Barth, Origen, and Universal Salvation offers a bold new presentation of universal salvation. Building constructively from the third- century theologian, Origen, and the twentieth-century Swiss theologian, Karl Barth, Tom Greggs offers a defence of universalism as rooted in Christian theology, showing this belief does not have to be at the expense of human particularity, freedom, and Christian faith. Examining Barth's doctrine of election and Origen's understanding of apokatastasis, Greggs proposes that a proper understanding of the eternal salvific plan of God in the person of Jesus...
Barth, Origen, and Universal Salvation offers a bold new presentation of universal salvation. Building constructively from the third- century theologi...
This book asks thequestion 'what is religion?' from a theological perspective. In an age in whichreligion has reasserted itself on national and international stages, Theology against Religion argues that weshould take seriously the critique of religion, and engage with that critiquetheologically. The book argues that theologizing the critique of religion wascentral to the theological purposes of Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, andthat Barth and Bonhoeffer should be seen as traveling along the sametrajectory in terms of their theological approaches to religion. It is thistrajectory...
This book asks thequestion 'what is religion?' from a theological perspective. In an age in whichreligion has reasserted itself on national and ...
This book asks thequestion 'what is religion?' from a theological perspective. In an age in whichreligion has reasserted itself on national and international stages, Theology against Religion argues that weshould take seriously the critique of religion, and engage with that critiquetheologically. The book argues that theologizing the critique of religion wascentral to the theological purposes of Karl Barth and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, andthat Barth and Bonhoeffer should be seen as traveling along the sametrajectory in terms of their theological approaches to religion. It is thistrajectory...
This book asks thequestion 'what is religion?' from a theological perspective. In an age in whichreligion has reasserted itself on national and ...
Description: What is the task of theology in a complex religious and secular world? What are theologians called to contribute to society, the churches, and the academy? Can theology be both fully faithful to Christian tradition and Scripture, and fully open to the challenges of the twenty-first century? In this book, an international team of contributors, including some of the best-known names in the field, respond to these questions in programmatic essays that set the direction for future debates about the vocation of theology. David Ford, in whose honor the collection is produced, has been...
Description: What is the task of theology in a complex religious and secular world? What are theologians called to contribute to society, the churches...
