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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... understanding our confessions is not new to Presbyterians . In the " Adopting Act " of 1729 , the church made it clear that officers were not required to subscribe to every articulation in the West- minster Confession and Catechisms ...
... understanding the gospel by the testimony of the church from earlier ages and from many lands . " These insights made The Book of Confessions possible , initiating a new era of enriched confessional conversa- tion . In this conversation ...
... understanding throughout the centuries , it is only the call of God that constitutes a Christian community's true identity as the ekkle- sia , the " called forth ones . " The identity of a community as Christian entails renunciation of ...
... understanding of God as one who is " creator , redeemer , sustainer " in sequen- tial or alternating modes ? Does it mean refusing a picture of Jesus as the tragic hero or moral exemplar of pop historicism ? Does it rule out a ...
... Understandings of Jesus ' death that are drawn from various places in Scrip- ture and expressed throughout the Christian tradition are numerous . But all share the fundamental conviction expressed in the Nicene Creed : For us and for ...
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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 |