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FROM THE INTRODUCTION BY TRANSLATOR GEOFFREY W. BROMILEY: Helmut
Thielicke "has a vivid awareness of the actual needs of actual
people living in this age of supreme storm and stress. He sees how
the biblical message, how Jesus Christ Himself as the living
message, answers powerfully and sufficiently to these needs. He
appreciates that faith in Him is not an easy thing, and yet that
true faith carries us to victory even in doubt, anxiety, distress
and the terrors of conflict and destruction. He attains almost an
apocalyptic stature in his depiction of our shattered world and in
his proclamation of the message of God's salvation and judgements
within it. Here are sermons to put into the hands of contemporaries
who suffer from the fears and anxieties which Thielicke so
graphically describes but who do not yet perceive the true meaning
and relevance of what God did for man in the giving of His only
Son. Here are sermons from which to learn how the old Gospel, first
given in a very different world, may come with all the living
comfort and the regenerative force of truth and reality to our own
age too, made relevant by the Holy Spirit on the lips of the
sensitive and dedicated preacher."
"Far too many people, Christians not excluded, are self-centeredly
preoccupied with their own marital problems and their attempt to
engineer solutions to them. A theology of marriage can help them to
achieve a God-centered look at the larger situation of which their
marriages constitute a small, if by no means unimportant, part. In
the long run a few look means a new understanding, and a new
understanding means a new practice." - Geoffrey Bromiley Offering a
new look at the increasingly unfashionable institution of marriage,
Geoffrey Bromiley presents here a timely theological study which,
unlike others books on marriage, aims exclusively to relate
marriage to God as Creator, Son, and Holy Spirit. Bromiley observes
that God's work on reconciliation makes it possible for his people
also to achieve reconciliation with one another, particularly in
the marriage relationship. In addition to thoroughly discussing the
relationship of the Trinity to marriage, Bromiley examines such
topics as incest, adultery and fornication, celibacy, the
permanency of marriage, and remarriage after the death of a
partner. "Dr. Bromiley pays close, cautious, and sensitive
attention to virtually every Scriptural passage about marriage,
even the passages that are particularly difficult for our own era
to cope with. He makes no attempt to rewrite the Bible in the
interest of some specially modern idea. It is a book rooted deeply
in the immeasurable principles of Creation and Redemption, and is
full of sane, courageous, sound teaching." - Thomas Howard Gordon
College "I am very pleased with the book and feel it will fill a
very special place in the available literature on Christian
marriage...It stands apart from the superficial writing that all
but characterizes our time. How-to books are of little value apart
from the basic theological understanding which must precede them.
This is a book I would like to have written, and a book which will
be required reading for my students." - Dwight Small Westmont
College Geoffrey W. Bromiley is professor emeritus of Church
History and Historical Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary in
Pasadena, California. He is best known as the translator of
numerous theological books, including the 9-volume Theological
Dictionary of the New Testament.
Volume III of the highly respected Theological Dictionary of the
Old Testament expands the scope of this fundamental reference tool
for biblical studies. Ranging from gillulim (-idols-) to haras (-to
tear down-), these 57 articles include thorough etymological
analysis of the Hebrew roots and their derivatives within the
context of Semitic and cognate languages, diachronically
considered, as well as Septuagint, New Testament, and
extracanonical usages.
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Ethics (Paperback)
Karl Barth; Edited by Dietrich Braun; Translated by Geoffrey W. Bromiley
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Originally published in German in an edition edited by Dietrich
Braun, Karl Barth's Ethics is at last available in English. This
volume, containing lectures given as courses at the University at
Munster in 1928 and 1929, represents Barth's first systematic
attempt at a theological account of Christian ethics. Although
composed over fifty years ago, just prior to Barth's thirty-year
devotion to Church Dogmatics, many of its themes, problems, and
conclusions are astonishingly relevant today (his critique of
competitiveness and of technology, for example). While this work is
concerned with the foundations of ethics, it also reveals Barth's
highly practical interest in ethics and his special concern to
avoid legalism and yet to maintain a structured divine command.
Barth's ethics are arranged on a Trinitarian basis, dealing in
succession with the command of God the Creator (life), the command
of God the Reconciler (law), and the command of God the Redeemer
(promise). "It is then a work of the greatest interest showing the
development of Barth through the liberal period of thought toward a
more positive and theologically grounded ethic, which he later
developed under the rubric of the command of God." --Thomas F.
