The Word of Life: Systematic Theology: Vol. 2   $34.95

Thomas Clark Oden (b. 1931) is a United Methodist theologian who teaches at Drew University. This is the second in a 3-volume systematic theology (the other volumes are The Living God: Systematic Theology: Vol 1; and Life in the Spirit: Systematic Theology: Vol 3.) He draws heavily upon the church fathers for his theology.

He states in the Preface that “My purpose is to set forth the classical teaching of the person and work of Jesus Christ on which there has generally been substantial agreement between traditions of East and West, Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox. I will be listenting intently for the ecumenical consensus that has been gratefully celebrated as reliable Christian teachings by believers of widely varied social locations and cultural settings and periods… I will restrain my own idiosyncratic way of looking at things. My aim is not polemics but peacemaking.”

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