Faith Seeking Understanding

by Migliore, Daniel L.

• ISBN13: 9780802806017
• ISBN10: 0802806015
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-09-01
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

This timely, stimulating introduction to Christian theology is both critically respectul of the church's classical theological heritage and critically open to the emphases of contemporary theology--especially feminist, black, and Latin American liberation theologies.

Author Biography

Daniel L. Migliore is Charles Hodge Professor of Systematic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. x
Preface to the Second Edition	p. xi
Preface to the First Edition	p. xiii
Sources Frequently Cited	p. xvii
The Task of Theology	p. 1
Theology as Faith Seeking Understanding	p. 2
The Questionableness of Theology	p. 7
The Questions of Theology	p. 10
Methods of Asking Theological Questions	p. 16
The Meaning of Revelation	p. 20
What Is Revelation?	p. 20
God Hidden and Revealed	p. 22
Revelation as Objective and Subjective	p. 26
General and Special Revelation	p. 29
Models of Revelation	p. 33
Revelation as God's Self-Disclosure Narrated in Scripture	p. 35
Revelation, Scripture, and Church	p. 39
The Authority of Scripture	p. 44
The Problem of Authority in Modern Culture	p. 45
Inadequate Approaches to the Authority of Scripture	p. 47
The Indispensability of Scripture in Relating Us, by the Power of the Spirit, to the Living God Revealed in Jesus Christ	p. 50
Principles of the Interpretation of Scripture	p. 53
The Triune God	p. 64
The Problem of God in Modern Theology	p. 64
The Biblical Roots of the Doctrine of the Trinity	p. 68
Classical Trinitarian Doctrine	p. 70
Distortions in the Doctrine of God	p. 73
Restatement of the Meaning of the Doctrine of the Trinity	p. 74
The Attributes of God	p. 82
The Electing Grace of God	p. 87
The Good Creation	p. 92
Christian Faith and the Ecological Crisis	p. 92
Rereading the Scriptural Witness on Creation	p. 97
Rethinking the Themes of the Doctrine of Creation	p. 100
Trinity, Creation, and Ecology	p. 107
Models of Creation	p. 110
The Doctrine of Creation and Modern Science	p. 113
The Providence of God and the Mystery of Evil	p. 117
Belief in Providence and the Reality of Evil	p. 117
Providence and Evil in the Theological Tradition	p. 121
Rethinking Providence and Evil	p. 125
Recent Theodicies	p. 128
The Triune God and Human Suffering	p. 131
Providence, Prayer, Practice	p. 136
Humanity as Creature, Sinner, and New Being in Christ	p. 139
Interpretations of "Image of God"	p. 139
Created Humanity	p. 142
Fallen Humanity	p. 149
The Meaning of Original Sin and of Death as Enemy	p. 154
New Humanity in Christ	p. 160
The Person and Work of Jesus Christ	p. 163
Problems in Christology	p. 163
Principles of Christology	p. 167
Patristic Christology	p. 169
Rethinking Classical Affirmations of the Person of Christ	p. 174
Rethinking Classical Interpretations of the Work of Christ	p. 182
Violence and the Cross	p. 187
Dimensions of the Resurrection of Christ	p. 191
Confessing Jesus Christ in Context	p. 197
The Particularity and Universality of the Gospel	p. 198
Latin American Christology	p. 200
African American Christology	p. 204
Feminist, Womanist, and Mujerista Christologies	p. 209
Hispanic Christology	p. 212
Asian American Christology	p. 216
The Local and the Global in Christology	p. 220
The Holy Spirit and the Christian Life	p. 223
Neglect and Recovery of the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit	p. 224
A Sketch of a Theology of the Holy Spirit	p. 226
The Christian Life: Justification	p. 235
The Christian Life: Sanctification	p. 239
The Christian Life: Vocation	p. 246
The New Community	p. 248
The Problem of the Church	p. 249
New Testament Images of the Church	p. 251
Critique of Current Models of the Church	p. 254
The Church and the Call to Communion	p. 262
The Church and the Call to Mission	p. 265
Classical Marks of the Church	p. 269
Proclamation, Sacraments, and Ministry	p. 274
Proclamation of the Word	p. 274
What Are Sacraments?	p. 279
The Meaning of Baptism	p. 282
The Meaning of the Lord's Supper	p. 288
Baptism, the Lord's Supper, and Ethics	p. 293
The Meaning of an Ordained Ministry	p. 295
The Finality of Jesus Christ and Religious Pluralism	p. 301
The Ambiguity of Religion	p. 301
Types of Christian Theologies of the Religions	p. 306
Toward a Trinitarian Theology of the Religions	p. 316
Salvation in Other Religions?	p. 319
Christians and Jews	p. 323
Witness to Jesus Christ in a Religiously Pluralistic World	p. 326
Christian Hope	p. 330
The Crisis of Hope in an Age of Terrorism	p. 331
Principles for Interpreting Christian Hope	p. 337
Classical Symbols of Christian Hope	p. 342
Eschatology and Ethics	p. 348
Natural Theology: A Dialogue	p. 354
The Resurrection: A Dialogue	p. 370
Political Theology: A Dialogue	p. 384
A Glossary of Theological Terms	p. 402
Index of Names and Subjects	p. 429
Index of Scripture References	p. 436
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