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Title: The Living God : Systematic Theology: Volume One (Systematic Theology, Vol 1) by Thomas C. Oden ISBN: 0-06-066363-4 Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco Pub. Date: 14 August, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.38 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Historically Based Systematic Theology
Comment: Oden states that the history of the church is the history of exegesis. By looking back down the hollowed corridor of history to the faith that was delivered up through past generations, who sometimes willingly died as martyrs to protect and pass down the gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, we rediscover the historical and intellectual roots of the Christian faith. Oden's view is that the wisdom of Christian thought has lain dormant and neglected by the contemporary church for far too long.
Oden desires to present the reader with the faith that Vincent of Lerins reflected when he penned, "quod ubique, quod semper, quod ab omnibus creditum est": "that which has been believed in every place, in every time, by everyone." By this, he means those statements of faith that have been claimed by the majority of Christians throughout time. Oden evidences a firm sense of the importance of reconciling historic doctrinal teaching within the ecclesiastical fundamentals of theology while presenting it in a way that will fascinate evangelicals as they row down the river of historical theology from its headwaters in the New Testament towards modernity. Faithful to this purpose, Oden tries to make no new theological contribution, seeks no new way to contemplate the Lord, no new method of expressing or articulating the Christian faith. Instead he calls upon with great frequency (over 15,000 times throughout the three volumes) to exegetes of Christian history which, as a group of thinkers, he refers to as classical Christianity, or ancient ecumenical orthodoxy. His goal is to warm Protestants to the richness of centuries of Christian intellectual achievement which led to the Reformation. Therefore, unlike other systematics where little thought is given to historical exegesis as though the Lord invented Christianity and then placed it on a shelf until the 16th century Reformation, this is a systematic that allows the historic Church to reveal its mastery of Christian thought that the history books ignore. By adhering to such a pattern, Oden has contested against the urge to engage modern and contemporary theologians and theological systems.
Though the reading can be difficult, not because Oden fails to define terms, or through the use of ambiguous language, but because his work is broken up by so many references to classical Christian exegetes. Nevertheless, Oden's systematic is well worth the reading effort, for it puts you in touch with what the great and enduring Christian teachers have thought of God and the meaning of the gospel of Jesus Christ. While not wishing to downplay the differences within the Body, I would point out that Oden harbors within the pages of his systematic theology an ecumenical focus that is surprisingly evangelical. In short, I highly recommend this systematic as it may well be the best systematic theology on the market. Undoubtedly, it is the best Wesleyan/Arminian systematic available today.
Rating: 5
Summary: Outstanding!
Comment: A wonderful systematic theology. Very,very detailed. Oden doesn't start with the reformation as true christian living. The sources he is using are like a pyramid. First the scriptures, then apostolic fathers and so on. By this principle ancient and traditional sources are more used than modern authors or theologies.
A must for christians of all (!) churches. Buy all 3 volumes!
Rating: 5
Summary: An Outstanding Survey of Christian Theology
Comment: Thomas Oden brings his usual passion to this work of theology, combining Biblical, Apostolic, Patristic, Medieval and Reformed thought into an excellent exploration of fundamental Christian doctrine. Oden is a "thinking person's conservative" who does not gloss over challenges to traditional Christian doctrines, but almost always concludes that the traditional doctrines are, in fact, correct and have stood the test of time and experience. I especially like Oden's ecumenical focus ... as one other reviewer remarked, this is a book that will be valuable to Catholics and Protestants, Calvinists and Wesleyans, High-Church and Low-Church. In sum, incredibly worthwhile!
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Title: The Word of Life : Systematic Theology: Volume Two (Systematic Theology, Vol 2) by Thomas C. Oden ISBN: 0060663642 Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco Pub. Date: 14 August, 1992 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: Life in the Spirit (Systematic Theology, Volume 3) by Thomas C. Oden ISBN: 0060663626 Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco Pub. Date: 04 November, 1994 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: The True Image by Philip Edgcumbe Hughes ISBN: 1579102859 Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $46.00 |
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Title: Pocket Dictionary of Theological Terms (Pocket Dictionary) by Stanley Grenz, David Guretzki, Cherith Fee Nording ISBN: 0830814493 Publisher: InterVarsity Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.00 |
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Title: The Trinitarian Faith: The Evangelical Theology of the Ancient Catholic Church by Thomas F. Torrance ISBN: 0567292193 Publisher: T. & T. Clark Publishers, Ltd. Pub. Date: 01 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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