Systematic Theology Volume 1: The Triune God

by Jenson, Robert W.

• ISBN13: 9780195086485
• ISBN10: 0195086481
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-08-07
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The Triune God, together with the forthcoming second volume, The Works of God, develops a compendious statement of Christian theology in the tradition of a medieval summa, or of such modern works as those of Schleiermacher and Barth. Theology, as it is understood here, is the Christianchurch's continuing discourse concerning her specific communal purpose; it is the hermeneutic and critical reflection internal to the church's task of speaking the gospel, to the world as message and to God in petition and praise. This volume and its successor are thus dedicated to the service ofthe one church of the creeds; it is for no particular denomination or confession. The interlocutors of this work's analyses and proposals are drawn from wherever in the ecumenical tradition a question may lead: to theologians and traditions ancient, medieval, or modern; Eastern or Western; Catholicor Protestant.

Table of Contents

PART I / PROLEGOMENA
What Systematic Theology Is About	3	(20)
The Norms of Theological Judgment	23	(19)
The Identification of God	42	(21)
PART II / THE TRIUNE IDENTITY
The Way of God's Identity	63	(12)
The Persons of God's Identity	75	(15)
Of One Being with the Father	90	(25)
The Patrological Problem	115	(10)
The Christological Problem	125	(21)
The Pneumatological Problem	146	(19)
PART III / THE TRIUNE CHARACTER
Jesus	165	(14)
Crucifixion	179	(15)
Resurrection	194	(13)
The Being of the One God	207	(17)
Our Place in God	224