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The SCM Core Text: Christian Doctrine offers an up-to-date, accessible introduction to one of the core subjects of theology. Written for second and third-year university students, it shows that Christian Doctrine is not a series of impossible claims to be clung to with blind faith. Mike Higton argues that it is, rather, a set of claims that emerge in the midst of Christian life, as Christian communities try to make enough sense of their lives and of their world to allow them to carry on. Christian communities have made sense of their own life, and the life of the wider world in which they are set, as life created by God to share in God's own life. They have seen themselves and their world as laid hold of God's life in Jesus of Nazareth, and as having the Spirit of God's own life actively at work within them. This book explores these and other central Christian doctrines, and in each case, shows how the doctrine makes sense, and how it is woven into Christian life. It will help readers to see what sense it might make to say the things that Christian doctrine says, and how that doctrine might affect the way that one looks at everything: the natural world, gossip, culture, speaking in tongues, politics, dieting, human freedom, love, High Noon, justice, computers, racism, the novels of Jane Austin, parenthood, death and fashion.
Contents
List of Figures vii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction xi
1 The Love of God 1
Unfinished Conversations 1: James Cone on the Love of God 17
2 The Broken World 21
Unfinished Conversations 2: A. M. Ranawana on
Ecological Rage 38
3 God's Life in the World 42
Unfinished Conversations 3: Michael Wyschogrod
on Judaism and Incarnation 61
4 The Way of the Cross 65
Unfinished Conversations 4: Lorna May Wadsworth's
A Last Supper 84
5 The Life-Giving Spirit 87
Unfinished Conversations 5: Simon Chan on Foretastes
of the End 103
6 The Church in the World 106
Unfinished Conversations 6: Al Barrett and Ruth Harley
on Being Interrupted 125
The Threefold Way 129
Unfinished Conversations 7: Linn Marie Tonstad on the
Trinity and Gender 150
8 From the Beginning 153
Unfinished Conversations 8: Many Voices on the
Environmental Crisis 167
9 Life in the Middle 171
Unfinished Conversations 9: Karen Kilby on Meaningless
Suffering 189
10 Towards the End 193
Unfinished Conversations 10: Amos Yong on Eschatology
and Disability 209
11 Revelation and the Bible 213
Unfinished Conversations 11: Katherine Sonderegger
on the Bible and the Burning Bush 225
Coda: The Purpose of Doctrine 228
Index of Bible References 235
Index of Names and Subjects 239
