Faith Seeking Understanding: An Introduction to Christian TheologyDaniel Migliore's Faith Seeking Understanding has been a standard introduction to Christian theology for more than a decade. The book's presentation of traditional doctrine in freshly contemporary ways, its concern to hear and critically engage new voices in theology, and its creative and accessible style have kept it one of the most stimulating, balanced, and readable guides to theology available. This second edition of Faith Seeking Understanding features improvements from cover to cover. Besides updating and expanding the entire text of the book, Migliore has added two completely new chapters. The first, "Confessing Jesus Christ in Context," explores the unique contributions to Christian theology made by recent theologians working in the African American, Asian American, Latin American, Hispanic, feminist, womanist, and mujerista traditions. The second new chapter, "The Finality of Jesus Christ and Religious Pluralism," addresses the growing interest in the relationship of Christianity to other religions and their adherents. Migliore's three delightful theological dialogues are followed by a new appendix, an extensive glossary of theological terms, making the book even more useful to students seeking to understand the history, themes, and challenges of Christian belief. |
Contents
The Task of Theology | 1 |
Theology as Faith Seeking Understanding | 2 |
The Questionableness of Theology | 7 |
The Questions of Theology | 10 |
Methods of Asking Theological Questions | 16 |
The Meaning of Revelation | 20 |
God Hidden and Revealed | 22 |
Revelation as Objective and Subjective | 26 |
Dimensions of the Resurrection of Christ | 191 |
Confessing Jesus Christ in Context | 197 |
The Particularity and Universality of the Gospel | 198 |
Latin American Christology | 200 |
African American Christology | 204 |
Feminist Womanist and Mujerista Christologies | 209 |
Hispanic Christology | 212 |
Asian American Christology | 216 |
General and Special Revelation | 29 |
Models of Revelation | 33 |
Revelation as Gods SelfDisclosure Narrated in Scripture | 35 |
Revelation Scripture and Church | 39 |
The Authority of Scripture | 44 |
The Problem of Authority in Modern Culture | 45 |
Inadequate Approaches to the Authority of Scripture | 47 |
by the Power of the Spirit to the Living God Revealed in Jesus Christ | 50 |
Principles of the Interpretation of Scripture | 53 |
The Triune God | 64 |
The Biblical Roots of the Doctrine of the Trinity | 68 |
Classical Trinitarian Doctrine | 70 |
Distortions in the Doctrine of God | 73 |
Restatement of the Meaning of the Doctrine of the Trinity | 74 |
The Attributes of God | 82 |
The Electing Grace of God | 87 |
The Good Creation | 92 |
Rereading the Scriptural Witness on Creation | 97 |
Trinity Creation and Ecology | 107 |
Models of Creation | 110 |
The Doctrine of Creation and Modern Science | 113 |
The Providence of God and the Mystery of Evil | 117 |
Providence and Evil in the Theological Tradition | 121 |
Rethinking Providence and Evil | 125 |
Recent Theodicies | 128 |
Humanity as Creature Sinner and New Being in Christ | 139 |
Created Humanity | 142 |
Fallen Humanity | 149 |
The Meaning of Original Sin and of Death as Enemy | 154 |
New Humanity in Christ | 160 |
The Person and Work of Jesus Christ | 163 |
Principles of Christology | 167 |
Patristic Christology | 169 |
Rethinking Classical Affirmations of the Person of Christ | 174 |
Rethinking Classical Interpretations of the Work of Christ | 182 |
Violence and the Cross | 187 |
The Local and the Global in Christology | 220 |
The Holy Spirit and the Christian Life | 223 |
Neglect and Recovery of the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit | 224 |
A Sketch of a Theology of the Holy Spirit | 226 |
Justification | 235 |
Sanctification | 239 |
The New Community | 248 |
The Problem of the Church | 249 |
New Testament Images of the Church | 251 |
Critique of Current Models of the Church | 254 |
The Church and the Call to Communion | 262 |
The Church and the Call to Mission | 265 |
Classical Marks of the Church | 269 |
Proclamation Sacraments and Ministry | 274 |
What Are Sacraments? | 279 |
The Meaning of Baptism | 282 |
The Meaning of the Lords Supper | 288 |
Baptism the Lords Supper and Ethics | 293 |
The Meaning of an Ordained Ministry | 295 |
The Finality of Jesus Christ and Religious Pluralism | 301 |
Types of Christian Theologies of the Religions | 306 |
Toward a Trinitarian Theology of the Religions | 316 |
Salvation in Other Religions? | 319 |
Christians and Jews | 323 |
Christian Hope | 330 |
The Crisis of Hope in an Age of Terrorism | 331 |
Principles for Interpreting Christian Hope | 337 |
Classical Symbols of Christian Hope | 342 |
Eschatology and Ethics | 348 |
Natural Theology A Dialogue | 354 |
The Resurrection A Dialogue | 370 |
Political Theology A Dialogue | 384 |
A Glossary of Theological Terms | 402 |
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