Steven Edward Harris

God and the Teaching of Theology (eBook, ePUB)

Divine Pedagogy in 1 Corinthians 1-4

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Produktbeschreibung

Theologians today are facing a crisis of identity. Are they members of the academy or the church? Is it still possible to be members of both? In God and the Teaching of Theology, Steven Harris argues a way through the impasse by encompassing both church and academy within the umbrella of the divine economy. To accomplish this, Harris uses St. Paul's description of this economy in the opening chapters of his first letter to the Corinthians.

Through Paul's discussion of wisdom, the Spirit, and the apostles' role in sharing that divine wisdom, theologians of the patristic, medieval, and Reformation eras found a description of their own work as educators; they discovered that they too had roles within the same divine economy.

This book thus offers a rich description of the teaching of theology as part of God's own divine pedagogy, stretching from God the teacher himself, through the nature of students and teachers of theology, to the goal of this pedagogy: human salvation in the knowledge of God. In addressing the current identity crisis of theology faculties, Harris looks backward in order to chart a way forward. His book will appeal to academic theologians, and to theological and church educators, pastors, and Christians interested in the relationship between academic study and their faith.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780268105242
• Artikelnr.: 56952241

Autorenporträt

Steven Edward Harris is a fellow of the Kirby Laing Institute for Christian Ethics and research scholar at Wycliffe College, University of Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Theologians in God's Plan
1. God the Teacher of His Wisdom
2. The Divine Pedagogy in History
3. Wisdom, Divine and Human
4. The Students of the Divine Wisdom
5. The Position and Authority of God's Teachers
6. The Method and Judgment of God's Teachers
7. The End of the Divine Pedagogy
Conclusion: Knowing God
Appendix. Chronological Table of Commentators
Bibliography