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God the Leader
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Kathleen M. Rochester; Foreword by R. W. L. Moberly
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In failing to take the sacramentality of the word of God seriously,
the preaching of the church has suffered negative consequences. As
a result, preaching has often become, at best, a form of
instruction or, at worst, an incantation of sorts rather than an
integral part of deepening our relationship with Christ by
functioning sacramentally to bring about divine participation with
Jesus' corporeal humanity in his living word. In order to recover
this sacramental reality, this volume argues that one should
consider the annunciation to Mary where, with the sermon of
Gabriel, the corporeal Christ took up residence in the flesh of his
hearer, and delivered to her precisely what was contained within
his own flesh: the fullness of the Godhead (Col. 2:9). When
understood as a biblical paradigm for the church, it becomes clear
that what happened to Mary can, indeed, happen to Christians of the
present day. Proclamation, thus, delivers the Christ to us.
This book is the first of two volumes collecting together Michael
C. Rea's most substantial work in analytic theology. This volume
considers the nature of God and our ability to talk and discover
truths about God, whereas the companion volume focuses on
theological questions about humanity and the human condition. The
chapters in the first part of Volume I explore issues pertaining to
discourse about God and the authority of scripture. Part two
focuses on divine attributes, while part three discusses doctrine
of the trinity and related issues.
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