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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... called the church to a ministry of reconciliation in the face of pressing social divisions , and A Brief Statement of Faith affirmed the faith of the reunited Presbyterian Church in beautiful and poetic language . The importance of The ...
... of Germany in early 1933 , Adolf Hitler promoted the so - called " German Christians , " who subordinated the gospel to an anticommunist , anti - Jewish , anti - Masonic , and anti - internationalist racial purity xii Preface.
... called upon Christians to stand against Nazi efforts to capture the church , and to proclaim the gospel's enduring evangelical truths . Germany and the world had to endure ten more years of Hitler's tyranny , but the church's witness ...
... called the idea of eternal return the heaviest of burdens . " 2 Milan Kundera is not the only writer to ponder the myth of eternal return . In a lighter vein , Kurt Vonnegut's 1997 novel Timequake imagines that a sud- den glitch in the ...
... called " chronological snobbery , the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date is on that account discredited . " Do we really imagine that the issues ...
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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 |