How should one approach the task of theology? The question of methodology is increasingly one of interest among theologians, who recognize that the very manner in which we approach theology informs both the questions we ask and the conclusions we reach.
This volume in IVP's Spectrum Multiview series brings together five evangelical theologians with distinctly different approaches to the theological task. After presenting the approaches—which include appeals to Scripture, context, missions, interdisciplinary studies, and dogmatics—each contributor responds to the other views.
Emerging from this theological conversation is an awareness of our methodological commitments and the benefits that each approach can bring to the theological task.
Contributors:
– Sung Wook Chung
– John R. Franke
– Telford C. Work
– Victor Ifeanyi Ezigbo
– Paul Louis Metzger Spectrum Multiview Books offer a range of viewpoints on contested topics within Christianity, giving contributors the opportunity to present their position and also respond to others in this dynamic publishing format.
قائمة المحتويات
Method in Systematic Theology: An Introduction—Stanley E. Porter and Steven M. Studebaker
Codifying God’s Word: Bible Doctrines/Conservative Theology—Sung Wook Chung
Living God’s Love: Missional Theology—John R. Franke
Framers and Painters: Interdisciplinary Theology—Telford C. Work
God in Human Context: Reflection on Theology’s Contextuality and Contextual Theology—Victor Ifeanyi Ezigbo
Confessing the Faith: A Trinitarian Method in Dogmatic Theology—Paul Louis Metzger
Response to Other Contributors—Sung Wook Chung
Response to Other Contributors—John R. Franke
Response to Other Contributors—Telford C. Work
Response to Other Contributors—Victor Ifeanyi Ezigbo
Response to Other Contributors—Paul Louis Metzger
What Have We Learned Regarding Theological Method, and Where Do We Go from Here? Tentative Conclusions—Stanley E. Porter and Steven M. Studebaker
Contributors
عن المؤلف
Steven M. Studebaker (Ph D, Marquette University) is the Howard and Shirley Bentall Chair in Evangelical Thought and associate professor of systematic and historical theology at Mc Master Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of A Pentecostal Political Theology for American Renewal: Spirit of the Kingdoms, Citizens of the Cities, and From Pentecost to the Triune God: A Pentecostal Trinitarian Theology, as well as several other books on Jonathan Edwards's trinitarian theology and Pentecostal theology.