The Knowledge of God: Essays on God, Christ, and Church

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The Knowledge of God turns to consider the knowledge of God revealed in the Word of God, with several essays addressing the doctrine of God, then the person of Christ, and finally the miracle of the church. Michael Allen shows the exegetical shape of historical and dogmatic reasoning as well as the significance of thinking about these topics in their interrelationships with a range of other Christian themes, not least the doctrine of the living and true God. In each of these topics, the theme of the promise and nature of God’s presence (whether in his own life or then in the economy of the incarnation and of the church) proves to be a unifying thread. The gospel is shown to be rooted backward in God’s own life and to have consequence forward for the ongoing life of Christ displayed in his church. This volume explores what it means to learn of and come to know God, who has life in himself and then shares his life with us in the coming of his Son and the ongoing presence amidst his body, the church of Christ. Cover Contents Preface: God, Gospel, and the Catholic Church Chapter 1 The Central Dogma: Order and Principles of Reformed Catholicity Chapter 2 Exodus 3 After the Hellenization Thesis Chapter 3 The Burning Bush Chapter 4 Divine Fullness Chapter 5 Trinity: Contemplative and Practical Wisdom Chapter 6 Eternal Generation after Barth Chapter 7 Christ’s Humanity Chapter 8 The Obedience of the Eternal Son Chapter 9 Into the Family of God: Covenant and the Genesis of Life with God Chapter 10 Sources of the Self: The Distinct Makings of the Christian Identity Chapter 11 The Church and the Churches: A Dogmatic Essay on Ecclesial Invisibility Chapter 12 The Gospel and the Catholic Church Reconsidered Chapter 13 Totus Christus and Praying the Psalms Acknowledgments Index