Title: Theological turning points :
Authors: McKim, Donald K.
Date: 1988
Publisher: John Knox Press,
Physical description: vii, 211 pages ;c ; 23 cm
Language: English
LC classification: B
Contents: 1. Trinitarian controversy: Who is God? -- A. BIblical basis -- God is One -- God is Three -- B. Backgrounds to Nicaea -- Apostolic fathers and apologists -- Irenaeus -- Tertullian -- Origen -- Summary -- C. Turning point: The Nicene crisis -- Arius -- Council of Nicaea -- D. Post-Nicene developments -- Athanasius -- The Cappadocians -- Council of Constantinople -- Augustine -- 2. Christological controversy: Who is Jesus Christ? -- A. Biblical basis -- B. Backgrounds to Chalcedon -- Early trends -- Apologists and second-century theologians -- Justin Martyr -- Melito of Sardis and Irenaeus -- Tertullian and Origen -- Arius and Nicaea -- Athanasius -- Apollinarius -- Cappadocian reaction -- Antiochene Christology: Theodore of Mopsuestia -- C. Turning point: The Chalcedonian crisis -- Nestorius -- Cyril of Alexandria -- From Ephesus to Eutyches -- Leo I -- The Chalcedonian formula -- D. Aftermath of Chalcedon -- 3. Ecclesiological controversy: What is the church? -- A. Biblical basis -- B. Early ecclesiology -- Apostolic fathers -- Irenaeus -- Tertullian -- Origen -- C. Turning point: The question of the lapsed -- Cyprian and Novatian -- D. Turning point: The mystical body -- Donatism -- Augustine -- E. After Augustine 4. Anthropological controversy: What is humanity? -- A. Biblical basis -- Old Testament perspectives -- New Testament perspectives -- B. Anthropology East and West -- Early anthropology -- Irenaeus -- Tertullian -- Clement and Origen -- Fourth and fifth centuries -- Athanasius and the East -- Ambrose and the West -- C. Turning point: Pelagius and Augustine -- D. What is humanity? -- 5. Soteriological controversy: How are we saved? -- A. Biblical basis -- B. Salvation in the early church -- Salvation as illumination: Apostolic fathers and apologists -- Salvation as restoration: Irenaeus -- Salvation as satisfaction: Tertullian -- Salvation as victory: Origen -- Salvation as deification: Athanasius and the Eastern theologians -- C. Turning point: Augustine and Pelagius -- Salvation as justification -- Continuing controversies and the Synod of Orange -- D. Turning point: Luther and Trent -- Luther and salvation -- Trent and salvation -- E. Divergences and convergences -- 6. Authority controversy: Where is authority? -- A. Biblical basis -- B. Sources of authority in the early church -- Canon: Old and New Testaments -- Creeds and Councils -- Church leadership -- C. Authority in the Middle Ages -- Growth of the papacy -- Scripture and tradition -- D. Turning point: Calvin and Catholicism -- Calvin and authority -- Catholicism and authority -- E. Later developments -- 7. Sacramental controversy: What are the sacraments? What is baptism? -- A. The nature of the sacraments -- Biblical basis -- Sacramental terminology -- The number of sacraments -- The definition of sacraments -- B. Baptism -- Biblical basis -- Baptism in the early church -- Baptism in the Middle Ages -- Baptism in the Reformation 8. Sacramental controversy: what is the Lord's Supper? -- A. Biblical basis -- B. The Lord's Supper in the Early Church -- C. The Lord's Supper in the Middle Ages -- D. The Lord's Supper in the Reformation -- 9. Eschatological controversy: What is the Kingdom? -- A. Biblical basis -- B. Early eschatology -- The Millennial Kingdom -- The Kingdom in Augustine -- The Kingdom after Augustine -- C. Reformation eschatology -- Luther -- Calvin -- D. Later developments -- 10. Theological turning points today -- A. Who is God today? -- B. Who is Jesus Christ today? -- C. What is the church today? -- D. What is humanity today? -- E. What is salvation today? -- F. Where is authority today? -- G. What are the sacraments today? -- H. What is the Kingdom today? -- I. Turning points today.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Theology, Doctrinal--History.