A Stranger in the House of God

A Stranger in the House of God
Author: John Koessler
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2009-08-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0310864216

Growing up the son of agnostics, John Koessler saw a Catholic church on one end of the street and a Baptist on the other. In the no-man’s land between the two, this curious outside wondered about the God they worshipped—and began a lifelong search to comprehend the grace and mystery of God. A Stranger in the House of God addresses fundamental questions and struggles faced by spiritual seekers and mature believers. Like a contemporary Pilgrim’s Progress, it traces the author’s journey and explores his experiences with both charismatic and evangelical Christianity. It also describes his transformation from religious outsider to ordained pastor. John Koessler provides a poignant and often humorous window into the interior of the soul as he describes his journey from doubt and struggle with the church to personal faith

A Study in Christology

A Study in Christology
Author: Herbert Relton
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2002-05-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1579109667

Christology and Ethics

Christology and Ethics
Author: F. LeRon Shults
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2010-06-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0802845096

This book brings together leading theologians and ethicists to explore the neglected relationship between Christology and ethics. The contributors to this volume work to overcome the tendency toward disciplinary xenophobia, considering such questions as What is the relation between faithful teaching about the reality of Christ and teaching faithfulness to the way of Christ? and How is christological doctrine related to theological judgments about normative human agency? With renewed attention and creative reformulation, they argue, we can discover fresh ways of tending to these perennial questions.

Christology: A Guide for the Perplexed

Christology: A Guide for the Perplexed
Author: Alan J. Spence
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2015-07-30
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567666131

Today Christology is of concern to both New Testament scholars and theologians alike and continues to provoke debate within the Church. Christology: A Guide for the Perplexed examines the key debates and defining moments in the early Church and the Reformation. After a brief introduction providing a basic definition of Christology, this historical background provides an essential foundation on which to outline later developments in Christology. Alan Spence then considers the Quest for the Historical Jesus, the work of the major theologians in this area including Barth and Schleiermacher, and from the present day, N.T. Wright and Pannenberg, and explores the contemporary arguments within the field of Christology.

Jesus and Personality Theory

Jesus and Personality Theory
Author: James R. Beck
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 284
Release: 1999-01-22
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780830819256

James Beck looks at prominent themes in the teaching and ministry of Jesus and how they relate to the five major traits of human personality.

An Augustinian Christology

An Augustinian Christology
Author: Joseph Walker-Lenow
Publisher:
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2023-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1009344439

In An Augustinian Christology: Completing Christ, Joseph Walker-Lenow advances a striking christological thesis: Jesus Christ, true God and true human, only becomes who he is through his relations to the world around him. To understand both his person and work, it is necessary to see him as receptive to and determined by the people he meets, the environments he inhabits, even those people who come to worship him. Christ and the redemption he brings cannot be understood apart from these factors, for it is through the existence and agency of the created world that he redeems. To pursue these claims, Walker-Lenow draws on an underappreciated resource in the history of Christian thought: St. Augustine of Hippo's theology of the 'whole Christ.' Presenting Augustine's christology across the full range of his writings, Joseph Walker-Lenow recovers a christocentric Augustine with the potential to transform our understandings of the Church and its mission in our world.