Conversations with the Confessions: Dialogue in the Reformed TraditionJoseph D. Small Westminster John Knox Press, 1. 1. 2005 - 248 strán (strany) Fourteen Presbyterian scholars enter into conversations with the confessions of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and examine the major theological themes that make the confessions such foundational commitments of faith. This collection of insightful essays provides readers with a clear understanding of the confessions from different periods of the church's life. These conversations with the confessions found in the PC(USA)'s Book of Confessions include some illuminating commentary on why they were written and demonstrate how they can be used to address major theological issues. This important work will help scholars, pastors, and church leaders interested in studying the Reformed tradition appreciate the role of the confessions in shaping Christian life and faith today. |
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... become " official " in its present form until the reign of the Emperor Charlemagne in 814. The Apostles ' Creed gets to the heart of the matter in just three paragraphs . The first paragraph makes a bold affirmation of the one God who ...
... becomes unbearably heavy as we must decide and act without the prior experience of those decisions and actions that ... become unbearable as we find ourselves weighed down with the necessity of deciding and acting in the unrepeatable ...
... become weighed down by the unbearable lightness of our being , the unbearable lightness of our theology . Each moral choice we make becomes as free floating as a decision about letting some- one stay in our flat . Each theological ...
... become prisoners in the tiny cell of " here and now . " Ignoring the church's tradition because we fear that the past may oppress us only subjects us to the tyranny of the present . The Book of Confessions ' Brief Statement of Faith ...
... becomes fuller in each succeeding age . Neither do we identify a particular period in the tradition with a purer under- standing of the gospel , whether the early church or the sixteenth - century Reformation . Instead , we Reformed ...
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A Conversation with the Westminster Standards | 51 |
A Conversation with TwentiethCentury Confessions | 69 |
Who Is God? | 93 |
Who Are We? | 111 |
What Does God Have to Do with Us? | 121 |
What Do We Have to Do with Each Other? | 135 |
Why the Church? | 151 |
Why the Bible? | 171 |
How Shall We Worship? | 187 |
How Shall We Live? | 207 |
Essential Tenets? | 223 |