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God, Creation, and Revelation: A Neo-Evangelical Theology
by Marguerite Shuster
Marguerite Shuster
- ISBN-10:
- 0802804608
- ISBN-13:
- 9780802804600
- Pub. Date:
- 07/22/1991
- Publisher:
- Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
- ISBN-10:
- 0802804608
- ISBN-13:
- 9780802804600
- Pub. Date:
- 07/22/1991
- Publisher:
- Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
God, Creation, and Revelation: A Neo-Evangelical Theology
by Marguerite Shuster
Marguerite Shuster
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Overview
This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. A theology that is real, readable, and relevant — such is Paul Jewett's God, Creation, and Redemption. Writing from a distinctively evangelical and Reformed viewpoint, Jewett offers a general, systematic introduction to these doctrines of the Christian church: how we know God (revelation and Scripture); who God is (the divine nature); what God is like (the divine attributes); and what God has done (creation). While upholding the historic Christian faith, Jewett's approach to Christian teaching is uniquely "neo-evangelical" in that he seeks to expound and clarify orthodox Christianity for Christians today: Jewett purposely sets forth his systematic theology in light of scientific and social issues that confront the church in the contemporary world. Throughout the book Jewett also refers to literary masterpieces and to the church's hymns, giving the reader a greater appreciation for the theological treasures in our literature and our hymnody.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780802804600 |
|---|---|
| Publisher: | Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company |
| Publication date: | 07/22/1991 |
| Pages: | 554 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.24(d) |
About the Author
Currently the Harold John Ockenga Chair of Preaching andTheology at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena,California. The author of Power, Pathology, Paradox: TheDynamics of Evil and Good, she also completed andedited Paul K. Jewett's Who We Are: Our Dignity asHuman (Eerdmans).
Table of Contents
| Preface | xv | |
| Unit 1 | Introduction: A Prolegomenon To Dogmatics | |
| I. | Definition of Terms: Theology as Christian, Systematic, and Dogmatic | 4 |
| Excursus: Concerning Theology and Theologies | 11 | |
| II. | Theological Method: Philosophy, Science, and Theology | 17 |
| III. | Speaking of God | 25 |
| A. | Introduction | 25 |
| B. | Concerning Myth, Symbol, and Analogy | 28 |
| C. | The Revelation/Faith Context of Theological Language | 34 |
| D. | Conclusion | 38 |
| First Addendum: A Comment on Sexist Language | 44 | |
| Second Addendum: On Diction and Style in Theological Discourse | 48 | |
| IV. | Alternatives to Christian Theism | 50 |
| Addendum: Concerning the Theistic Proofs | 54 | |
| "Veiling"--A Sermon | 59 | |
| Unit 2 | How We Know God: Revelation and Scripture | |
| I. | God's Self-Disclosure in Creation and Providence | 68 |
| II. | God's Self-Disclosure in Jesus Christ | 74 |
| A. | Introduction | 74 |
| B. | The Modes (Modalities) of Special Revelation | 77 |
| C. | Faith, History, Reason--and Revelation | 79 |
| Addendum: God Hidden in His Revelation: The Doctrine of the Divine Incomprehensibility | 85 | |
| "Revelation"--A Sermon | 89 | |
| III. | God's Self-Disclosure in the Witness of Scripture to Jesus Christ | 95 |
| A. | The Canon of Scripture and the Scripture as Canon | 95 |
| First Addendum: The Canon as Closed | 101 | |
| Second Addendum: The Sufficiency (Perfection) of Scripture | 102 | |
| B. | The Preservation (Text) and Translation of Scripture | 105 |
| 1. | The Church as the Custodian of Scripture | 105 |
| 2. | The Church as the Translator of Scripture | 107 |
| Addendum: The King James Version: A Comment on the Place of Beauty in the Worship of God | 113 | |
| C. | The Unity of Scripture | 118 |
| 1. | Introduction | 118 |
| 2. | Unity-in-Diversity | 120 |
| a. | One Covenant Differently Administered | 120 |
| b. | Promise and Fulfillment | 121 |
| c. | The Allegorizing of the Old Testament in the New | 122 |
| D. | The Authority of Scripture | 125 |
| 1. | Introduction | 125 |
| 2. | The Inspiration of Scripture | 126 |
| a. | Introduction | 126 |
