Christian Theology: An Introduction

An introduction, and as such, very good of its kind. Start here, if you are interested in Christian theology - just don't END here, but go beyond, to the original sources.

I read this for an introduction to systematic theology course at seminary. It is an adequate introduction but I probably wouldn't read it except for a class.

A surprising good read! I read this over a week when at a Quaker holiday camp in Sussex England and after it found this joke even funnier!

Jesus said, Whom do men say that I am?

And his disciples answered and said, Some say you are John the Baptist returned from the dead; others say Elias, or other of the old prophets.

And Jesus answered and said, But whom do you say that I am?

Peter answered and said, "Thou art the Logos, existing in the Father as His rationality and then, by an act of His will, being generated, in consideration of the various functions by which God is related to his creation, but only on the fact that Scripture speaks of a Father, and a Son, and a Holy Spirit, each member of the Trinity being co-equal with every other show more member, and each acting inseparably with and interpenetrating every other member, with only an economic subordination within God, but causing no division which would make the substance no longer simple."

And Jesus, answering, said, "What?" show less

Christianity. It's more than guys with bad hair on cable TV! Each paragraph if not almost every sentence of this overview doubtless has shelves of weighty tomes devoted to its subject, starting with the Church Fathers and continuing to this day. Tolle, lege!

This is a unique introduction to Christian theology which encompasses a massive amount of material with relative brevity, clarity, and cohesiveness in a primarily historical context.

McGrath organized the most important theological topics/issues in the Christian history very succinctly compared to the boundary of study. Very helpful for the overview of Christian theology, and good guidebook for the further study for each topic.

SO FAR GREAT READING,GREAT BASICS.