Is Christian belief tenable today? Is it possible to be a creedal Christian?
Paul R. Hinlicky is Tise Professor of Lutheran Studies at Roanoke College, Salem, Virginia. His other books include Paths Not Taken: Fates of Theology from Luther through Leibniz.
Foreword
p. xi
Preface
p. xv
Abbreviations
p. xxv
Luther's Creedal Theology
The Problem of Christian Belief in Euro-America Today
p. 3
A Question Posed
p. 3
Critical Dogmatics as the Task of Interpretation
p. 7
An Alternative: James's Experiential Theology
p. 17
Saints amid Boas and Crocodiles
p. 21
Luther Fails to Map
p. 25
ôOne of the Trinity Sufferedö: Luther's Neo-Chalcedonian Christology
p. 31
Epistemology at the Turn of the Ages
p. 32
ôThis Man Created the Worldö
p. 46
ôOne of the Trinity Sufferedö
p. 51
The Erasure of the Communion of Attributes in Modern Christology
p. 60
God Surpassing God by ôChrist Made to Be Sinö
p. 66
Beyond the Wrath of God?
p. 66
Propitiation, Not Expiation
p. 73
What Anselm Really Taught
p. 83
Luther's Radicalism
p. 91
But Is It Real?
p. 96
Trinitarian Advent: Resituating the Dialectic of Law and Gospel
p. 105
The Faith of Jesus
p. 106
The ôNecessityö of the Cross
p. 118
Trinitarian Advent
p. 122
Teaching the Trinity
p. 130
Explorations in Theological Anthropology
Somatic Self, Ecstatic Self: Luther on Theonomy
p. 139
Somatic, Ecstatic, and Centered Selves
p. 141
Lutherans against Luther on the Power of the Will
p. 149
Reading De servo arbitrio as Apocalyptic Theology
p. 153
Zwingli's Alternative Case for the Decentered Self
p. 162
New Agency in Christ
p. 169
Appendix to Chapter 5: A Roman Catholic Objection: Does Luther's Rapture Rob Humans of the Freedom of Faith?
p. 175
The Redemption of the Body: Luther on Marriage
p. 179
The Renewed Image of God
p. 179
Marriage as Holy Estate
p. 191
Luther's Biblical Theology of Marriage
p. 198
Dirty Sex? The Problem of Concupiscence
p. 201
The Christological Reading of Genesis 1-3
p. 209
Community in Suffering as in Joy
p. 210
Same-Sex Unions and Other Hard Questions
p. 214
Some Objections regarding Justification, the Church, and Political Theology
ôNew, Old, and Different Perspectivesö on Paul (Augustine and Luther)
p. 221
The Perils of Repristinationism
p. 221
Dunn's Claim for a New Perspective on Paul
p. 225
Sanders's Misidentified Insight
p. 230
Stendahl's Misplaced Conscience
p. 233
Käsemann's Critique of Salvation History
p. 236
Beyond the Old and New Perspectives
p. 242
The Law Battling the Law in Order to Liberate Us All
p. 249
Church in Service of the New Creation
p. 254
Communio: Luther's Forgotten Ecclesiology
p. 258
A Catholic Luther?
p. 259
Heresiarch as Teacher of the Church?
p. 262
The Achievement of the Second Vatican Council
p. 268
Ratzinger's Objection
p. 275
The Papal Confutation's Evasion
p. 281
The Catholic Luther and Communio Ecclesiology
p. 287
Communio Ecclesiology
p. 292
A Counter-Challenge
p. 298
Passion and Action in Christ: Political Theology between the Times
p. 301
A Man in Contradiction?
p. 301
Marxism as a Theological Problem
p. 308
Homo faber
p. 314
Marxism as a Christian Heresy
p. 323
Vocation in Battle-Stations of the New Creation
p. 331
Luther's Admonition to Peace
p. 337
Niebuhr's Rediscovery of Economic Power
p. 343
The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Public Ministry of Redemptive Love
p. 348
Who Believes?
p. 354
By Way of Conclusion: What Luther Meant by theologia crucis
p. 358
What Luther Meant
p. 358
Some Feminist Concerns
p. 363
What's Wrong with Glory?
p. 367
Three Conclusions
p. 373
Appendix: The Problem of Demonization in Luther's Apocalyptic Theology
p. 379
Works Cited
p. 386
Index of Names and Selected Topics
p. 401
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