Christ the Key

by Kathryn Tanner

Overview

Through the intensely intimate relationship that arises between God and humans in the incarnation of the Word in Christ, God gives us the gift of God's own life. This simple claim provides the basis for Kathryn Tanner's powerful study of the centrality of Jesus Christ for all Christian thought and life: if the divine and the human are united in Christ, then Jesus can be seen as key to the pattern that organizes the whole, even while God's ways remain beyond our grasp. Drawing on the history of Christian thought to develop an innovative Christ-centered theology, this book sheds fresh light on major theological issues such as the imago dei, the relationship between nature and grace, the Trinity's implications for human community, and the Spirit's manner of working in human lives. Originally delivered as Warfield Lectures at Princeton Theological Seminary, it offers a creative and compelling contribution to contemporary theology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521732772
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	12/10/2009
Series:	Current Issues in Theology , #7
Pages:	322
Sales rank:	796,416
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Kathryn Tanner is Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor of Theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School. She is the author of Economy of Grace (2005) and Jesus, Humanity and the Trinity: A Brief Systematic Theology (2001).

Table of Contents

Preface vii

1 Human nature 1

2 Grace (part one) 58

3 Grace (part two) 106

4 Trinitarian life 140

5 Politics 207

6 Death and sacrifice 247

7 The working of the Spirit 274

Index 302

Editorial Reviews

"Christ the Key is a shining light in a systematic theology. Not only is it a creative offering that avoids the ruts of the countless systematic texts that simply tell us what other theologians think, but it actually offers a distinctive and rich perspective of its own. This is a book that theologians will return to often and that all pastors should take the time to delve into. It will not disappoint." —Word & World

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