God Has Spoken: A History of Christian Theology
Overview
In this groundbreaking resource, professor Gerald Bray traces the history of Christian theology from the early church to the modern era. Structured to parallel the order in which orthodoxy gradually matured in response to challenges from both inside and outside the church, this volume outlines how Christians have struggled to understand, confess, and worship the triune God through the centuries.
Top Highlights
“None of these terms expresses God in itself, but taken together they are indicative of the power of the Almighty.15” (Page 72)
“As an event of theological significance, the exile plays no obvious part in the New Testament at all.” (Page 64)
“in some absolute sense that does not apply to the other persons of the Trinity.” (Page 112)
- Title: God Has Spoken: A History of Christian Theology
- Author: Gerald Bray
- Publisher: Crossway
- Print Publication Date: 2014
- Logos Release Date: 2017
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Theology, doctrinal › History
- ISBNs: 9781433526947, 9781433526978, 9781433526954, 9781433526961, 1433526948, 1433526972, 1433526956, 1433526964
- Resource ID: LLS:GDHSSPKCHRSTNTH
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:12:17Z
Dr. Gerald Bray is Research Professor of Divinity at Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham, AL, and Distinguished Professor of Theology at Knox Theological Seminary, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
He was born and raised in Montreal, Canada, where he did his undergraduate work at McGill University. He completed his doctoral studies at the Sorbonne in Paris and went on to study theology in Cambridge. In 1978 he was ordained in the Church of England and served a parish in London for two years before going on to teach at Oak Hill College in London. He has been at Beeson since 1993.
Dr. Bray is the editor of the Anglican journal Churchman and has published a number of books, including the award-winning Biblical Interpretation: Past and Present (InterVarsity Press, 1996), Yours Is the Kingdom: A Systematic Theology of the Lord's Prayer(InterVarsity Press, 2007), God Is Love (Crossway, 2012), and his most recent work, God Has Spoken: A History of Christian Theology (Crossway, 2014).
Dr. Bray speaks several languages fluently. He has lived in Germany, Greece, and Russia, and he has taught in several European countries and Australia. He can often be found in one of the archives of the Church of England, researching parts of its history, on which he has also published a number of important works. He is also an avid swimmer and cyclist.
Reviews
1 rating
Barnabas
8/4/2022
Extremely helpful book. I have a physical copy of it and it's well written and comprehensive. It flows from chapter to chapter in an unusual way, and so the exact topic previously addressed might not be addressed directly in the next chapter, even though the historical period in the next section has moved forward, the topic is partly new. It seems to move topically based on the historical period and the historical questions which arose in that period.