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Title: The Cambridge Companion to Christian Doctrine by Colin E. Gunton ISBN: 0-521-47695-X Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 19 June, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: Look Elsewhere
Comment: Considering that I see myself as a very conservative evangelical, I find many of the conclusions by the authors questionable. The book is composed of essays written by moderate "evangelicals" (some may not even consider the authors evangelical at all). The Cambridge Companion series is geared more towards the neutral student. Some of the essays are fairly good. For instance, Francis Watson's "The Scope of Hermeneutics" and Trevor Hart's "Redemption and Fall". However, many of the essays were oriented to show the readers why ecumenicism, societal justice, environmentalism are good and rigid evangelical Protestant fundamentalism is bad. You can detect this hidden agenda when you read through the essays. It's not like the authors want to present a book on CHRISTIAN doctrine, but on how we can use the Bible to solve modern-day problems in our world. For a more conservative evangelical (and biblical) perspective on Christian doctrine try Alister McGrath's "Christian Theology".

Rating: 5
Summary: An outstanding collection
Comment: Simply put, The Cambridge Companion to Christian Doctrine is an outstanding collection of essays by leading theologians and serves well as an introduction to contemporary trends in Christian theology. The authors are generally more conservative--postliberal or evangelical--and offer stimulating constructive and historical essays regarding Christian theology in general and the traditional doctrines.

I use the text in a graduate level intro. course to compliment another standard text in systematic theology, giving the student another brief perspective on contemporary Christian theology. Readers with some background in philosophy or theology will find it extremely useful, but those with no philosophical or theological background may be a little overwhelmed (consider Alister McGrath's "Christian Theology: An Introduction" instead).

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