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Accountability to God

By: Andrew B. Torrance

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The word 'accountability' is often used without much thought being given to what precisely it means. It is especially common in Christian circles, where there is frequent talk about being accountable to God, yet, still, without a clear grasp of this word. Accountability to God proposes, develops, and analyses two concepts of accountability as both a condition and a virtue. It also engineers these concepts to make them particularly apt for thinking about (1) accountability to God and (2) other relationships of accountability that exist under God. In its first part, the book builds a theological and general case for its particular views of accountability. In its second, it engages in the constructive work of developing a theology of accountability in relation to the doctrines of the Trinity, participation in Christ, the Fall, the fear of God, reconciliation, baptism, repentance, faith, and conversion. In developing this theology, Torrance interacts with a number of major theologians, such as the Apostle Paul, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Karl Barth. He also extensively engages with contemporary work in analytic philosophy, systematic theology (including analytic theology), biblical studies, and psychology. By bringing a diverse range of scholarship into discussion, Accountability to God is the first book to focus specifically on what it means to be accountable to God. It thereby proposes a more positive, constructive, and theologically apt way to think about accountability.

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Oxford University Press

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0198873956

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Beyond Immanence

The Theological Vision of Kierkegaard and Barth

By: Alan J. Torrance,Andrew B. Torrance

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Beyond Immanence

The Theological Vision of Kierkegaard and Barth

By: Alan J. Torrance,Andrew B. Torrance

Critical insights into Kierkegaard’s influence on Barth’s theology. Karl Barth was often critical of Søren Kierkegaard’s ideas as he understood them. But close reading of the two corpora reveals that Barth owes a lot to the melancholy Dane. Both conceive of God as infinitely qualitatively different from humans, and both emphasize the shocking nearness of God in the incarnation. As public intellectuals, they used this theological vision to protect Christocentric faith from political manipulation and compromise. For Kierkegaard, this meant criticizing the state church; for Barth, this entailed resisting Nazism. Meticulously crafted by a father-son team of renowned systematic theologians, Beyond Immanence demonstrates that Kierkegaard and Barth share a theological trajectory—one that resists cynical manipulation of Christianity for political purposes in favor of uncompromising devotion to a God who is radically transcendent yet established kinship with humanity in time.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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1467466832

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9781467466837

Reconstructing Pastoral Theology

A Christological Foundation

By: Andrew Purves

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Reconstructing Pastoral Theology

A Christological Foundation

By: Andrew Purves

In Pastoral Care in the Classical Tradition, Andrew Purves argued that pastoral care and theology has long ignored Scripture and Christian doctrine, and pastoral practice has become secularized in both method and goal, the fiefdom of psychology and the social sciences. He builds further on this idea here, presenting a christological basis for ministry and pastoral theology.

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Westminster John Knox Press

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1611642221

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9781611642223

The Freedom to Become a Christian

A Kierkegaardian Account of Human Transformation in Relationship with God

By: Andrew B. Torrance

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The Freedom to Become a Christian

A Kierkegaardian Account of Human Transformation in Relationship with God

By: Andrew B. Torrance

The Kierkegaardian account of becoming a Christian has come to be perceived in radically egocentric terms. Torrance challenges this perception by demonstrating that Kierkegaard was devoted to the idea of Christian conversion as a transformative process of becoming. This process is grounded in an active relationship initiated by the eternal God who has established kinship with us in time. Torrance focuses on 'becoming a Christian' as a particular theological theme that deserves further attention - how 'becoming a Christian' or Christian transformation should be construed in relation to God's initiating and active relationship to the person. Torrance's account of Kierkegaard on human transformation demonstrates in striking ways Kierkegaard's relevance to current issues in systematic theology and philosophical theology around the nature of Christian conversion, particularly how conversion might be re-conceptualized in strong divinely-relational and transformative rather than in progressive self-developmental terms. This study also considers how Kierkegaard was able to negotiate his emphasis on the God-relationship with his emphasis on the importance of individual reflection, decision and action in the Christian life.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567661202

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Encountering God

Christian Faith in Turbulent Times

By: Andrew Purves,Charles Partee

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Encountering God

Christian Faith in Turbulent Times

By: Andrew Purves,Charles Partee

Purves and Partee discuss theology's relevance to personal life and Christian faith from an evangelical perspective and through the lens of the Reformed tradition. "Encountering God" focuses on basic issues of Christian faith as they are filtered through contemporary experience: the merits of doctrine, God, Jesus, faith, justification, sanctification, salvation, sin, predestination, lamentation, hope and joy.

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0664222420

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Beyond Immanence

The Theological Vision of Kierkegaard and Barth

By: Alan J. Torrance,Andrew B. Torrance

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The Theological Vision of Kierkegaard and Barth

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The Freedom to Become a Christian

A Kierkegaardian Account of Human Transformation in Relationship with God

By: Andrew B. Torrance

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A Kierkegaardian Account of Human Transformation in Relationship with God

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Book's by Andrew B. Torrance

Accountability to God

Accountability to God

Beyond Immanence

Beyond Immanence

Reconstructing Pastoral Theology

Reconstructing Pastoral Theology

The Freedom to Become a Christian

The Freedom to Become a Christian

Encountering God

Encountering God

Beyond Immanence

Beyond Immanence

The Freedom to Become a Christian

The Freedom to Become a Christian

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