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Page Count: 365
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
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Description : The Reformed churches of the sixteenth century
affirmed the need to be semper reformanda—
always reforming.
But in the ensuing centuries, some have taken this conviction
as a mandate to abandon the departure from received orthodoxy, while others have
progressed toward a rigid confessionalism that cements the Reformation itself as
a final codification of truth.
Between these extremes is the ongoing
need of the church to be always reforming—subjecting its beliefs and practices
to the renewed scrutiny of Holy Scripture and restating the truth of Scriptures
in ways that faithfully communicate the gospel, advance the mission of the
church and empower the people of God.
This collection of essays by
senior theologians and edited by A. T. B. McGowan practices what it preaches,
mining the whole terrain of systematic theology to refresh, renew and yes, even
reform the church for its next season.
Table of Contents
Contributors
Preface (John Frame)
Introduction
1 The
Trinity: Where Do We Go from Here?
Gerald Bray
2
Observations on the Future of System
Stephen
Williams
3 Classical Christology’s Future in Systematic
Theology
Robert L. Reymond
4 On the Very Idea of a
Theological System: An Essay in Aid
of Triangulating
Scripture, Church and World
Kevin J. Vanhoozer
5 The
Atonement as Penal Substitution
A. T. B. McGowan
6
The Relationship between Biblical Theology and Systematic
Theology
Richard C. Gamble
7 Old Covenant, New
Covenant
Henri Blocher
8 Union with Christ: Some
Biblical and Theological
Reflections
Richard B.
Gaffin, Jr
9 Justification: The Ecumenical, Biblical and
Theological Dimensions of Current Debates
Cornelis P.
Venema
10 The Doctrine of the Church in the Twenty-First
Century
Derek W. H. Thomas
Index of Names
Index of
Biblical References