Theological Negotiations: Proposals in Soteriology and Anthropology

In Theological Negotiations, leading theologian Douglas Farrow tackles some of his discipline's perennial challenges, including the relation between nature and grace, philosophy and theology, autonomy and freedom, justification and sanctification, Gentile and Jew, and Christ's offering and ours.
Controversial issues from supersessionism to transubstantiation to the perfection and final end of man are approached in new and innovative ways, showing what constructive theology looks like when it is determined to think eschatologically about the relations in question.
The innovation, however, is never at the expense of biblical and creedal parameters or of patient engagement with the Christian tradition and its formative thinkers. Along the way, Farrow invites readers to renegotiate, or at least to rethink, some key Catholic/Protestant differences in soteriology as well as some ill-advised compromises with contemporary autonomy-based anthropology.
Contents
1. Theology and Philosophy: Recovering the Pax Thomistica
2. Thinking with Aquinas about Nature and Grace
3. Thinking with Luther about Justification and Sanctification
4. Satisfaction and Punishment: Reckoning with Anselm
5. Whose Offering? Doxological Pelagianism as an Ecumenical Problem
6. Transubstantiation: Sic transit mundus ad gloriam
7. Autonomy: Sic transit anima ad infernum
8. For the Jew First: Reaffirming the Pax Paulinica
9. The Gift of Fear: A Meditation on Hebrews
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