Confessing the One Faith: An Ecumenical Explication of the Apostolic Faith As It Is Confessed in the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed (Faith and order paper)

Rating:
Summary: An excellent ecumenical work
Review: It is unfortunate that this work is not published on a wider scale. As my theology professor says, this is a remarkable book, especially given that it is "written by committee". And it is quite a remarkable committee considering the huge variation in people who took part in writing this document. Eastern Orthodox, catholic, Coptic, Baptist, Anglican, people from virtually all denominations took part in writing this book that comments on the particular features of the Nicene creed.

This book goes even further by addressing some of the current challenges to some of the claims of the creed. In particular, they highlight the atheist's areguments of the theodicy of evil in the world and their problem with accepting the existence of a good God. Moreover, they also sensitively address the gender specific nature of God used historically.

More than an ecumenical work, it is a great primer for someone begninning a theology course to understand some of the nuances of theology without it getting pedantic.

Rating:
Summary: An excellent ecumenical work
Review: It is unfortunate that this work is not published on a wider scale. As my theology professor says, this is a remarkable book, especially given that it is "written by committee". And it is quite a remarkable committee considering the huge variation in people who took part in writing this document. Eastern Orthodox, catholic, Coptic, Baptist, Anglican, people from virtually all denominations took part in writing this book that comments on the particular features of the Nicene creed.

This book goes even further by addressing some of the current challenges to some of the claims of the creed. In particular, they highlight the atheist's areguments of the theodicy of evil in the world and their problem with accepting the existence of a good God. Moreover, they also sensitively address the gender specific nature of God used historically.

More than an ecumenical work, it is a great primer for someone begninning a theology course to understand some of the nuances of theology without it getting pedantic.