Torrance Geoffrey W. Bromiley, General Editor of the new, revised
edition of the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia, is
Professor Emeritus of Church History and Historical Theology,
Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California.
Widely regarded as the foremost theologian in the world today,
Wolfhart Pannenberg here unfolds his long-awaited systematic
theology, for which his many previous (primarily methodological)
writings have laid the groundwork.Volume 2 of Pannenberg's magnum
opus moves beyond the highly touted discussion of systematic
prolegomena and theology proper in Volume 1 to commanding,
comprehensive statements concerning creation, the nature of man,
Christology, and salvation. Throughout, Pannenberg brings to bear
the vast command of historical and exegetical knowledge and
philosophical argumentation for which he is well known.
Widely regarded as the foremost theologian in the world today,
Wolfhart Pannenberg here unfolds his long-awaited systematic
theology, for which his many previous (primarily methodological)
writings have laid the groundwork.Marked by a creative blend of
philosophical, historical, anthropological, and exegetical
analysis, Volume 1 focuses on the Christian doctrine of God,
offering original material on the concept of truth, the nature of
revelation, language about God, the nature of the Trinity, and the
public aspect of theology.
This historically significant volume collects Karl Barth's lectures
on John Calvin, delivered at the University of Gottingen in 1922.
The book opens with an illuminating sketch of medieval theology, an
appreciation of Luther's breakthrough, and a comparative study of
the roles of Zwingli and Calvin. The main body of the work consists
of an increasingly sympathetic, and at times amusing, account of
Calvin's life up to his recall to Geneva. In the process, Barth
examines and evaluates the early theological writings of Calvin,
especially the first edition of the Institutes.
Emphasizing theological rather than historical questions, Kasemann
divides Romans into sections according to what he sees as the key
theological concept of the letter--the righteousness of God.
Detailed bibliographies are provided for each section of the text.
"Representing the only larger dogmatics ever completed by Karl
Barth, the Gvttingen Dogmatics, a profoundly pastoral work,
prefigures the unfinished Christian Dogmatics of M]nster and the
Church Dogmatics of Bonn and Basel. In this first volume Barth
defines dogmatics as "scientific reflection on the Word of God"-the
Word that is (1) spoken by God in revelation, (2) recorded in holy
scripture, and (3) proclaimed and heard in Christian preaching.
After his lengthy prolegomena on the threefold form of the Word of
God, Barth discusses in depth the doctrine of God. His treatment of
the other major doctrinal loci in his preaching-oriented
dogmatics-anthropology, reconciliation, and redemption
(eschatology)-will appear in Volume 2. Introduction by Daniel. L.
Migliore."
Introduces the reader to the views of the most outstanding
theologians in the history of Christianity. The book's three
sections deal with Patristic Theology, Medieval and Reformation
Theology, and Modern Theology.>
Geoffrey Bromiley, translator of Barth's Church Dogmatics, has
written this helpful and comprehensive introduction.>
Infant baptism is an issue that divides the largest Protestant
denomination from its sister denominations; and it remains, in many
churches, the subject of frequent and sometimes heated debate. This
is particularly the case in Reformation churches where the
influence of Baptist doctrine has caused members to question their
practice of baptizing infants. Children of Promise is Geoffrey
Bromiley's attempt to "get at the biblical understanding which
underlies the continuation of infant baptism in many of the
evangelical churches." In addition to examining the scriptural
basis for baptizing infants, Bromiley also considers the meaning of
baptism, the relation of baptism to the three persons of the
Trinity, and the question of the salvation of infants. A concluding
chapter presents a list of guidelines for churches to follow as
they examine the practice of baptizing infants. "This is a superb
little book, convincingly argued on biblical grounds and very well
presented in a clear, commendable, irenic style." - Thomas F.
Torrance Geoffrey W. Bromiley is professor emeritus of Church
History and Historical Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary in
Pasadena, California.He is best known as the translator of numerous
theological books, including the 9-volume Theological Dictionary of
the New Testament.
"An ideal historical theology, or even an introduction to it," says
Geoffrey Bromiley, "lies beyond the limits of human possibility."
