Preface to Theology: Christology and Theological Method

  • Year 2002
  • Type Book
  • Genre christology
  • Tradition Anabaptist
  • Original language English

For For students and readers who want his introduction to the development of Christian doctrine about Jesus; not a short or popular book.

Should I read this?

For the general reader
2 of 5 worth a look
For the researcher
5 of 5 essential
Difficulty
4 of 5 hard

His seminary course on how teaching about Jesus developed from the New Testament to the creeds, and what that means for theology.

How it proceeds
  • Philosophic 4 of 5
  • Scriptural 4 of 5
  • Experiential 0 of 5
  • Sociological 2 of 5
  • Historical 4 of 5

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

John Howard Yoder's introductory course in theology, taught for many years at the Mennonite seminary in Elkhart and long circulated in typescript, published by Brazos Press in 2002 with an introduction by Stanley Hauerwas and Alex Sider. It traces how the earliest Christian preaching about Jesus developed through the New Testament writers and on into the creeds of the early church, and asks what that development teaches about how theology should be done.

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