The Story of Christian Theology: Twenty Centuries of Tradition Reform Christianity Today Book of the Year Award History is made up of stories--narratives that recount the events, movements, ideas and lives that have shaped religions and nations. Theologian Roger Olson believes that the history of Christian theology should be told as such a story, one replete with thick plots, exciting twists, interesting people and fascinating ideas. In this panoramic work of historical theology Olson vividly recounts the deeds and words of the cultists and apostolic fathers of the second century, the clash between the theological schools of Alexandria and Antioch, the epochal division between East and West, the revolutionary advent of the Reformation and much more, right on up to the dazzling, sometimes dismaying fallout that has continued to shake Christians through the twentieth century. Through it all Olson detects and traces a common thread: a concern for salvation--God's redemptive activity in forgiving and transforming sinful human beings. Evenhanded, refreshingly readable, impressive in its breadth and depth, The Story of Christian Theology is poised to become a standard historical theology text. |
Contents
Preface | 11 |
Conflicting Christian Visions | 25 |
9 | 54 |
11 | 61 |
4 | 68 |
PART II | 79 |
84 | 113 |
8 | 120 |
Scholastics Revive | 311 |
Thomas Aquinas Summarizes Christian Truth | 331 |
Nominalists Reformers Humanists Challenge | 348 |
The Western | 369 |
Luther Rediscovers the Gospel Divides the Church | 375 |
Zwingli Calvin Organize Protestant Thought | 397 |
Anabaptists Go Back to the Roots of Christianity | 414 |
Rome Canterbury Go Separate but Parallel Ways | 429 |
PART III | 137 |
10 | 151 |
11 | 161 |
12 | 169 |
14 | 211 |
15 | 222 |
16 | 236 |
PART V | 251 |
The Western Church Becomes Roman Catholic | 278 |
The Eastern Church Becomes Eastern Orthodox | 290 |
The Great Schism Creates Two Traditions Out of One | 304 |
Protestants | 451 |
Pietists Seek to Renew Lutheran Theology | 473 |
Puritans Methodists Struggle to Revive | 493 |
Deists Try to Transform Protestant Theology | 518 |
Liberals | 533 |
Conservative Theology Hardens Traditional Categories | 554 |
NeoOrthodoxy Transcends the Divide | 570 |
Contemporary Theology Struggles with Diversity | 590 |
The Unfinished Story Its Future | 610 |
643 | |
Other editions - View all
The Story of Christian Theology: Twenty Centuries of Tradition and Reform Roger E. Olson Limited preview - 2009 |
The Story of Christian Theology: Twenty Centuries of Tradition & Reform Roger E. Olson No preview available - 1999 |
The Story of Christian Theology: Twenty Centuries of Tradition Reform Roger E. Olson No preview available - 1999 |