The Role of Justification in Contemporary Theology. By Mark C. Mattes. Pp. xviii + 198. (Lutheran Quarterly Books.) Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans, 2004. isbn 0 8028 2856 6. Paper 25/£16.99
Mark Mattes's starting point is the ‘article by which the church stands or falls’. To put the task he has set himself in the most general terms, he is seeking to assess the implications of the doctrine of justification for the way theology is done., He does so by a close analysis of ‘the extent...
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2006
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2006, Volume: 57, Issue: 1, Pages: 397-400 |
| Review of: | The role of justification in contemporary theology (Grand Rapids, Mich. : Eerdmans, 2004) (Trigg, Jonathan)
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| Summary: | Mark Mattes's starting point is the ‘article by which the church stands or falls’. To put the task he has set himself in the most general terms, he is seeking to assess the implications of the doctrine of justification for the way theology is done., He does so by a close analysis of ‘the extent to which five contemporary leading Protestant theologians—Eberhard Jüngel, Wolfhart Pannenberg, Jürgen Moltmann, Robert Jenson, and Oswald Bayer—integrate justification by faith alone as a standard for systematics’ (p. 8). Of each of the five he asks the same question: whether justification is truly primary, or whether other extraneous material, perhaps ethics, or experience, or a metaphysical project, or some combination of these, is shaping their theological system. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flj051 |