SCM Core Text Christian Doctrine

<p>The SCM Core Text: Christian Doctrine offers an up-to-date accessible introduction to one of the core subjects of theology. Written for second and third-year university students it shows that Christian Doctrine is not a series of impossible claims to be clung to with blind faith. Mike Higton argues that it is rather a set of claims that emerge in the midst of Christian life as Christian communities try to make enough sense of their lives and of their world to allow them to carry on. Christian communities have made sense of their own life and the life of the wider world in which they are set as life created by God to share in God's own life. They have seen themselves and their world as laid hold of God's life in Jesus of Nazareth and as having the Spirit of God's own life actively at work within them. This book explores these and other central Christian doctrines and in each case shows how the doctrine makes sense and how it is woven into Christian life. It will help readers to see what sense it might make to say the things that Christian doctrine says and how that doctrine might affect the way that one looks at everything: the natural world gossip culture speaking in tongues politics dieting human freedom love High Noon justice computers racism the novels of Jane Austin parenthood death and fashion.</p>