Grounded in Heaven: Recentering Christian Hope and Life on God - Softcover

Allen, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802874533 ISBN 13: 9780802874535

Publisher: Eerdmans, 2018

Synopsis

Eschatology and ethics are joined at the hip, says Michael Allen, and both need theocentric reorientation. In Grounded in Heaven Allen retrieves the traditional concept of the beatific vision and seeks to bring Christ back into the heart of our theology and our lives on earth.

Responding to the earthly-mindedness of much recent theology, Allen places his focus on God and the heavenly future while also appreciating ways in which the Reformed tradition provides a unique angle on broadly catholic concerns. Reaching back to classical ethics as well as its reformation by Calvin and other Reformed theologians, Grounded in Heaven offers a distinctly Protestant account of the ascetical calling to be heavenly-minded and to deny one’s self.

About this title

About the Author

 

Michael Allen is the John Dyer Trimble Professor of Systematic Theology and academic dean at Reformed Theological Seminary in Orlando, Florida. He is the author of numerous books, including Grounded in Heaven, and the coeditor, with Scott R. Swain, of The Oxford Handbook of Reformed Theology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Eerdmans
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802874533
• ISBN 13: 9780802874535
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192