Contemporary Doctrine Classics

from the Church of England

Buch | Softcover

496 Seiten

2025
Church House Publishing (Verlag)
978-0-7151-1197-0 (ISBN)

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This volume brings together three classic books from the Church of England's Doctrine Commission: 'We Believe in God' (1987), 'We Believe in the Holy Spirit' (1991) and 'The Mystery of Salvation' (1996).

This volume brings together in one compilation three classic books from the Church of England's Doctrine Commission:

We believe in God (1987)
We believe in the Holy Spirit (1991)
The mystery of salvation (1996)

Stephen Sykes, Chair of the Doctrine Commission, has provided an extensive foreword and commentary on the three books setting them within their historical context and exploring the theological background to the original publications. A comprehensive index has also been incorporated which provides a helpful tool for locating important doctrinal comment by key scholars including Rowan Williams, Richard Bauckham, Christina Baxter and John Polkinghorne.

Complete contents list:

Acknowledgements
Members of the Doctrine Commission
Foreword by Stephen Sykes

We Believe in God
Chairman’s preface
1 Towards a doctrine of God
2 God and our ways of knowing
3 God, language and personality
4 The God of the Bible
5 The God of Jesus
6 The God of the disciples
7 God as Trinity: an approach through prayer
8 God known through encounter and response
9 The God in whom we trust

We Believe in the Holy Spirit
Chairman’s preface
1 Introduction
2 Charismatic experience: praying ‘in the spirit’
3 Is this that?
4 The Spirit of Jesus
5 Spirit, sacraments and structures
6 The Spirit and power
7 The Spirit of truth
8 The Spirit and creation
9 The Spirit and creativity
10 The Holy Spirit and the future

The Mystery of Salvation
Foreword
1 Posing the problem
2 The giver and the gift
3 Saving history
4 The story of the saviour
5 Retelling the story
6 Receiving the gift
7 Christ and world faiths
8 Ending the story
Conclusion: that nothing be lost

Appendix: Salvation and the Anglican heritage
Notes
Index of biblical references
General index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.04.2023
Mitarbeit	Kommentare: Stephen Sykes
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	0-7151-1197-3 / 0715111973
ISBN-13	978-0-7151-1197-0 / 9780715111970
Zustand	Neuware