Contents
List of contributors page xi Acknowledgments and note on references xiv A note on the cover image xvi 1 Defining and locating evangelicalism 1 Part i Evangelicals and Christian doctrine 15 2 The triune God of the gospel 17 3 Scripture and hermeneutics 35 5 The human person in the Christian story 65 6 Justification and atonement 79 8 Conversion and sanctification 109 9 The church in evangelical theology and practice 125 Part ii The contexts of evangelical theology 143 10 Evangelical theology and...
Jesus Christ
Along with the Scripture principle, the axiom of solus Christus has been a hallmark of theologies in the Reformation tradition. The first indicates the priority of divine revelation over tradition, speculation, or immediate experience the second acknowledges the sovereignty of divine grace in incarnation and redemption over against apparently synergistic conceptions of its mediation through church, sacrament, or the moral acts of Christian existence. The perfection of Christ - the integrity and...
scriptures inspiration
Evangelicals take seriously the Bible's own testimony to its nature.6 Besides the view of Jesus himself, the most central passage is 2 Timothy 3 16-17 All scripture is inspired by God and is useful for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, so that everyone who belongs to God may be proficient, equipped for every good work'' NRSV . Biblical inspiration is not a matter of romantic or ecstatic genius, a genus of the species enjoyed by artists. Rather, the term...
Contributors
J. Kameron Carter is Assistant Professor of Theology and Black Church Studies, Duke University Divinity School, Durham, North Carolina. His forthcoming book is entitled Race A Theological Account. Simon Chan is Ernest Lau Professor of Systematic Theology, Trinity Theological College, Singapore. His books include Pentecostal Theology and the Christian Spiritual Tradition 2000 . Miyon Chung is Lecturer in Systematic Theology, Torch Trinity Graduate School of Theology, Seoul, Korea. She is...