Christian Theology

Christian Theology

by Millard J. Erickson
Christian Theology

Christian Theology

by Millard J. Erickson

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Overview

Leading evangelical scholar Millard Erickson offers a new edition of his bestselling textbook, now substantially updated and revised throughout. This edition takes into account feedback from professors and students and reflects current theological conversations, with added material on the atonement, justification, and divine foreknowledge. Erickson's comprehensive introduction is biblical, contemporary, moderate, and fair to various positions, and it applies doctrine to Christian life and ministry.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781441241368
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Publication date: 08/15/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 1200
Sales rank: 485,230
File size: 6 MB

About the Author

Millard J. Erickson (PhD, Northwestern University) has served as a pastor and seminary dean and has taught at several schools, including Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Western Seminary (Portland and San Jose), and Baylor University. He has also held numerous visiting professorships, both in the United States and internationally. Erickson is the author of many books, including Introducing Christian Doctrine. He lives in Mounds View, Minnesota.
Millard J. Erickson (PhD, Northwestern University) has served as a pastor and seminary dean and has taught at several schools, including Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Western Seminary (Portland and San Jose), and Baylor University. He has also held numerous visiting professorships, both in the United States and internationally, and is the author of many books, including Christian Theology.

Table of Contents

Part 1: Studying God
1. What Is Theology?
2. The Possibility of Theology
3. The Method of Theology
4. Contextualizing Theology
5. Two Special Issues: Biblical Criticism and Theological Language
Part 2: Knowing God
6. God's Universal Revelation
7. God's Particular Revelation
8. The Preservation of the Revelation: Inspiration
9. The Dependability of God's Word: Inerrancy
10. The Power of God's Word: Authority
Part 3: What God Is Like
11. The Greatness of God
12. The Goodness of God
13. God's Nearness and Distance: Immanence and Transcendence
14. God's Three-in-Oneness: The Trinity
Part 4: What God Does
15. God's Plan
16. God's Originating Work: Creation
17. God's Continuing Work: Providence
18. Evil and God's World: A Special Problem
19. God's Special Agents: Angels
Part 5: Humanity
20. Introduction to the Doctrine of Humanity
21. The Origin of Humanity
22. The Image of God in the Human
23. The Constitutional Nature of the Human
24. The Universality of Humanity
Part 6: Sin
25. The Nature of Sin
26. The Source of Sin
27. The Results of Sin
28. The Magnitude of Sin
29. The Social Dimension of Sin
Part 7: The Person of Christ
30. Contemporary Issues in Christological Method
31. The Deity of Christ
32. The Humanity of Christ
33. The Unity of the Person of Christ
34. The Virgin Birth
Part 8: The Work of Christ
35. Introduction to the Work of Christ
36. Theories of the Atonement
37. The Central Theme of the Atonement
38. The Extent of the Atonement
Part 9: The Holy Spirit
39. The Person of the Holy Spirit
40. The Work of the Holy Spirit
41. Recent Issues regarding the Holy Spirit
Part 10: Salvation
42. Conceptions of Salvation
43. The Antecedent to Salvation: Predestination
44. The Beginning of Salvation: Subjective Aspects
45. The Beginning of Salvation: Objective Aspects
46. The Continuation of Salvation
47. The Completion of Salvation
48. The Means and Extent of Salvation
Part 11: The Church
49. The Nature of the Church
50. The Role of the Church
51. The Government and Unity of the Church
52. The Initiatory Rite of the Church: Baptism
53. The Continuing Rite of the Church: The Lord's Supper
Part 12: The Last Things
54. Introduction to Eschatology
55. Individual Eschatology
56. The Second Coming and Its Consequents
57. Millennial and Tribulational Views
58. Final States
Concluding Thoughts
Indexes
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