An Exploration of Christian Theology
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An Exploration of Christian Theology
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Allen B. Ellis
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Narrated by:
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Allen B. Ellis
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Don Thorsen
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This introduction to Christian theology explores the whole Christian tradition in a simple and straightforward way. Leading Wesleyan theologian Don Thorsen surveys the theological views represented within historic Christianity and discusses the variety of positions held without favoring one over another. The audiobook includes helpful end-of-chapter questions for further reflection and discussion, a convenient glossary of theological terms, and sidebars.
The second edition is marked by a thorough updating of the text and the addition of two new chapters on apologetics and the future of the unevangelized.
©2017 Baker Academic (P)2023 Don ThorsenListeners also enjoyed...
Thirsen includes a brief tour of Christian spirituality, which most serious students would probably view as a separate discipline, so that readers simply wishing to find a complete overview of the conceptual basis of Christianity need look no further than this treatise.
My reservations are, firstly, that this comes from a professor of biblically based systematic theology who rather gives his game away by constantly referring to ‘scripture’ instead of ‘the Bible whereas many theologians and believers would view the cannon as only one of three sources of Christian guidance beside tradition and reason/revelation from the Holy Spitit. My second reservation is that while aThorsen includes a chapter on biblical criticism, his references to the aBible, sound and authentic in themselves, assign equal weight to everything except the book ofRevelations which, of course, does need a bit of special treatment.
Despite these small warnings I am confident that those seriously seeking an introduction to Christian thought and tradition could do no better than to read this audiobook. The reader does a splendid job with a difficult text: American academics are used to references being cited in the text, but in a reading, and especially when there is a whole scroll of citations after the sentence, they do become somewhat tedious to listen to. This reader does the best he can.
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