chapters 1-3, 14.20-22 / John Calvin -- Chapter 4. God in Modernity -- 1. Jonathan Edwards -- The End for Which God Created the World, Section 7 -- Discourse on the Trinity -- 2. Meditations, 3.1-4, 13-16, 22-39 / RenE Descartes -- 3. The Wager, Sections 3.227-33, 4.277-82 / Blaise Pascal -- 4. The Existence of God as a Postulate of Pure Practical Reason / Immanuel Kant -- 5. God and Immortality / Friedrich Schleiermacher -- 6. The Development of the Idea of God / G. W. F. Hegel -- 7. The Sin of Despairing of the Forgiveness of Sins (Offense) / SOren Kierkegaard -- 8. God and the World / Alfred North Whitehead -- Chapter 5. God in Twentieth-century Theology -- 1. The Being of God as the One Who Loves in Freedom / Karl Barth -- 2. Brief Creedal Statements / Karl Rahner -- 3. God as the Power of Being Resisting Nonbeing / Paul Tillich -- 4. The Unity and Attributes of the Divine Essence / Wolfhart Pannenberg -- 5. A Trinitarian Theology of the Cross / JUrgen Moltmann -- 6. The Cross and the Trinity / Hans Urs von Balthasar -- 7. The Divine Darkness / Vladimir Lossky -- 8. The Relation of Being and Operation in God / Dumitru Staniloae -- Chapter 6. Recent Developments -- 1. Can Belief in God Be Rational? / Nicholas Wolterstorff -- 2. Christian Theocentrism / Gordon D. Kaufman -- 3. The Openness of God / Clark Pinnock -- 4. God, the Giver of All Good Gifts / Kathryn Tanner -- 5. Heating the Cool Ideals of Dukkha, Anicca, and Anatta / Kosuke Koyama -- 6. A Non-dualist Vision of the Trinitarian God / Raimon Panikkar -- 7. The Doctrine of God in African Thought / James Kombo -- 8. Amen: The Whole Mystery in a Nutshell / Leonardo Boff -- 9. She Who Is / Elizabeth Johnson -- 10. The Practicality of the Doctrine of the Trinity / Catherine Mowry LaCugna -- 11. Trinity and Revelation / Rowan Williams -- 12. God Without Being / Jean-Luc Marion -- Permissions -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Index.

Contributor Bio:  Malcolm, Lois Lois Malcolm is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at Luther Seminary. She is the author of numerous articles as well as "Holy Spirit: Creative Power in Our Lives". She has served on the Editorial Board of the Sources of Christian Theology series, published by Westminster John Knox Press.