Brunner, Emil 1889-1966 creator text xxu Eugene, OR Wipf & Stock Pub. 2014 monographic eng

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xii, 457 p. : 23 cm. Church and Holy Spirit -- The ground and nature of the Ekklesia -- The primitive Christian Ekklesia and Pauline idea of the Ekklesia -- Appendix: on the doctrine of baptism -- The development of the Ekklesia into the church -- Delaying factors in the development of the Ekklesia into the church, and attempts to restore the Ekklesia -- The church as instrument and shell of the Ekklesia -- The crises of the church in Europe -- The search for the new form of the church -- The essential marks of the church according to the apostolic witness of faith -- The Ekklesia as presupposition of faith -- Faith and unbelief -- Faith according to the witness of scripture -- Excursus: Martin Buber's teaching on the Apostles' misunderstanding of faith -- The misunderstanding of faith -- The perfected form of faith: the justification of the sinner by faith alone -- Justifying faith in Christ and the creed of the church -- Doctrinal belief and belief in the Bible as the vehicle of pistis -- Faith and knowledge -- The certainty of faith, and doubt -- Regeneration as a special aspect of justification -- Conversion -- Sanctification -- The commandment of love and the law -- The Christian in the world -- The theology of prayer Faith and hope -- The objection of unbelief to the Christian hope -- The kingdom of God and eternal life -- The kingdom of God as the meaning and goal of history -- The mystery of death -- To depart and be with Christ -- The coming of the Lord in glory: the parousia -- Appendix: the problem of demythologization -- The resurrection -- Universalism and world judgment -- The consummation. Emil Brunner. Includes index. Church Faith Salvation BT75 .B7813 2014 v. 3 9781498205306 180212 20180212215037.0