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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... ourselves the confessions ' place and function among us . UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS The beginning of an explanation may lie in an odd place : not in the confes- sions themselves but in a novel by the Czech writer Milan Kundera . In The ...
... ourselves weighed down with the necessity of deciding and acting in the unrepeatable and there- fore unknowable now . WE RATHER THAN I ? Our task is not to muse about the innumerable personal decisions we have to make every day ...
... of our theology unbearable as we become weighed down by the present without the means of building up shared faith and faithfulness . Perhaps we can begin to unburden ourselves by pondering a 4 Conversations with the Confessions.
... ourselves by pondering a historian's dis- tinction between tradition and traditionalism . Jaroslav Pelikan says , " Tradi- tionalism is the dead faith of the living . Tradition is the living faith of the dead . " Traditionalism is an ...
... ourselves as building upon their foundation in order to construct a more developed expres- sion of faith and faithfulness . On the other hand , if we thought that some periods in the church's life were purer and more faithful than most ...
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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 |