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9780130991676

The Christian Theological Tradition

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    9780130991676

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    0130991678

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2003-01-01
  • Publisher: PEARSON
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For one-semester, undergraduate-level courses in Introduction to Theology or History of the Christian Tradition. This text helps students acquire a basic theological literacy in key persons and events of the Bible and the Christian faith, and in Christianity's encounter with culture at large. Historically arranged, it also addresses five major themes of systematic theology: revelation, God, creation, Jesus, and church.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Introduction
1(12)
Terence Nichols
David Smith
Jan Michael Joncas
Part I The Old Testament 13(58)
David Landry
The Primeval Story
19(10)
David Landry
David Penchansky
God's Covenant with Israel
29(15)
David Smith
Judges, Prophets, Kings
44(13)
David Penchansky
David Landry
Second Temple Judaism (520 B.C.E.-70 C.E.)
57(14)
David Landry
Part II The New Testament 71(32)
Catherine Cory
Jesus and the Gospels
75(14)
Catherine Cory
Apostolic Missions
89(14)
David Landry
Catherine Cory
Part III The History of Christianity 103(142)
Michael Hollerich
Christianity after the Apostles
108(15)
Michael Hollerich
The Age of the Imperial Church
123(18)
Michael Hollerich
Augustine of Hippo
141(12)
David Hunter
Eastern Christianity
153(14)
Jan Michael Joncas
Islam
167(15)
Carol Lahurd
Christianity in the Early Medieval Period
182(14)
Jan Michael Joncas
Christianity in the High Middle Ages
196(19)
Michael Hollerich
Thomas Aquinas
215(15)
David Smith
Christianity in the Late Medieval Period
230(15)
Anne H. King
Part IV The Modern Period 245(154)
Terence Nichols
The Renaissance
249(10)
Terence Nichols
Martin Luther
259(16)
Shirley E. Jordon
Other Protestant Reformers
275(21)
David S. Cunningham
The Catholic Reformation
296(13)
Anne H. King
Global Expansion and the Colonial Churches
309(15)
Thaddeus Posey
Modern Challenges to Christianity
324(21)
Terence Nichols
Christianity in the United States
345(20)
Thaddeus Posey
Christianity and the Contemporary Situation
365(22)
Terence Nichols
David Smith
David S. Cunningham
Christianity and, Other Religions
387(12)
Edwards Ulrich
Glossary 399(20)
Copyright Acknowledgments 419(4)
Index 423

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The textbook you are about to read is a very unusual one, for it is not the work of one or even two people, but a collaborative work involving fourteen separate authors, five or more reviewers, and two editors. What follows is the rather remarkable story of how this textbook came into being. In the fall of 1990, the theology department at the University of St. Thomas created a new first course in theology, a course that all undergraduate students would take as part of their general education requirements at this urban, Catholic, liberal arts university. The new first course was entitled "The Christian Theological Tradition." It was designed to give students a one-semester introduction to the whole of Christian history, from Genesis to Vatican II, as a starting point for their studies in the curricular area "Faith and the Catholic Tradition." The reasons for the creation of this course were manifold. A major factor was the realization that students who came to St. Thomas were increasingly less prepared to handle what were previously classified as "introductory" courses in theology. Through no fault of their own, fewer and fewer students had any real knowledge about the Catholic tradition, the contents of the Bible, the major doctrines of the Christian faith, or the meaning of the various parts of Christian liturgy. "The Christian Theological Tradition" was created, in part, to provide the basic knowledge necessary for further study in theology, the foundation on which advanced learning could be built. The backbone of the new course was to be a long list of primary texts. Included on this list were seminal biblical texts from the Pentateuch, the prophets, the gospels, and Paul's letters; the decrees of important church councils, such as Nicaea, Constantinople, Chalcedon, Trent, and Vatican II; Christian spiritual writings, such as those of Julian of Norwich; and works by the greatest theologians in Christian history such as Augustine, Aquinas, and Luther. Although the course was built around the primary texts, it needed a textbook to complement these readings and to provide a context for the readings themselves. The theology faculty considered numerous possible textbooks but found that none met all of its needs. In the spring of 1994, the theology department created a committee to explore the possibility of writing a textbook specifically for "The Christian Theological Tradition." The committee met that summer to develop a table of contents and some sample chapters. The results were sufficiently encouraging that the committee made a recommendation to the whole department that it proceed with the textbook project, and the recommendation was approved. The first task of the committee was to find authors for each of the proposed twenty-four chapters. This was not as difficult as it might appear, since when it comes to covering the length and breadth of the Christian theological tradition, the theology department at the University of St. Thomas possesses an embarrassment of riches. Due to the large size of the undergraduate student body at St. Thomas (approximately 5,500 students) and the three-course requirement, the theology department is unusually large, with approximately thirty full-time members. Because of this, the committee was able to find authors for each of the chapters who are truly experts in the areas to be covered, many of them scholars with a national reputation. Eventually, thirteen people volunteered to write one or more chapters. A fourteenth author was added in the second edition. The two people who were chosen to be the general editors of the textbook then wrote various grant proposals in search of funds to finance the project. When the proposals were accepted by the Bush Foundation and the Aquinas Foundation, the final hurdle had been cleared, and serious work on the project began. The writing of the chapters took place between the fall of 1994 and the winter of 1996. As a first

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