The Christian Faith: A Creedal Account
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Overview
This reader-friendly primer offers a concise yet thorough overview of the Christian faith. Hans Schwarz, one of the major Lutheran theologians of the last half-century, covers the Christian faith from creation to the final fulfillment of life. He gives his account of the major points of Christian doctrine, always moving from the biblical text to the unfolding of the faith through the centuries to contemporary significance. This brief systematic theology will appeal to professors, students, pastors, and educated lay readers who want a quick but profound and biblically grounded overview of the Christian faith.
For this volume and more, check out the Baker Academic Theological Studies Update III (5 vols.).
Key Features
- Provides a primer of systematic theology
- Offers a Lutheran perspective on the history of the Christian faith
- Relates modern science to classic protestant orthodoxy
Contents
- Theology
- Revelation
- Scripture
- God
- Creation
- Humanity
- Sin
- Jesus of Nazareth
- Jesus as the Christ
- The Holy Spirit
- The Church
- The Means of Grace
- The Christian Hope
Praise for the Print Edition
Without any reduction of the scholarly acumen of his earlier writings, Hans Schwarz sets out a clear and accessible account of the Christian faith that will surely be of benefit to a wide audience. Drawing especially from the riches of his own Lutheran tradition, Schwarz penetrates to the heart of the gospel and offers an engaging account of what Christian faith is all about. I commend it highly.
—Murray Rae, professor, University of Otago, New Zealand
With skills honed by decades of teaching and writing theology, Hans Schwarz combines admirable clarity with deep learning in this fine summary of Christian doctrine. Deeply evangelical and always in conversation with Luther, Schwarz is careful to include relevant reflections on Scripture, science, and philosophy in each chapter.
—Alan G. Padgett, professor of systematic theology and coordinator for Methodist studies, Luther Seminary
The book is reflective of Schwarz’s rich global experience and his wide-ranging theological interests. It will serve as a helpful primer for beginning students of theology and will be a welcome companion for pastors and missionaries seeking to articulate the trinitarian faith with clarity in the midst of the spiritual and intellectual challenges of the twenty-first century.
—John T. Pless, assistant professor of pastoral ministry and missions, Concordia Theological Seminary
About Hans Schwarz
Hans Schwarz is one of the major Lutheran theologians of the last half-century and the author or editor of more than fifty books, including a critically acclaimed series of texts in systematic theology. He is the professor of systematic theology and contemporary theological issues at the University of Regensburg and previously taught at Trinity Lutheran Seminary in Ohio. He is ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche in Bayern. He is the author of The Human Being: A Theological Anthropology.
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Glenn Crouch
19/04/2016
I feel I must have missed something. As a Lutheran, I expect a "reader-friendly primer" to the Christian Faith from a noted Lutheran Theologian to be something far different. Admittedly I haven't read other works from this author - but in no way would I say this was "reader-friendly". Given that this is an approx 200 page Systemic Theology (quite a brief one given others I have read), the Author spends an awful lot of time discussing Philosophers (especially those of the last few centuries). He also just presents a Historical Critical approach as the only approach - and besides seeming to be many decades behind in some of that material - to boldly claim this is "the Christian Faith" is surely presumptuous to say the least. I found that this was more like reading a 19th Century German theological treatise - then a recently published summary of the Christian Faith.