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Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004
7:52
Subject: [TruthTalk] Orthodoxy
I'm offering up two titles for your
consideration. Either could be read alone or, with a group.
Jinkins, Michael. Invitation to
Theology.Invervarsity Press, 2001 A Guide to Study, Conversation &
Practice
"The meaning and shape of our life together as a
community of persons is grounded in the inner life of God, the Trinity, and
has been revealed to us in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus
Christ."
"Centered on the trinitarian love of God,
Jinkins's book ties together Christian doctrine, worship and service, and
helpfully exposes the destructiveness of modern individualism in both church
and society. An excellent choice for a first course in theology." Daniel
Migliore
Contents
Class 1: What's the Use of Theology?
Class 2: Methods in the Madness
Class 3: I Believe in God
Class 4: I Believe in God, the Father Almighty,
Creator of Heaven & Earth
Class 5: I Believe in Jesus Christ, His Only Son,
Our Lord
Class 6: Conceived by the Holy Spirit, Born of
the Virgin Mary, Suffered, Dead & Buried
Class 7: Our Humanity in Light of Jesus
Christ
Class 8: The Holy Spirit
Class 9: The Holy Catholic Church
Class 10:The Forgiveness of Sins
Class 11:The Resurrection of the Body & Life
Everlasting
Torrance, Thomas F. The Trinitarian Faith.
T&T Clark, 1988
"The Author provides an account of the principal
themes of the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed.
"With its masterful synthesis of minute patristic
scholarship and rigorous conceptual analysis, the book is to be highly
recommended." Christoph Schwobel
Contents
1. Faith and Godliness
2. Access to the Father
3. The Almighty Creator
4. God of God, Light of Light
5. The Incarnate Saviour
6. The Eternal Spirit
7. The One Church
8. The Triunity of God
Bonus titles that one might choose to look
into:
Farrow, Douglas. Ascension and Ecclesia (On the
significance of the doctrine of the ascension for ecclesiology and christian
cosmology) Eerdmans, 1999
McLaren, Brian D. A Generous Orthodoxy (Why I am
a missional + evangelical + post/protestant + liberal/conservative +
mystical/poetic + biblical + charismatic/contemplative +
fundamentalist/calvinist + anabaptist/anglican + methodist + catholic + green
+ incarnational + depressed-yet-hopeful + emergent + unfinished Christian)
Zondervan, 2004
Rember, 'reality IS a nuisance for those who want
to make it up as they go along'
There is a history. There are traditions. We
ignore both at our own peril.
sincerely,
Lance, the
non-theologian+........
