Christian Theology draws on major historical works of theology and contemporary scholarship to integrate biblical, historical, and systematic theology into a three-part framework of Faith and History, Christology, and Soteriology.
Part 1, Faith and History, introduces Christian Theology, explaining why it begins with Christ. It also reviews what is known about Jesus historically and the faith in which he was brought up—the faith in the God of Israel. This part concludes with an examination of the resurrection of Jesus.
Part 2, Christology: The Doctrine of the Person of Christ, begins with theology as ‘faith seeking understanding’. It is faith in the Gospel that the crucified Christ is risen from the dead, and this faith in turn issues in the confession that Jesus Christ is ‘Lord’. From here, part 2 traces the logic of the Church’s development of Christology, the doctrine of the Person of Christ, from Scripture and, specifically, from the apostolic Gospel.
Part 3, Soteriology: The Doctrine of the Work of Christ, investigates the ‘Grace’ of God seen in the doctrine of the Atonement as an aspect of Christology.
Thomas A. Noble is research professor of theology at Nazarene Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri, where he has taught for twenty-five years. Before that, he taught theology at Nazarene Theological College, Manchester, United Kingdom, where he is still a research fellow, supervising PhD research with the University of Manchester. He is a graduate of the Universities of Glasgow (MA) and Edinburgh (BD, PhD) and a past president of the Wesleyan Theological Society and of the T. F. Torrance Theological Fellowship.
