TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brunner, Emil, 
TI  - The Christian doctrine of the church, faith, and the consummation
SN  - 9781498205306
AV  - BT75 .B7813 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Eugene, OR
PB  - Wipf & Stock Pub., 
KW  - Church.
KW  - Faith
KW  - Salvation
N1  - Includes index; 	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
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