Invocation and Assent: The Making and the Remaking of Trinitarian Theology - Softcover

Vickers, Jason E.

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9780802862693: Invocation and Assent: The Making and the Remaking of Trinitarian Theology
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ISBN 10: 0802862691 ISBN 13: 9780802862693
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2008

Synopsis

In the seventeenth century the adoption of a new rule of faith forever changed the way many English-speaking Protestants perceive the doctrine of the Trinity. Instead of the proper personal name by which Christians come to know and love their God, English-speaking Christians increasingly began to think of the Trinity as a network of propositions in need of evaluation for rationality and intelligibility. Suddenly, it was no longer clear that the Trinity mattered for salvation. Invocation and Assent by Jason Vickers charts the effects of this crucial shift in the identity and function of the rule of faith. Examining this turning point in seventeenth-century theological thought, Vickers illuminates the origins of indifference to the Trinity found in many quarters of Christianity today.

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About the Author

Jason E. Vickers holds the Wesley Endowed Chair of Christian Theology at Baylor University’s Truett Seminary. His publications include A Wesleyan Theology of the Eucharist: The Presence of God for Christian Life and Ministry, Methodist Christology: From the Wesleys to the Twentieth Century, and Love Divine: A Wesleyan Systematic Theology.

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Publisher
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0802862691
ISBN 13 
9780802862693
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
235
Rating
  • 4.27 out of 5 stars
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