Faith Seeking Understanding
by Migliore, Daniel L.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1991-09-01
Publisher(s): Eerdmans Pub Co
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Summary
This timely, stimulating introduction to Christian theology is both critically respectul of the church's classical theological heritage and critically open to the emphases of contemporary theology--especially feminist, black, and Latin American liberation theologies.
Author Biography
Daniel L. Migliore is Charles Hodge Professor of Systematic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary
Table of Contents
| Acknowledgments | p. x |
| Preface to the Second Edition | p. xi |
| Preface to the First Edition | p. xiii |
| Sources Frequently Cited | p. xvii |
| The Task of Theology | p. 1 |
| Theology as Faith Seeking Understanding | p. 2 |
| The Questionableness of Theology | p. 7 |
| The Questions of Theology | p. 10 |
| Methods of Asking Theological Questions | p. 16 |
| The Meaning of Revelation | p. 20 |
| What Is Revelation? | p. 20 |
| God Hidden and Revealed | p. 22 |
| Revelation as Objective and Subjective | p. 26 |
| General and Special Revelation | p. 29 |
| Models of Revelation | p. 33 |
| Revelation as God's Self-Disclosure Narrated in Scripture | p. 35 |
| Revelation, Scripture, and Church | p. 39 |
| The Authority of Scripture | p. 44 |
| The Problem of Authority in Modern Culture | p. 45 |
| Inadequate Approaches to the Authority of Scripture | p. 47 |
| The Indispensability of Scripture in Relating Us, by the Power of the Spirit, to the Living God Revealed in Jesus Christ | p. 50 |
| Principles of the Interpretation of Scripture | p. 53 |
| The Triune God | p. 64 |
| The Problem of God in Modern Theology | p. 64 |
| The Biblical Roots of the Doctrine of the Trinity | p. 68 |
| Classical Trinitarian Doctrine | p. 70 |
| Distortions in the Doctrine of God | p. 73 |
| Restatement of the Meaning of the Doctrine of the Trinity | p. 74 |
| The Attributes of God | p. 82 |
| The Electing Grace of God | p. 87 |
| The Good Creation | p. 92 |
| Christian Faith and the Ecological Crisis | p. 92 |
| Rereading the Scriptural Witness on Creation | p. 97 |
| Rethinking the Themes of the Doctrine of Creation | p. 100 |
| Trinity, Creation, and Ecology | p. 107 |
| Models of Creation | p. 110 |
| The Doctrine of Creation and Modern Science | p. 113 |
| The Providence of God and the Mystery of Evil | p. 117 |
| Belief in Providence and the Reality of Evil | p. 117 |
| Providence and Evil in the Theological Tradition | p. 121 |
| Rethinking Providence and Evil | p. 125 |
| Recent Theodicies | p. 128 |
| The Triune God and Human Suffering | p. 131 |
| Providence, Prayer, Practice | p. 136 |
| Humanity as Creature, Sinner, and New Being in Christ | p. 139 |
| Interpretations of "Image of God" | p. 139 |
| Created Humanity | p. 142 |
| Fallen Humanity | p. 149 |
| The Meaning of Original Sin and of Death as Enemy | p. 154 |
| New Humanity in Christ | p. 160 |
| The Person and Work of Jesus Christ | p. 163 |
| Problems in Christology | p. 163 |
| Principles of Christology | p. 167 |
| Patristic Christology | p. 169 |
| Rethinking Classical Affirmations of the Person of Christ | p. 174 |
| Rethinking Classical Interpretations of the Work of Christ | p. 182 |
| Violence and the Cross | p. 187 |
| Dimensions of the Resurrection of Christ | p. 191 |
| Confessing Jesus Christ in Context | p. 197 |
| The Particularity and Universality of the Gospel | p. 198 |
| Latin American Christology | p. 200 |
| African American Christology | p. 204 |
| Feminist, Womanist, and Mujerista Christologies | p. 209 |
| Hispanic Christology | p. 212 |
| Asian American Christology | p. 216 |
| The Local and the Global in Christology | p. 220 |
| The Holy Spirit and the Christian Life | p. 223 |
| Neglect and Recovery of the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit | p. 224 |
| A Sketch of a Theology of the Holy Spirit | p. 226 |
| The Christian Life: Justification | p. 235 |
| The Christian Life: Sanctification | p. 239 |
| The Christian Life: Vocation | p. 246 |
| The New Community | p. 248 |
| The Problem of the Church | p. 249 |
| New Testament Images of the Church | p. 251 |
| Critique of Current Models of the Church | p. 254 |
| The Church and the Call to Communion | p. 262 |
| The Church and the Call to Mission | p. 265 |
| Classical Marks of the Church | p. 269 |
| Proclamation, Sacraments, and Ministry | p. 274 |
| Proclamation of the Word | p. 274 |
| What Are Sacraments? | p. 279 |
| The Meaning of Baptism | p. 282 |
| The Meaning of the Lord's Supper | p. 288 |
| Baptism, the Lord's Supper, and Ethics | p. 293 |
| The Meaning of an Ordained Ministry | p. 295 |
| The Finality of Jesus Christ and Religious Pluralism | p. 301 |
| The Ambiguity of Religion | p. 301 |
| Types of Christian Theologies of the Religions | p. 306 |
| Toward a Trinitarian Theology of the Religions | p. 316 |
| Salvation in Other Religions? | p. 319 |
| Christians and Jews | p. 323 |
| Witness to Jesus Christ in a Religiously Pluralistic World | p. 326 |
| Christian Hope | p. 330 |
| The Crisis of Hope in an Age of Terrorism | p. 331 |
| Principles for Interpreting Christian Hope | p. 337 |
| Classical Symbols of Christian Hope | p. 342 |
| Eschatology and Ethics | p. 348 |
| Natural Theology: A Dialogue | p. 354 |
| The Resurrection: A Dialogue | p. 370 |
| Political Theology: A Dialogue | p. 384 |
| A Glossary of Theological Terms | p. 402 |
| Index of Names and Subjects | p. 429 |
| Index of Scripture References | p. 436 |
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