Table of Contents

Foreword

Why this treatise.

For whom.

Structure.

I Introduction

Fundamentals of scientific knowledge

• Paradigm & discourse -> Need to restate the faith in order to mean the same as before.
• Knowledge, truth, and the fallibile nature of knowledge (deals with the issue of relativity).
• Science, scientific method and intersubjectivity

Theology as science

• Talk about God.
• Based on observations.
• Based of God’s self-revelation in His Son.
• Founded on Bible – on exegesis, historical method controvercy etc.
• Extrabiblical revelation (nature etc.)

 II Father

• The name of God. God is one, trinity.
•  Creator, transcendence, relationship with creation,
• Issue of determinism & free will.
• The ultimate purpose of this all and the grand plan (takes us to the next point).

III Son

•  Incarnation, two natures of Son.
• Imago dei, nature of man, sin & sins.
• Old & new & covenants.
• Cross & resurrection – two angles to salvation.
• Final judgement (universal atonement, not universal salvation)
• The issue of theodicy.

IV Holy Spirit

• Baptism & Communion
• Body of Christ, autonomy, organisation, offices etc.

Normal Christian life:

• Bible & prayer, sharing
• Flesh &  Spirit etc.

General notes

Some central themes:

• Eternal – temporal
• Incarnation
• Adoption vs. being born from above.
• Marriage.