- An ECPA 2003 Gold Medallion Finalist

The story of Christian theology has often been divisive and disjointed. Providing this companion volume to his earlier work The Story of Christian Theology, Roger E.Olson thematically traces the contours of Christian belief down through the ages, revealing a pattern of both unity and diversity. He finds a consensus of teaching that is both unitive and able to incorporate a faithful diversity when not forced intothe molds of false either-or alternatives. The mosaic that emerges from Olson's work displays a mediating evangelical theology that is nonspeculative and irenic in spirit and tone. Specifically written with the nonspecialist in mind, Olson has masterfully sketched out the contours of Christian faith with simplicity while avoiding oversimplification.



Roger E. Olson (PhD, Rice University) is professor of theology at George W. Truett Theological Seminary of Baylor University in Waco, Texas. He is the author of The Story of Christian Theology: Twenty Centuries of Tradition Reform, The Mosaicof Christian Belief: Twenty Centuries of Unity Diversity and Arminian Theology: Myths and Realities (all InterVarsity Press).



Preface

Introduction: The Need for a "Both-And" Theology

1. Christian Belief: Unity and Diversity

2. Sources and Norms of Christian Belief: One and Many

3. Divine Revelation: Universal and Particular

4. Christian Scripture: Divine Word and Human Words

5. God: Great and Good

6. God: Three and One

7. Creation: Good and Fallen

8. Providence: Limited and Detailed

9. Humanity:Essentially Good and Existentially Estranged

10. Jesus Christ: God and Man

11. Salvation: Objective and Subjective

12. Salvation: Gift and Task

13. The Church: Visible and Invisible

14. Life Beyond Death: Continuity and Discontinuity

15. The Kingdom of God: Already and Not Yet

Indexes