| b. | Concerning Dictation and Inerrancy | 127 |
| c. | The Divine/Human Character of Scripture | 130 |
| 1) | The Position of the Protestant Reformers | 130 |
| 2) | The Position of the Protestant Scholastics | 131 |
| 3) | Inspiration as Verbal and Plenary | 136 |
| d. | Conclusion | 139 |
| Addendum: Continuing Problems and Possible Resolutions | 143 | |
| E. | The Interpretation and Understanding of Scripture | 147 |
| 1. | The Perspicuity of Scripture | 147 |
| 2. | The Complexity of the Hermeneutical Task | 149 |
| a. | Introduction | 149 |
| b. | The Reformers' Position | 150 |
| c. | Statement of a Protestant and Evangelical Hermeneutic | 153 |
| 1) | Introduction | 153 |
| 2) | Irreducible Differences of Interpretation: The Place of Faith and Reason in the Understanding of Scripture | 157 |
| Addendum: Concerning Preaching and the Hearing (Application) of Scripture | 161 | |
| "A Book with a Difference"--A Sermon | 164 | |
| Unit 3 | Who God Is: the Divine Nature | |
| I. | God Is Personal Being | 174 |
| A. | God and the Philosophic Absolute | 174 |
| B. | The Name of God | 177 |
| 1. | The Old Testament Data | 177 |
| 2. | The New Testament Data | 179 |
| 3. | The Name [characters not reproducible]rd | 180 |
| 4. | Concerning the Tetragrammaton | 180 |
| C. | Some Basic Affirmations | 182 |
| 1. | God Is the Living God | 182 |
| 2. | God Is Unique | 183 |
| 3. | God Is Free | 183 |
| D. | Conclusion | 184 |
| Addendum: Concerning Idolatry | 185 | |
| II. | God Is the Holy One | 189 |
| A. | Introduction | 189 |
| B. | The Biblical Data | 191 |
| Excursus: Further Comments on Matters Related to the Affirmation: God Is the Holy One | 196 | |
| 1. | The Twofold Meaning of the Term "Holiness" as Used of God | 196 |
| 2. | The Wrath of God | 196 |
| 3. | The Beauty of God | 197 |
| C. | The Divine Transcendence | 198 |
| 1. | Introduction | 198 |
| 2. | Radical Restatements of the Doctrine | 204 |
| 3. | Moderate Restatements of the Doctrine: Transcendence as Personal Encounter | 207 |
| a. | Introduction | 207 |
| b. | The Position of Karl Heim | 209 |
| Adendum: Concerning Apophatic Theology | 218 | |
| "A Fire and a Name" -- A Sermon | 220 | |
| III. | God Is Love | 228 |
| A. | Introduction | 228 |
| B. | Agape and Eros | 230 |
| C. | The Biblical Data | 232 |
| Addendum: Erotic Love as the Symbol of Agape | 235 | |
| D. | Theological Analysis | 238 |
| 1. | Introduction | 238 |
| 2. | God's Love as Grace | 240 |
| 3. | God's Love as Wrath | 244 |
| E. | Conclusion | 249 |
| Addendum: The Divine Wrath and the Symbolism of Fire | 252 | |
| "Love's Resolve" -- A Sermon | 254 | |
| IV. | God Is a Trinity of Holy Love | 261 |
| A. | Introduction | 261 |
| B. | The Significance of the Doctrine and Its Location in the Structure of Systematics | 263 |
| C. | The Biblical Basis of the Doctrine | 268 |
| Excursus: Concerning the Vestigia | 273 | |
| D. | The Exposition of the Doctrine | 275 |
| 1. | The Trinity of Being: The Oneness of God | 275 |
| a. | Introduction | 275 |
| Excursus: A Historical Note | 275 | |
| b. | God's Oneness: A Oneness of Essential Being | 278 |
| Addendum: The Trinity in Process Theology | 281 | |
| 2. | The Trinity of Being: The Threeness of God | 283 |
| a. | Introduction | 283 |
| b. | God's Threeness: A Threeness of Personal Subsistence | 285 |
| c. | The Relational Meaning of the Trinitarian Name: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit | 287 |
| Concerning "Monogeneis," "Procession," and the "Filioque" | 292 | |
| 3. | The Trinity of Being: God's Oneness-in-Threeness and His Threeness-in-Oneness | 294 |
| a. | Introduction | 294 |
| b. | God's Oneness Viewed as Numeric Identity | 295 |
| c. | The Mutual Indwelling of the Persons of the Godhead | 297 |
| d. | The Individual (Psychological) and the Social Analogies of the Trinity | 300 |
| Addendum: Concerning the Logos | 303 | |
| 4. | The Trinity of Revelation | 305 |
| a. | Introduction | 305 |
| b. | The Works of God Are One, Yet by Appropriation | 306 |
| c. | The Father Who Becomes Our Father | 308 |
| d. | The Son Who Becomes Our Savior | 310 |
| e. | The Spirit Who Becomes Our Sanctifier | 311 |
| The Meaning of "Paraclete" | 314 | |
| f. | Economic Subordinationism | 315 |
| Addendum: Concerning the Subordination of the Son to the Father and the Woman to the Man | 322 | |
