The Making of Christian Doctrine: A Study in the Principles of Early Doctrinal Development - Softcover

Wiles, Maurice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521099625 ISBN 13: 9780521099622

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

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A paperback edition of this well-known study.

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Paperback. Pub Date: 1975 09 Pages: 200 Publisher: the University. Camidge Press A paperback edition of this well-known study Since its first publication in 1967 this book has aroused a lively Debate among theologians and the practicising Clergy. The author had since returned to the discussion (The Remaking of Christian Doctrine. SCM Press 1974) and has stressed the contemporary need to define and develop Christian doctrine. In the earlier work Professor Wiles asks how the early Church fathers' doctrinal affirmations - expressed for example in the Nicene Creed and Chalcedonian Definition - remain valid today when the framework of the fathers' learning and discourse has disappeared. Doctrine was necessary. he argues. to answer objections to Christianity in a largely non-Christian world. to tackle the problem of heresy and to satisfy the desire of Christians to express their f...

Book Description

A paperback edition of this well-known study. Since its first publication in 1967 this book has aroused a lively debate among theologians and practicising clergy. The author had since returned to the discussion (The Remaking of Christian Doctrine, SCM Press 1974) and has stressed the contemporary need to define and develop Christian doctrine.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521099625
• ISBN 13: 9780521099622
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 196