C. Norman Kraus

God Our Savior (eBook, PDF)

Theology in a Christological Mode

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Produktbeschreibung

This volume makes a systematic theological statement in light of the unique revelation of God and humankind that has come to us in Jesus, the Messiah, as recorded in Scripture. It is the companion to the author's 'Jesus Christ Our Lord' (1987, 1990). There are chapters on Jesus Christ as the lens through which we receive theological insight, revelation, God, humanity, the Holy Spirit, the church, and last things, all understood through God's self-disclosure in Christ. From within the Anabaptist theological tradition, Kraus offers a biblically oriented alternative to rationalistic orthodoxy and to liberalism. He takes Scripture as the normative witness to the meaning of Christ, the authoritative source for theological reflection, and thus makes a thoroughly evangelical statement. Yet this evangel begins with salvation as newness of life in resurrection with Christ, not simply as juridical justification. The emphasis is on God as source of creative potential rather than on God as instigator of legal judgment. Christ, the Second Adam, the truest image of God, is both the climax of creation and the means through which humanity can attain that image and respond to God in personal relationship. Kraus views the Holy Spirit as the enlivening presence of the risen Christ, the church as the continuing saving mission of Christ, and eschatology as the victory of Christ over the powers of evil and death.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781725218154
• Artikelnr.: 60107325

Autorenporträt

With his wife, Ruth, C. Norman Kraus served under Mennonite Board of Missions in short-term assignments and for seven years in Asia and Australia (1980-1987). It was during this time that the present book was written.

He has served on the Mennonite Board of Missions' overseas committee and has gone on teaching missions to churches in India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Australia, and various East African countries. He was also a member of the Health and Welfare Committee of the Mennonite Board of Missions for five years.

Kraus has taught at the following seminaries in Asia: Serampore Theological College (1966-67) in India; Union Biblical Seminary (1983) in Pune, India; Eastern Hokkaido Bible School (1981-86) in Japan; and Baptist Theological College of Western Australia (1987).

Prior to his assignment in Japan, Kraus was a professor of religion and director of the Center for Discipleship at Goshen College. He was also book review editor of the 'Mennonite Quarterly Review'. A student of both Anabaptism and Evangelicalism and its origins, he is the author of 'Dispensationalism in America' (John Knox, 1985).

A native of Newport News, Virginia, Kraus earned graduate degrees from Goshen Biblical Seminary, Princeton Theological Seminary (Th.M.), and Duke University (Ph.D.). In addition to numerous articles, he is the author of 'The Healing Christ' (Herald Press, 1971), 'The Community of the Spirit' (Eerdmans, 1974), 'The Authentic Witness' (Eerdmans, 1979), and the editor of 'Evangelicalism and Anabaptism' (Herald Press, 1979).

In 1950, Kraus was ordained as a minister in the Indiana-Michigan Mennonite Conference. He has moved to Virginia, where he is a member of the Park View Mennonite congregation and interim pastor (1990-91) of Community Mennonite Church, both of Harrisonburg, Virginia. He and his wife, Ruth, are the parents of five grown children.

At present Norman and Ruth are at home in Harrisonburg, where is is continuing his writing.