Created for Community: Connecting Christian Belief with Christian Living, 3rd ed.
Digital Verbum Edition
Overview
This volume overviews the core doctrines of the Christian faith, encouraging readers to connect belief with everyday life. Stanley Grenz, one of the leading evangelical scholars of his era, and Jay Smith, an expert on Grenz’s theological legacy, construct a helpful theology that is biblical, historical, and contemporary. The third edition includes a foreword by John Franke, a new preface and afterword, resources for further study, and updated footnotes. The easy-to-use format includes end-of-chapter discussion questions and connects theological concepts with current cultural examples.
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Discover more of the basics of the Christian faith in Wayne Grudem’s Christian Beliefs: Twenty Basics Every Christian Should Know.
- Presents the basic doctrines of the Christian faith
- Connects doctrine to everyday life
- Constructs a biblical, historical, and contemporary theology
- Knowing the God of the Bible in the Contemporary World
- The God Whom We Know
- Our Identity as God’s Creatures
- Our Human Failure
- Jesus Christ: “God with Us”
- Jesus’ Mission in the Divine Program
- The Holy Spirit: The Author of Life
- The Holy Spirit and Our Salvation
- The Pioneer Community
- Participating in the Pioneer Community
- The Climax of Our Story
- God’s Community: Our Eternal Home
Stanley Grenz restores the balance between thought and action, individual and community, head and heart, and reason and experience in this splendid and readable work.
—Robert E. Webber, author, Ancient-Future Faith
Stanley Grenz has written a fresh, creative work that makes deep theological reflection accessible to everybody. In a tradition too often tinged with anti-intellectualism, it offers the opportunity to help us worship God with our whole mind.
—John Ortberg, pastor, Menlo Park Presbyterian Church
Stanley J. Grenz (1950–2005) was Pioneer McDonald Professor of Theology at Carey Theological College in Vancouver, British Columbia, and professor of theological studies at Mars Hill Graduate School, Seattle, Washington. He authored over 25 books, including A Primer on Postmodernism, Prayer: The Cry for the Kingdom, and Theology for the Community of God.
Jay T. Smith is president and Bridger Professor of Theology and Ethics at Yellowstone Theological Institute. He is a coauthor of Pocket Dictionary of Theological Terms.
