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Authors: Alister E. McGrath
ISBN-13: 9781405153607, ISBN-10: 1405153601
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: October 2006
Edition: 4th Edition

Author Biography: Alister E. McGrath

Alister E. McGrath is Professor of Historical Theology at Oxford University, and Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford. He is a world-renowned theologian, and is the author of numerous bestselling titles available through Blackwell Publishing, including The Christian Theology Reader 3rd edition (2007), Theology: The Basics (2004), Christianity: An Introduction 2nd edition (2006), A Brief History of Heaven (2003), and Dawkins’ God (2004).

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Alister E. McGrath is Professor of Historical Theology at Oxford University, and Senior Research Fellow at Harris Manchester College, Oxford.

	List of Illustrations
	Preface
	To The Reader: How to Use this Work
Pt. I	Landmarks: Periods, Themes, and Personalities of Christian Theology
	Introduction	3
1	The Patristic Period, c.100-451	5
	A Clarification of Terms	7
	An Overview of the Patristic Period	8
	Key Theologians	10
	Key Theological Developments	14
2	The Middle Ages and the Renaissance, c.1000-c.1500	26
	A Clarification of Terms	29
	Key Theologians	42
	Key Theological Developments	48
3	The Reformation and Post-Reformation Periods, c.1500-c.1700	55
	A Clarification of Terms	57
	Key Theologians	63
	Key Theological Developments	66
	The Post-Reformation Movement: Confessionalism and Scholasticism	68
	Pietism	73
4	The Modern Period, c.1700-the Present	76
	The Enlightenment	78
	Theological Movements since the Enlightenment	86
Pt. II	Sources and Methods
5	Getting Started: Preliminaries	117
	A Working Definition of Theology	117
	The Architecture of Theology	119
	The Question of Prolegomena	123
	The Nature of Faith	125
	Can God's Existence be Proved?	129
	The Nature of Theological Language	134
	Commitment and Neutrality in Theology	143
	Orthodoxy and Heresy	145
6	The Sources of Theology	151
	The Idea of Revelation	151
	Models of Revelation	154
	Natural Theology: Its Scope and Limits	158
	Scripture	163
	Reason	182
	Tradition	188
	Religious experience	192
Pt. III	Christian Theology
7	The Doctrine of God	205
	Is God Male?	205
	A Personal God	207
	Can God Suffer?	213
	The Omnipotence of God	222
	God in Process Thought	227
	Theodicies: The Problem of Evil	228
	God as Creator	233
	The Holy Spirit	240
8	The Doctrine of the Trinity	247
	The Biblical Foundations of the Trinity	248
	The Historical Development of the Doctrine: The Terms	249
	The Historical Development of the Doctrine: The Ideas	250
	Two Trinitarian Heresies	256
	The Trinity: Four Models	257
	The filioque Controversy	266
9	The Doctrine of the Person of Christ	270
	The Relation between Christology and Soteriology	270
	The Place of Jesus Christ in Christian Theology	272
	New Testament Christological Affirmations	275
	The Patristic Debate over the Person of Christ	281
	Models of Divine Presence in Christ	294
10	Faith and History: A New Christological Agenda	309
	The Enlightenment and Christology	309
	The Problem of Faith and History	313
	The Quest of the Historical Jesus	316
	The Resurrection of Christ: Event and Meaning	327
11	The Doctrine of Salvation in Christ	337
	Christian Approaches to Salvation	337
	The Foundations of Salvation: The Cross of Christ	341
	The Nature of Salvation in Christ	360
	The Scope of Salvation in Christ	364
12	The Doctrines of Human Nature, Sin, and Grace	369
	The Place of Humanity within Creation	369
	The Pelagian Controversy	371
	The Concepts of Grace and Merit	377
	The Doctrine of Justification by Faith	381
	The Doctrine of Predestination	394
13	The Doctrine of the Church	405
	The Early Development of Ecclesiology	405
	Reformation Controversies	410
	The Notes of the Church	417
14	The Doctrine of the Sacraments	427
	The Definition of a Sacrament	428
	The Donatist Controversy: Sacramental Efficacy	432
	The Function of the Sacraments	433

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