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Historical Theology - Continuity and Change in Christian Doctrine (Paperback)
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Historical Theology - Continuity and Change in Christian Doctrine (Paperback)
Series: Jaroslav Pelikan Reprint
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Description: Change is a universal phenomenon that commands the
attention of the historian. For Christian theology, change raises
special difficulties. How are we to reconcile the notion of the
revelation of an unchanging God, who is abiding truth, with the
notion of the pervading mutability of all human affairs? This
problem, which is as old as religion, is intensified by the
Christian belief in the fullness and finality of the revelation
made through Jesus Christ. Professor Pelikan begins his study of
historical theology with this basic problem and traces the origins
of the difficulties that inevitably follow upon the admission of
the possibility of change. His investigations lead him to
critically examine the dogmatic solution of Vincent of Lerins, the
later dialectical interpretation of Abelard, the approach of Thomas
Aquinas, and finally, the nineteenth century's Adolf von Harnack to
propose a working definition of Christian doctrine and of the task
of the historical theologian. Pelikan's work is a perceptive and
penetrating study of the interaction of history and theology.
Theology must be historical because man is historical. To neglect
history, or worse still, to renounce it, is to deny man and
theology their common future. Historical Theology is a worthy
introduction to a task that must continually seek to weld past,
present, and future into a living whole.
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