By Keith Ward
ISBN-10: 0198263937
ISBN-13: 9780198263937
This booklet is the second one a part of a massive venture of comparative theology all started with faith and Revelation (Clarendon Press, 1994), which seems to be at significant options of religion in all 4 of the most scriptural religions of the area. In faith and construction, the writer explores the assumption of a writer God within the paintings of 20th century writers from Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, and Christianity. He develops a good inspiration of God which stresses God's dynamic and responsive relation to the temporal constitution of the universe, and the significance of that constitution to the self-expression of the divine being. Professor Ward is going directly to current a Trinitarian doctrine of production, drawing notion from a much broader set of theistic traditions and up to date discussions in physics within the realm of cosmology.
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This sounds as though God, at the foundation of the universe, knew that God would call specific individuals to be God's sons and daughters. So God must have known these specific individuals would exist, and chose them to become sons of God. The famous passage in Romans says, 'Those whom he foreknew 36 Isa. 61: 57. 37 Rom. 11: 26. < previous page page_47 next page > page_48 < previous page page_48 next page > Page 48 he predestined . . ' Again, God knows who will exist, and God chooses, from the beginning of time, to glorify them.
47 The problem of why God should only elect some to salvation is resolved by declaring unequivocally that God elects all, without exception, to salvation. Of course, this leaves the slightly different problem that not all seem to accept salvation, and that many biblical passages speak of the possibility of hell. Barth's response is once again to root everything in the particular life of Jesus Christ as the whole revealed truth about God. Christ does declare divine condemnation on sin; but he also takes divine judgement upon himself on the cross, and thereby annuls it.
4 Cf. Tertullian, Against Praxeas, 27, in M. ), Corpus Christianorum, Series Latina (Turnhout and Paris: Brepols, 1953- ), i. 1198. 5 1 Thess. 4: 2. 6 1 Thess. 5: 10. 7 1 Thess. 1: 10. 8 1 Thess. 4: 17. < previous page page_38 next page > page_39 < previous page page_39 next page > Page 39 Jesus' role in human history is represented as being unique and his authority is taken to be absolute. His teachings reveal the truth about God. His death is a voluntary sacrifice which succeeds in freeing humans from the rule of evil.
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