One Faith: The Evangelical Consensus

  • Year 2004
  • Type Book
  • Genre theology
  • Tradition Evangelical
  • Original language English

For For a reader asking whether evangelicals share a common theology. Not for one wanting an argument with other traditions.

Should I read this?

For the general reader
2 of 5 worth a look
For the researcher
4 of 5 important
Difficulty
3 of 5 demanding

Packer and Thomas Oden document the shared beliefs of modern evangelicals from their own statements of faith.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 2 of 5
  • Scriptural 3 of 5
  • Experiential 0 of 5
  • Sociological 3 of 5
  • Historical 3 of 5

Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.

Written by Packer with the Methodist theologian Thomas C. Oden and published by InterVarsity Press in 2004. The two authors argue that a significant theological consensus holds the evangelical church together, and let the evidence speak through copious citations from statements produced since 1950 that represent international evangelical faith. They survey key documents, particularly the Lausanne Covenant (1974), the Manila Manifesto (1989), The Gospel of Jesus Christ: An Evangelical Celebration (1999) and the Amsterdam Declaration (2000), together with the statements of seminaries and societies, and chart them under sixteen theological themes.

Catalog IDW.ES54KG.1

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