02551cam a22002774a 450000100090000000300060000900500170001500800410003201000170007302000380009002000350012803500230016304000490018605000220023508200160025724500910027326000400036430000210040450400530042550507940047852008710127265000270214365000250217065000320219570000460222714670517AUA.120160114170325.0061214s2006    ilu      b    001 0 eng    a  2006101577  a9781844741304 (pbk. : alk. paper)  a1844741303 (pbk. : alk. paper)  a(OCoLC)ocm77520542  aDLCcDLCdBAKERdBTCTAdC#PdYDXCPdTLEdDLC00aBR 118b.A44 200600a230/.4222200aAlways reforming :bexplorations in systematic theology /cedited by A. T. B. McGowan.  bApolloscc2006.aLeicester, England  a365 p. ;c23 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.0 aThe Trinity : where do we go from here? / Gerald Bray -- Observations on the future of system / Stephen Williams -- Classical Christology's future in systematic theology / Robert L. Reymond -- On the very idea of a theological system : an essay in aid of triangulating Scripture, Church and world / Kevin J. Vanhoozer -- The atonement as penal substitution / A.T.B. McGowan -- The relationship between biblical theology and systematic theology / Richard C. Gamble -- Old Covenant, New Covenant / Henri Blocher -- Union with Christ : some biblical and theological reflections / Richard B. Gaffin, Jr. -- Justification : the ecumenical, biblical and theological dimensions of current debates / Cornelis P. Venema -- The doctrine of the church in the twenty-first century / Derek W.H. Thomas.  aThe Reformed churches of the sixteenth century affirmed the need to be semper reformanda--always reforming. But in the ensuing centuries, some have taken this conviction as a mandate to abandon the departure from received orthodoxy, while others have progressed toward a rigid confessionalism that cements the Reformation itself as a final codification of truth. Between these extremes is the ongoing need of the church to be always reforming--subjecting its beliefs and practices to the renewed scrutiny of Holy Scripture and restating the truth of Scriptures in ways that faithfully communicate the gospel, advance the mission of the church and empower the people of God. This collection of essays practices what it preaches, mining the whole terrain of systematic theology to refresh, renew and reform the church for its next season. --from publisher description. 0aTheologyxMethodology. 0aTheology, Doctrinal. 0aReformed ChurchxDoctrines.1 aMcGowan, A. T. B.q(Andrew Thomson Blake)