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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... particular time and place to express the eternal faith of the church in a spe- cific context . In the early centuries of the church , the Nicene and Apostles ' Creeds were composed to make clear the faith of the church in the midst of 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 Christians are called to understand our- selves as participants in a ...
... particular attention to one of their voices , and times when we participate actively . At least that is how we are invited to understand ourselves as part of the " communion of saints . " Christian conversation across time and space is ...
... particular church . As the voice of the church adopted by the Presbyterian Church ( U.S.A. ) , the confessions have a prior claim on individual conviction . Each one of us is answerable to the confessions before they are answerable to ...
... particular churches . Thus , alongside West- minster's acknowledgment of confessional error and its relegation of confes- sions to subordinate status is its conviction that " for the better government and further edification of the ...
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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 |