Atonement, Christology and the Trinity : making sense of Christian doctrine /

Brümmer, Vincent.

Atonement, Christology and the Trinity : making sense of Christian doctrine / Vincent Brümmer. - Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2005. - vii, 125 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The intelligibility of Christian doctrine -- Mysteries and puzzles -- The limits of metaphorical thinking -- The puzzles of metaphorical thinking -- Theology and the puzzles of doctrine -- Fellowship with God : the matrix of faith -- Ultimate happiness and fellowship with God -- Rich and famous -- Human love -- Divine love -- Unhappiness as estrangement from God -- Estrangement and reconciliation -- Estrangement -- Reconciliation -- The price of reconciliation -- Divine forgiveness -- Change of heart -- The matrix of faith -- Christian doctrine : interpreting the matrix -- The doctrine of atonement -- A point of departure -- Patristic ideas on atonement -- The universal and the particular -- Penal substitution -- Atonement as reconciliation -- The doctrine of Christology -- Atonement and Christology -- Natures or functions? -- Reconciliation and the divinity of Christ -- Reconciliation and the humanity of Christ -- The doctrine of the Trinity -- Atonement and the Trinity -- Social trinitarianism -- Latin trinitarianism -- Dialogue and the matrix of faith -- The children of Abraham -- Dialogue and Christian doctrine -- Exclusivism.

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Jesus Christ--Person and offices.


Atonement.
Trinity.

BT 265.3 / .B78 2005

230 / B832a