Atonement, Christology and the Trinity
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Abrahamic Traditions
Agnostic
atonement doctrine
Author_Vincent Br?mmer
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Chalcedonian Definition
Christian's doctrine
Christology
Compassionate Love
Constitutive Presuppositions
De Moribus
Divine Forgiveness
Divine Impassibility
Divine Individuals
divine love philosophy
doctrinal intelligibility
Economic Trinity
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Essential Trinity
Free Agents
God's Dominion
God’s Dominion
Good Life
interfaith dialogue studies
Liberum Arbitrium
Loving Fellowship
metaphysical reconciliation
Penal Substitution
platonism
reinterpretation of Christian doctrines
religious epistemology
Religious Language Game
Sacrificium Intellectus
Secondary Substance
Social Trinitarians
Soli Deo Gloria
systematic theology
trinity
True Humanity
Ultimate Happiness
Violate
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- ISBN 9780754652304
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 04 Apr 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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For many believers today the doctrines of Atonement, Christology and the Trinity seem like puzzling constructions produced by academic theologians. They are cast in unintelligible forms of thought derived from Platonism or from feudal society, and for many their existential relevance for life today remains unclear. This book introduces these doctrines and proposes a reinterpretation in the light of the claim of many Christian mystics that ultimate happiness is to be found in enjoying the loving fellowship of God. This claim is amatrix of faith in terms of which these doctrines are shown to be relevant for the life of faith of believers today. Furthermore, since this matrix can be defended within all three Abrahamic traditions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the proposed understanding of these doctrines can also contribute usefully to the necessary dialogue between these traditions in a globalised world.
Vincent Brummer is a philosopher of religion who takes systematic theology seriously. In his new book he uses his philosophical acumen to elucidate central topics of Christian doctrine: the Atonement, Christology, and the Trinity. For him they are not mere theological constructions but have their meaning and function in the context of the believer’s search for ultimate happiness. There is much to be learned from his clear and careful philosophical reworking of classical views of Reformed theology. New and controversial is the idea of a 'matrix of faith' by which Christians claim to attain ultimate happiness and which Brummer believes can be defended not only within the Christian, but also the Jewish and Islamic traditions. This will no doubt provoke discussion, and it should.
