New PDF release: Lex Crucis: Soteriology and the Stages of Meaning

By William P. Loewe

ISBN-10: 1451472242

ISBN-13: 9781451472240

What is the real tale of God and humankind, and the way does that tale develop into a saving tale? those are pivotal questions that represent the narratives Christians inform approximately themselves, their values, and the way the Christian existence is to be lived. In shaping these tales right into a coherent, intelligible framework that gives finished which means, soteriology—the doctrine of redemption—developed as a keystone to Christian realization. This examine investigates that improvement of the soteriological culture. making use of Bernard Lonergan’s concept of the phases of that means as a hermeneutic, the amount lines the origins of soteriology within the early Christian culture represented by means of Irenaeus to its institution as a scientific thought in Anselm, Aquinas, and next advancements within the Protestant culture of Luther and Schleiermacher. the writer concludes with a positive exploration of Lonergan’s personal paintings at the query of soteriology that overcomes the modernist distortions that prevent Schleiermacher’s account and gives an articulation of the dynamics of Christian conversion that opens onto the social, cultural, and political mediations of redemption invaluable for the modern age.

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