And, indeed, he does not intend this volume to be an all-inclusive
theological study about everybody and everything. Rather, "this
work is composed for beginners, for inquirers, for those who know
nothing or very little of the history of theology, but who want to
know something, or something more." The approach here is
theological rather than strictly historical. Among the implications
of this approach are an acknowledgement that God has really spoken
to the church, a genuine and specific Christian commitment on the
part of the historical theologian, the belief that historical
theology is a discipline of the church, and the view that
historical theology serves the mission and ministry of the church.
Bromiley maintains that the student learns theology best by reading
the words and thoughts of theologians, not by reading their
biographies. Thus, in selecting those theologians included in this
volume, he has considered not only their representativeness in the
total flow of historical theology, but also the availability of
their work in English.Likewise, his bibliographies concentrate on
primary sources. "From Ignatius to Antioch to Thieliecke of
Hamburg, Bromiley has selected the dominant contributors to
Christian thought and evaluated their work. The selection is
discriminating; the summaries are thorough; the analyses are
perceptive. Nowhere else between two covers will we find a better
chart of continual struggle to express the apostolic faith in terms
credible to each generation. Pastors, laypersons, Bible teachers,
college students - all will profit from a trek through the nineteen
centuries of church theology with Geoffrey Bromiley as a guide. -
David Allan Hubbard Fuller Theological Seminary "A useful study
tool; it not only directs the reader to primary source materials
but also raises pointed questions along the way." - Carl F. H.
Henry Geoffrey W. Bromiley is professor emeritus of Church History
and Historical Theology at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena,
California. He is best known as the translator of numerous
theological books, including the 9-volume Theological Dictionary of
the New Testament.
"In the present study we shall be primarily concerned with
sacramental practice and interpretation as they are to be found in
the Reformation churches and especially those which took the
Reformed rather than the Lutheran path. But this does not mean that
we shall be committed merely to an historical survey. "The main
interest of the Reformers themselves was to be true to the
teachings of Holy Scripture itself, and we shall be most loyal to
them if, along with the general lines of their tradition, we
attempt a biblical rather than an historical statement. This will
have a threefold advantage. It will submit the Reformed
interpretation itself to its own biblical standard. It will bring
us into fruitful contact with other views in which over-emphases or
distortions conceal positive elements of truth. And it will give to
our discussion a living relevance for Christians of the present
day, for whom the sacraments may never be regarded merely as
objects of scientific enquiry, but must always be gratefully used
as divinely ordained means of blessing." - Geoffrey W. Bromiley
(from the introduction) Geoffrey W. Bromiley is professor emeritus
of Church History and Historical Theology at Fuller Theological
Seminary in Pasadena, California. He is best known as the
translator of numerous theological books, including the 9-volume
Theological Dictionary of the New Testament.
Widely regarded as the twentieth century's greatest theologian,
Karth Barth refocused the task of Christian theology and
demonstrated its relevance to every domain of human life, from the
spiritual to the social to the political. It is precisely the broad
sweep of Barth's theology that makes a book like The Great Passion
of such great value -- a succinct yet comprehensive introduction to
Barth's entire theological program. Of the many people who write on
the life and thought of Karl Barth, Eberhard Busch is uniquely
placed. A world-renowned expert on Barth's theology, he also served
as Barth's personal assistant from 1965 to 1968. As Busch explains,
one cannot fully understand Barth the theologian apart from
understanding Barth the man. In this book he weaves doctrine and
biography into a superb presentation of Barth's complete work.
Busch's purpose in this introduction is to guide readers through
the main themes of the multivolume Church Dogmatics against the
horizon of our own times and problems. In ten sections Busch
clearly explains Barth's views on all of the major subject areas of
systematic theology: the nature of revelation, Israel and
Christology, the Trinity and the doctrine of predestination, the
-problem- of religion, gospel and law, creation, salvation, the
Holy Spirit, ecclesiology, and eschatology. A distinctive feature
of the book is the way Busch lets Barth speak for himself, often
through surprising quotations and paraphrases. Busch also shows how
Barth's writing should be read as a dialogue, constantly and
consciously engaging other voices past and present, both inside and
outside the church. Most important, The Great Passion demonstrates
that Barth's thought is still remarkably helpful today.
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