Description: For about the last fifteen years of his life, Thomas
A. Langford pondered how grace is central to Christian theology.
This book records his reflections and provides numerous gems of
mature Christian insight. From beginning to end, the book is
christologically focused. Grace is not something that God gives us;
rather, it is the way God gives us himself. Grace is a person--God
present to human beings. Grace is not a gift but rather a giver.
Grace is Jesus Christ. The central contribution of this work is its
personalization of grace, its sharp focus on God present in Jesus
Christ. Because its focus on grace gives the reader such a clear
and thematically developed entry point, this work is a great
introduction to theology and the life of the church, the kind that
pastors and parishioners would certainly benefit from confronting.
Endorsements: ""Who better to teach us grace than one who so
genially embodied, personified, and incarnated grace? . . .
Langford] taught Christian grace in the manner of the great
classical philosophers whom he so admired by embodying in his life
that which he professed in his books, in the classroom, and in the
pulpit. How appropriate that this manuscript was lying upon his
desk when he died. What grace that we have it now. Grace, pure
grace."" --from the foreword by William H. Willimon ""Reflections
on Grace looks at grace from every facet of systematic theology.
Methodists and Wesleyans will want to read and ponder these pages
carefully, but the work reaches out to all Christian
communions--Catholic, Orthodox, and evangelical. This grace-filled
book can help any faithful and thoughtful Christian think deeper
about and live more boldly in the constant grace of the Triune
God."" --Alan G. Padgett, Methodist minister and Professor of
Systematic Theology, Luther Seminary ""Tommy Langford exemplified
what Methodism at its best should be. We can celebrate the
publication of these last thoughts, as they demonstrate that Tommy
was unafraid to change. May we learn from his example."" --Stanley
Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics, Duke
Divinity School About the Contributor(s): Thomas A. Langford
(1929-2000) served the United Methodist Church and Duke University
throughout his adult life. Langford was ordained a Methodist
minister in 1952. He was the primary author of the United Methodist
Church's ""Our Theological Task"" (1988) and a member of the World
Methodist Council bilateral theological discussions with the Roman
Catholic Church, the World Lutheran Federation, and the World
Reformed Alliance. He was the author or editor of fourteen books
including Intellect and Hope (on the thought of Michael Polanyi),
In Search of Foundations (on English theology and culture), and the
widely read Practical Divinity (theology in the Wesleyan
tradition). This current book, Reflections on Grace, is the work
that he had been writing during the last years of his life. Philip
A. Rolnick is Professor of Theology at the University of St. Thomas
in St. Paul, MN. He is the author of Analogical Possibilities: How
Words Refer to God and Person, Grace, and God (2007) Jonathan R.
Wilson is Pioneer McDonald Professor of Theology at Carey
Theological College. He completed his PhD at Duke in 1989 under the
supervision of Thomas Langford.
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