02665ctm a22003494a 4500 16219654 20250312110419.0 ta 160316s2011 mnu b 001 0 eng 2010018980 9780800696696 (pbk) 0800696697 (alk. paper) (OCoLC)ocn613993705 DLC DLC YDX YDXCP CDX GHS BTA BWX XPQ DLC BT111.3 .H56 2011 231/.044 22 Hinlicky, Paul R. Divine complexity : [manuscript] : the rise of creedal Christianity / Paul R. Hinlicky. Minneapolis, Minn. : Fortress Press, c2011. xii, 284 p. ; 23 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 241-275) and index. The primacy of the gospel -- From resurrection kerygma to gospel narrative -- The scriptures' emergence as the church's canon -- The trinitarian rule of faith -- The confrontation of biblical and philosophical monotheism -- The holy Trinity as the eternal life -- Postscript: The "impassible passibility" of the Trinity. "Paul Hinlicky reads the history of the early church as a genuine, centuriesilong theological struggle to make sense of the confession of Jesus' life, death, and resurrection. Protesting a recent parting of the ways between systematic theology and the history of early Christianity, Hinlicky relies on the insights of historical criticism to argue in this historical survey for the coherence of doctrinal development in the early church. Hinlicky contends that the Christian tradition shows evidence of being governed by a hermeneutic of 'cross and resurrection.' In successive chapters he finds in the New Testament writings a collective Christological decision against docetism; in the union of Old and New Testaments, a monotheistic decision against Gnostic dualism; in the resulting sweep of the canon a narrative of the divine economy of salvation that posed a trinitarian alternative to Arian Unitarianism; and in the insistence upon the cross of the incarnate Son, a rebuke of Nestorianism" -- Publisher description. Bible. New Testament Theology. Trinity History of doctrines. 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg acquire 2 shelf copies policy default claim1 2011-07-21 BK rc07 2010-05-10; to shelflisting 2010-05-11 rc10 2010-05-11 to Dewey rd08 2010-05-11 rc20 2011-08-15 Z-CipVer to BCCD rc20 2011-08-15 copy 2 to BCCD 8 4858 4858 0 0 ddc 0 0 EGSTL EGSTL CIRC 2025-03-09 0 231.044 Hin 2011 14884 2025-03-09 15:55:57 2025-03-09 BK