Thinking Theologically / Guy, Fritz / (PB/1999-1999/B+/USED)

*Condition Note: This book is in very good and clean condition; however, has bottom some pages edges damaged. It is lightly marked.*

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"Religious commitment is a motivation, not a substitute, for careful thinking."
So writes Fritz Guy in Thinking Theologically: Adventist Christianity and the Interpretation of Faith, a work synthesizing a long career of careful "theological thinking." An influential thought leader among Seventh-day Adventists, Guy offers his long awaited perspective on how North American Adventists ought to go about the business of "doing theology." The book is addressed to theological students, pastors, and serious general readers who are interested in what theological thinking is, why it is important, who needs to be doing it, and how it should be done.

"So our theological thinking is inevitably different from that of the Apostle Paul or Martin Luther or James White, and this difference is no cause for regret or embarrassment. For if our theology is to address our own world effectively and communicate the message of scripture persuasively, it must be a theology that has this world as one of its ingredients; it must take seriously the particular experience, insights, questions, concerns, and needs of this world. Otherwise the world will not take seriously either our faith or our theology."

Table of Contents

Preface

Explaining the activity
What theological thinking actually is
Basic vocabulary
Basic characteristics
More vocabulary

Exploring the task
Why everyone should think theologically
An essential task
An inclusive task
A parable

How theological thinking should begin
Audiences and motivations
Moral principles
Methodological principles


Why theological thinking is open ended
Limitations and change
Continuing discovery
Kinds of development

How to think with intellectual integrity
Criteria
Application
Theological fallacies

Examining the ingredients
How scripture should function
Priority over subsequent theological tradition
Ellen White as an agent of scripture
Scripture as a whole
Theological Christocentricity
Existential perspective

What else is involved
Relation to scripture
Varieties of ingredients

How culture makes a difference
Secularity and secularism
Underlying intuitions
Theological implications

Envisioning the work
What logical presuppositions need to be identified
Meaning and validity
Belief and trust
Evidence and demonstration

What forms theological thinking can take
Traditional systematic form
Bibliographical excursus: twentieth-century systematic theology
Other ways of organizing theology
Components and dangers

Why tripolar thinking is essential
Christian gospel
Cultural context
Adventist heritage
The challenge of Tripolarity

Conclusion

Index

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