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The Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed of AD 381 was a key statement
in the context of the theological controversies and confessional
atmosphere of the fourth century church. Alexander Irving explores
Christian belief about God, creation and redemption as it is
expressed in the Creed, and thereby contributes to the ongoing task
of the church's self-examination of its talk about God. * Sets out
the importance of our tradition and the intrinsic relationship
between the thought of the church today and the thought of the
church across time. * Grounds the Creed in its historical and
theological context. * Connects the theology of the Creed to some
areas of contemporary theological inquiry. The Creed sets out the
basic parameters of Christian belief. While the specifics of what
is believed within those parameters are not determined, there is an
internal logic to the Creed's presentation of the Christian faith.
The contrast between God's internal and external relations is the
theological motif that gives particular shape to the Creed, which
expresses an expansive vision of the generosity of God, with his
relation to creation grounded in his being as love.
In The Doctrine of the Incarnation Opened, an abridgement of Edward
Irving's (1792-1834) sermons, readers have fresh access to and
insightful comment on Irving's distinctive views regarding the
person of Jesus Christ. The book follows the sermons in a logical
progression: the goal and method of the incarnation, the events of
the incarnate life and the death of Christ, and the effects of the
incarnation. For Irving, God the Son's assumption of a fallen human
nature was of the upmost importance, and garnered most attention.
This view also dominates Irving's soteriology, according to which
the incarnate Son takes over the human will, reforming the very
origin of sin, and offers obedience to the Father as a sacrifice of
praise. Irving's radical Christological thought informed the
thinking of notable theologians such as John McLeod Campbell,
Thomas F. Torrance, and Karl Barth. With an introduction by G.
McFarlane and a critical response by J.D. Cameron, The Doctrine of
the Incarnation Opened provides an accessible format to engage with
Irving's influential thoughts and ideas. Â
T. F. Torrance's proposal for natural theology constitutes one of
the most creative and provocative elements in his work. By
re-envisioning natural theology as the cognitive structure of
theology determined by God's self-revelation in Jesus Christ (and
not as the task of philosophically reflecting on the nature or
existence of God aside from religious presuppositions), Torrance
moves through and beyond Barth's resistance to natural theology.
This book establishes Torrance's unique reconstruction of natural
theology within its proper intellectual context, providing a fresh
analysis of this important methodological innovation as it emerges
from Torrance's realist epistemology. As Irving demonstrates, in
Torrance's distinctive conception of science, he operated with an
approach to cognition that functions via a realist synthesis of
experience and understanding, and in Torrance's theological
science, this synthesis of experience and understanding is the
synthesis of revealed theology and natural theology. The author
argues that this reconstruction of natural theology expresses a
dramatic vision for human agency within theological cognition,
adding the necessity of the human knowing subject to the priority
of the divine revealer. Finally, this book marries Torrance's
accomplishments in reconstructing natural theology to his
Christocentric theological method, in which God is both revealed
and known in the person of Jesus Christ, fully God and fully human.
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