I Believe in the Holy Spirit is a major treatise on the topic by one of the great theologians of the century. Yves Congar's book is one of the few comprehensive treatments of the Church's understanding of the Spirit and the working of the Spirit in the life of the Church by a Roman Catholic theologian.
Maurice Wiles shows that it doesn't require a vast tome to present a penetrating challenge to traditional doctrinal positions . . . The great merit of this important study is that it both highlights the need for massive rethinking of the self-understanding of the Christian faith and challenges those who engage in such rethinking to pay strict attention to what the evidence demands. Doctrine don…
This collection of twenty-one essays concerning the New Testament interpretation of the person and work of Jesus Christ addresses all the main questions surrounding the earliest thinking about Jesus of Nazareth, including canon, the use of the Old Testament, miracles, preexistence, sacrifice, and the end of the age. In the tradition of George Caird's influential biblical studies, each contribut…
Through the advice of many scholars of Christian origins the selections here include texts that show students how Christianity developed and was lived in Asia, Africa, and the Mediterranean. These texts show Christian life beyond the confines of Byzantine and Western Christendom as Christians enter the Mongol and Chinese courts, struggle to cope with Islam, and continue to live in places such a…