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Scripture, Creed, Theology - Lectures on the History of Christian Doctrine in the First Centuries (Paperback)
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Description: In this long-awaited edition of the late Robert Lowry
Calhoun's lectures on the history of Christian doctrine, a powerful
case is made for the scriptural basis of the ancient ecumenical
creeds. The way Calhoun reads the patristic authors helps us see
that the Trinitarian ""three-yet-one"" and Christological
""two-yet-one"" creedal formulations provide patterns for sorting
out the highly diverse biblical ways of speaking of God and of the
Messiah (Jesus) so that they are not contradictory. The implied
lesson (all the more effective for many of Calhoun's students, just
because he let them draw this conclusion by themselves) is that the
creeds are not to be understood as deductions from scripture (which
they are not in any straightforward way) but as templates for
interpreting scripture. It is Trinitarian and Christological
patterns of reading--which are implicitly operative for vast
multitudes even in churches that profess to be creedless--that make
it possible to treat the entire bible, Old and New Testaments
together, as a unified and coherently authoritative whole.
Endorsements: ""Calhoun's Lectures on the History of Christian
Doctrinehave a mythic status, so thank God we finally have them in
reality. No one had a command of theology across the centuries more
determinatively than Robert Calhoun. Those reading these lectures
cannot but receive the tradition from one of its most generous
minds. We are in George Lindbeck's debt for the labor of love in
editing these lectures."" --Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University About
the Contributor(s): Robert L. Calhoun (1896-1983) was Sterling
Professor of Historical Theology at Yale Divinity School. He taught
at Yale from 1923 until his retirement in 1965. Among his
well-known colleagues and students were Roland Bainton, Hans Frei,
Jaroslav Pelikan, Robert Wilken, Stanley Hauerwas, James Gustafson,
and George Lindbeck. George A. Lindbeck is Pitkin Professor
Emeritus of Historical Theology, Yale University. He is author of
several books, including The Church in a Postliberal Age (2003) and
The Nature of Doctrine (1984).
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