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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... relation- ships to our time and place . We know too well that there is a slip between the formal place of confessions in our ecclesiology and the way things are in ses- sions , presbyteries , and our own offices and homes . To the ...
... relationship to its tradition . We do not understand tradition as an evolutionary " development of doctrine " in which the church's apprehension of the gospel becomes fuller in each succeeding age . Neither do we identify a particular ...
... relationship with their own faith . The ecumenical creeds do not fare well in this cultural climate . It is not diffi- cult to see that when it comes to creeds and confessions , we tend to assume that old is bad . Some Christian ...
... relationship gone awry , a conversation broken off in anger . A conversation with the Reformation confessions and their framers is not likely to be a sweet and sentimental journey . To the contrary , any remembrance of the Reformation ...
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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 |