Contributor
George, Timothy.
Imprint:Grand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Academic, c2011.
Descriptionxxiv, 247 p. ; 23 cm.
Note:Proceedings of a conference held Sept. 28-30, 2009 at Beeson Divinity School of Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama.
Note:Introduction : The faith we confess / Timothy George -- PART I. IDENTITY: The faith once delivered : Nicea and evangelical confession / Thomas C. Oden -- The gospel promised by the prophets : the Trinity and the Old Testament / Mark S. Gignilliat -- The road to Nicea : the New Testament / Frank Thielman -- Whosoever will be saved : the Athanasian Creed and the modern church / Gerald R. Bray -- PART II. HISTORY: The Reformers and the Nicene faith : an assumed catholicity / Carl L. Beckwith -- The Nicene faith and the catholicity of the church : evangelical retrieval and the problem of magisterium / Steven R. Harmon -- The church is part of the gospel : a sermon on the four marks of the church / Carl E. Braaten -- Confessional, Baptist, and Arminian : the general-free will Baptist tradition and the Nicene faith / J. Matthew Pinson -- Toward a generous orthodoxy / Curtis W. Freeman -- PART III. PRACTICE: Practicing the Nicene faith / Elizabeth Newman -- The Nicene faith and evangelical worship / David P. Nelson -- Taking in his coming down / Kathleen B. Nielson -- The will to believe and the need for creeds / John Rucyahana -- Can the church emerge without or with only the Nicene Creed? / Mark DeVine -- Life after life after death : a sermon on the final phrase of the Nicene Creed / Ralph C. Wood -- Delighted by doctrine : a tribute to Jaroslav Pelikan / Timothy George.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-239) and index.
