Elements Of Christian Theology

Ever since the Reformation, Protestant Christians have believed in the sola sciptura principle, upholding the Bible as the utmost and ultimate authority. Yet when Christian doctrine is held up to the magnifying lens, there are clear traces of its true intellectualroots, traces that go back to Augustine, Aquinas and even to Plato and Aristotle. Through a long historical process, human philosophy and tradition have gradually replaced and distorted Christian teachings to the point that what most Christians today know and experience as Christianity is vastly different from what Christ believed and taught over two thousand years ago.In Basic Elements of Christian Theology: Scripture Replacing Tradition, Fernando Canale examines the causes behind this distortion. He explores basic elements of theology including the reality of God, his Trinitarian nature, foreknowledge, predestinationand creation; first presenting and then contrasting the approaches between Christian tradition and the Bible. The reader will detect how Christian tradition has failed, time and again, to integrate all biblical teachings into a coherent theological system. Canale concludes by proposing a new, biblically basedtheological matrix, one that logically integrates all basic elements, and that promises to shape all future interpretation of Scripture and construction of Christian doctrine.

In the spring of 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic disrupted classrooms around the world, teachers scrambled to convert their lectures and presentations into a format more conducive to online and distance learning. For Eugene Rogers, this meant transcribing as closely as possible the spoken lectures that have made his Introduction to Christian Thought course at UNC Greensboro, a course he has taught some forty times, justly famous. The result is this book: an insightful, winsome, and engaging introduction to the history of Christian thought by a teacher at the height of his craft. For Rogers, the history of Christian thought is the story of a language--it's "Christianese," if you will--that participants use to frame their agreements and their disagreements alike. From Anselm to Wyschogrod, Rogers introduces us to the most interesting speakers of Christianese and their importance, enabling us to both listen in on and take part in the living conversation about God's activity in and for our world.