The Knowledge of God: Essays on God, Christ, and Church

✍ Scribed by Michael Allen

• Publisher: T&T Clark
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 209
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Knowledge of God turns to consider the knowledge of God revealed in the Word of God, with several essays addressing the doctrine of God, then the person of Christ, and finally the miracle of the church. Michael Allen shows the exegetical shape of historical and dogmatic reasoning as well as the significance of thinking about these topics in their interrelationships with a range of other Christian themes, not least the doctrine of the living and true God. In each of these topics, the theme of the promise and nature of God's presence (whether in his own life or then in the economy of the incarnation and of the church) proves to be a unifying thread. The gospel is shown to be rooted backward in God's own life and to have consequence forward for the ongoing life of Christ displayed in his church. This volume explores what it means to learn of and come to know God, who has life in himself and then shares his life with us in the coming of his Son and the ongoing presence amidst his body, the church of Christ.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Preface: God, Gospel, and the Catholic Church
1. The Central Dogma: Order and Principles of Reformed Catholicity
2. Exodus 3 after the Hellenization Thesis
3. The Burning Bush
4. Divine Fullness
5. Trinity: Contemplative and Practical Wisdom
6. Eternal Generation after Barth
7. Christ's Humanity
8. The Obedience of the Eternal Son (with Scott R. Swain)
9. “Into the Family of God”: Covenant and the Genesis of Life with God
10. Sources of the Self: The Distinct Makings of the Christian Identity
11. The Church and the Churches: A Dogmatic Essay on Ecclesial Invisibility
12. The Gospel and the Catholic Church Revisited
13. Totus Christus and Praying the Psalms
Acknowledgments
Index