What is the true story of God and humankind, and how does that story become a saving story? These are pivotal questions that constitute the narratives Christians tell about themselves, their values, and how the Christian life is to be lived. In shaping those stories into a coherent, intelligible framework that provides comprehensive meaning, soteriology-the doctrine of redemption-developed as a keystone to Christian consciousness. This study investigates that development of the soteriological tradition. Employing Bernard Lonergan's notion of the stages of meaning as a hermeneutic, the volume traces the origins of soteriology in the early Christian tradition represented by lrenaeus to its establishment as a systematic theory in Anselm, Aquinas, and subsequent developments in the Protestant tradition of Luther and Schleiermacher. The author concludes with a constructive exploration of Lonergan's own work on the question of soteriology and offers an articulation of the dynamics of Christian conversion that opens onto the social, cultural, and political mediations of redemption necessary for the contemporary age.
- ISBN10 1506410162
- ISBN13 9781506410166
- Publish Date 3 June 2016 (first published 1 May 2016)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Fortress Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 336
- Language English