| E. | Sexist Language and the Doctrine of the Trinity | 323 |
| "The Oldest Math" -- A Sermon | 326 | |
| Unit 4 | What God is Like: the Divine Attributes | |
| I. | Introduction | 336 |
| A. | May Attributes Be Predicated of God? Concerning Nominalism and Realism | 338 |
| B. | The Anthropomorphic/Analogical Character of Such Predication | 340 |
| C. | Concerning the Attributes and the Doxological Statements of Worship | 341 |
| D. | The Ultimate Unity of the Divine Nature and Attributes | 343 |
| First Addendum: On the Classification of the Attributes | 344 | |
| Second Addendum: Concerning the Divine Simplicity | 346 | |
| II. | God's Will and Power | 348 |
| A. | Introduction | 348 |
| B. | The Biblical Data | 349 |
| C. | Some Basic Affirmations | 353 |
| 1. | God Determines the Meaning of Her Power | 353 |
| 2. | God's Power Is Not Natural Causality | 355 |
| 3. | God's Power Is Her Personal Will, Which Is Supreme over All | 357 |
| 4. | God's Power Revealed in the Weakness of the Cross | 359 |
| "A Strange Power"--A Sermon | 362 | |
| III. | God's Wisdom and Knowledge | 369 |
| A. | Introduction | 369 |
| B. | The Biblical Data | 370 |
| C. | Some Basic Affirmations | 372 |
| 1. | God's Wisdom and Knowledge Are Ultimately One | 372 |
| 2. | God's Knowledge Is Both Comprehensive and Intensive | 373 |
| 3. | God Infallibly Knows the Future | 375 |
| D. | Concluding Observations | 378 |
| 1. | God's Omniscience and the Quality of Human Life | 378 |
| 2. | God's Wisdom Revealed in the Foolishness of the Cross | 380 |
| IV. | God's Justice/Righteousness and Mercy | 382 |
| A. | Introduction | 382 |
| B. | Justice and the Divine Will | 383 |
| C. | The Divine Mercy | 385 |
| 1. | Introduction | 385 |
| 2. | Divine Mercy from the Biblical Perspective | 386 |
| D. | The Divine Righteousness and the Cross | 391 |
| V. | God's Faithfulness and Suffering | 396 |
| A. | Introduction: Concerning the Divine Immutability/Impassibility | 396 |
| Excursus: A Historical Note | 398 | |
| B. | A Restatement of the Doctrine of Immutability | 401 |
| 1. | Introduction | 401 |
| 2. | Salvation, An Act of Suffering Love | 404 |
| a. | Old Testament Anticipation | 404 |
| b. | New Testament Fulfillment | 408 |
| 3. | Theologia Crucis: A Comment | 409 |
| VI. | God's Omnipresence and Eternity | 413 |
| A. | God and Space | 413 |
| 1. | Introduction | 413 |
| 2. | The Jesus Event as Paradigm | 415 |
| 3. | Concerning "Easter Space" | 419 |
| 4. | The Pentecostal Event as Paradigm | 420 |
| B. | God and Time | 422 |
| 1. | Introduction | 422 |
| 2. | The Augustinian Legacy | 423 |
| Excursus: A Comment on Process Thought | 424 | |
| 3. | What It Means to Say "God Is Eternal" | 425 |
| a. | Introduction | 425 |
| b. | God's Eternity as "Easter Time" | 427 |
| c. | Conclusion | 431 |
| Unit 5 | What God Has Done: Creation | |
| I. | Introduction | 438 |
| II. | Rejected Options: Platonism, Gnostic Emanation, and Pantheism | 440 |
| Addendum: Creation as "Birthing"? | 444 | |
| III. | Who Is the Creator and What Has He Done? | 446 |
| A. | Creation Is the Work of the Father through the Son and the Spirit | 446 |
| B. | Creation Is the Actualizing of the Divine Will | 450 |
| 1. | Introduction | 450 |
| 2. | Creation and the Divine Decree (Decretum Dei) | 451 |
| 3. | Creation and Causality | 453 |
| Excursus: On the Location of Creation in the Creed as the First Article | 454 | |
| C. | Starting with Nothing: Creation as Creatio ex Nihilo | 455 |
| 1. | Introduction | 455 |
| 2. | "And God Said ... and It Was So" | 457 |
| D. | Working with Something: Creation as Creatio Continua | 459 |
| First Addendum: On the Meaning of Genesis 1:2 | 462 | |
| Second Addendum: On the Meaning of "Heaven and Earth" in Scripture and in the Confessions of the Church | 467 | |
| IV. | Creation and the Question of Temporal Origins | 470 |
| A. | "In the Beginning ..." Genesis 1:1 | 470 |
| B. | Contemporary Cosmological Models | 472 |
| C. | "In Six Days ..." Genesis 1:3-31; Exodus 20:11 | 478 |
| V. | Creation and the Divine Wisdom | 485 |
| A. | Introduction | 485 |
| B. | The World Viewed as the Product of Min | 486 |
| C. | God's Purpose in Creation | 491 |
| D. | The Problem of Evil | 496 |
| VI. | Creation and the Christian Life | 502 |
| "Beginnings"--A Sermon | 506 | |
| Indexes | 513 |
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