Urban, Linwood,

A short history of Christian thought / [print] Linwood Urban. - Rev. and expandedition. edition. - New York : Oxford University Press, (c)1995. - xviii, 461 pages ; 21 cm.

"The new edition has been enlarged by the addition of chapters on the Sacraments and on the Church and the ministry"--Pref.

Includes bibliographies and index.

I. Scriptural Sources. God Is Lord of All Things. God Made a Covenant with Israel. God Gave Israel the Law. God Holds Israel to Account. God Has a Future for Israel. The Gospel of Thomas. The Picture of Jesus in the Synoptic Gospels. The Gospel of John and the Epistles of Paul. Paul's Problem with the Law. Johannine Literature. The Deity of Christ. The Preexistent Son and Wisdom in the Epistles of Paul -- II. The Mystery of the Trinity. The Beginning of Trinitarian Thinking. Philo of Alexandria. Pre-Nicene Trinities. Irenaeus' Creedal Statement. Monarchianism. Dynamic Monarchianism. Modalistic Monarchianism. The Unity of God. Multiplicity in God. Arianism. The Nicene Reaction to Arianism. Augustine and the Coequal Trinity. The Social Trinity. Karl Rahner's Distinctions between the Persons -- III. The Mystery of the Incarnation. Early Heresies. Gnosticism. The Orthodox Reply. Word-Flesh and Word-Man Christologies. Apollinarianism. Nestorianism. Monophysitism.



9780195093476 9780195093483

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Theology, Doctrinal--History.

Christianity Theology History

BT21 BT21.U72.S567 1995