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Includes bibliographical references (pages 553-556) and indexes Copy contains underlinings, notes and/or marginalia of Dr. Robert W. Bertram

Scope and Contents Dietrich Bonhoeffer was just thirty-nine years old when he was executed by the Nazis in 1945, yet his influence on Christian theology and life has been enormous. "A testment to freedom" takes readers along a biographical-historical journey that follows Bonhoeffer through the various stages of his life and career, including his final years in the underground resistance against the Nazi government and his subsequent martyrdom. This book features previously untranslated writings, sermons, and...

Scope and Contents PART ONE The emergence and defeat of the doctrine of the Trinity -- God's economy revealed in Christ and the Holy Spirit -- The Cappadocian theology of divine relations -- Augustine and the Trinitarian economy of the soul -- Christian prayer and Trinitarian faith-- Thomas Aquinas' theology of the Trinity -- The teaching of Gregory Palamas on God -- PART TWO Re-conceiving the doctrine of the Trinity in the light of the mystery of salvation -- The self-communication of God in Christ and the...

Scope and Contents Teacher: Eleven notes / Lionel Basney -- The ghost of Christmas past: Charles Dickens's Triumph / J. Bottum -- The last chatolic writer / Paul Elie -- Create beyond / Sarah E. Hinlicky -- The unending gospel / Donald Juel and Cornelius Plantinga, Jr. -- Whey we hate teachers / Garret Keizer -- Open secrets / Richard Lischer -- Clio's makeshift laboratory / Wilfred M. McClay -- Three bad ideas for women, and what to do about them / Frederica Mathews-Green After September 11 / Gilbert...

Scope and Contents Forward / Walter Wangerin Jr. -- Chapter one. The nature and extent of Christian devotion -- Chapter two. Why Christians fall so far short -- Chapter eleven. How great devotion fills our lives with peace and happiness -- Chapter fourteen. Prayer and increasing the spirit of devotion -- Chapter seventeen. The practice of humility and living contrary to the world -- Chapter twenty-one. Intercession as an exercise of universal love -- Chapter twenty-three. On evening prayer and the nature and...