Description
Book SynopsisAn internationally known expert on early Christian theology offers a clear and concise text on basic Christian doctrine for beginning students of theology.
Table of ContentsContents
1. What Is Classical Christian Doctrine?
2. Christian Scripture:
The Source of Classical Christian Doctrine
3. "The Lord Our God Is One":
The Jewish God and the Christian Faith
4. "And the Word Was God":
The Christian Faith and the Greek Philosophers
5. "He Who Has Seen Me Has Seen the Father":
The Monarchian Approach to God
6. "Today I Have Begotten You":
Origen and the Eternal Generation of the Son
7. "One God the Father" and "One Lord Jesus Christ":
Arius and the Council of Nicaea
8. Truly God and Truly Man:
Defining the Nature of Jesus
9. "And in the Holy Spirit":
The Struggle to Understand the Spirit
10. God the Father:
"Maker of Heaven and Earth"
11. Binding the Strong Man:
The Redemptive Work of Christ
12. "I Will Build My Church":
Defining the Church
13. "The Washing of Regeneration":
"One Baptism for the Forgiveness of Sins"
14. The Christian Eschatological Hope:
The Resurrection of the Dead
15. "And They Came to Life and Reigned with Christ a Thousand Years":
The Millennium
Index
