Incarnation and Resurrection: Toward a Contemporary Understanding - Softcover

Molnar, Paul D.

 
9780802809988: Incarnation and Resurrection: Toward a Contemporary Understanding
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0802809987 ISBN 13: 9780802809988
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2007

Synopsis

For too long contemporary theology has downplayed the importance of holding together the incarnation and the resurrection when thinking theologically. Paul Molnar here surveys the place of these key doctrines in the thought of several influential theologians: Karl Barth, Karl Rahner, Thomas F. Torrance, John Macquarrie, Gordon Kaufman, Sallie McFague, Roger Haight, John Hick, and Wolfhart Pannenberg.

Molnar demonstrates that whenever the starting point for interpreting the resurrection is not Jesus himself, the incarnate Son of the Father, then Christology and Soteriology are undermined because they are not properly rooted in a plausible doctrine of the Trinity. Fair, comprehensive, and balanced, Molnar's analysis, following Torrance and Barth, highlights the details of contemporary theology of the resurrection linked to the incarnation and maintains the necessity of the incarnation in its intrinsic unity with the resurrection as the beginning, rather than the end, of Christology.

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About the Author

Paul D. Molnar is professor of systematic theology at St.John's University, Queens, New York. His previous worksinclude Karl Barth and the Theology of the Lord'sSupper and Divine Freedom and the Doctrine of theImmanent Trinity."

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Publisher
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Publication date
2007
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0802809987
ISBN 13 
9780802809988
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
432