Matthew Levering Collection (3 vols.)

by Matthew Levering

Publisher:

Baker Academic

, 2016–2017

Overview

Matthew Levering is a noted scholar whose writings on theology have found an audience among Catholics and Protestants alike. This collection of helpful writings assists readers in gaining a perspective of how apologetic arguments for God’s existence have been articulated throughout Church history. From the writings of the Church Fathers to twentieth-century Protestant voices like Karl Barth, this apologetic has answered different questions at different epochs in time. Similarly, the doctrines of creation and revelation are expertly presented and accompanied by a rationale for their continued prominence and value in the life of the Church and in modern theological debate.

Key Features

• Presents a clear argument for God’s existence utilizing diverse source material
• Illustrates the implications of the doctrine of creation
• Presents the doctrine of creation as it has been understood by theologians over time

Product Details

• Author: Matthew Levering
• Publisher: Baker Academic
• Title: Matthew Levering Collection (3 vols.)
• Volumes: 3
• Pages: 1088
• Christian Group: Catholic
• Resource Type: Monographs
• Topic: Apologetics and Theology

Proofs of God: Classical Arguments from Tertullian to Barth

• Author: Matthew Levering
• Publisher: Baker Academic
• Publication Date: 2016
• Pages: 256

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Leading theologian Matthew Levering presents a thoroughgoing critical survey of the proofs of God's existence for readers interested in traditional Christian responses to the problem of atheism. Beginning with Tertullian and ending with Karl Barth, Levering covers twenty-one theologians and philosophers from the early church to the modern period, examining how they answered the critics of their day. He also shows the relevance of the classical arguments to contemporary debates and challenges to Christianity. In addition to students, this book will appeal to readers of apologetics.

This is the best kind of book: intellectually serious, lucid, and covering a topic of great importance and perennial interest. Levering's interlocutors range in date from the second century to the twentieth, and he is a judicious and lively interpreter of them. For a reliable depiction of the Christian enterprise of thinking about reason and the question of God's existence, this is the book to read.

—Paul J. Griffiths, Warren Chair of Catholic Theology, Duke Divinity School

Engaging the Doctrine of Creation: Cosmos, Creatures, and the Wise and Good Creator

• Author: Matthew Levering
• Publisher: Baker Academic
• Publication Date: 2017
• Pages: 384

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Matthew Levering examines the doctrine of creation and its contemporary theological implications, critically engaging with classical and modern views in dialogue with Orthodox and Reformed interlocutors, among others. Moving from the Trinity to Christology, Levering takes up a number of themes pertaining to the doctrine of creation and focuses on how creation impacts our understandings of both the immanent and the economic Trinity. He also engages newer trends such as ecological theology.

Once again, the indefatigable Matthew Levering has produced a wonderfully lucid survey of a crucial theological topic--this time the doctrine of creation. The work of a scholar of generous temper and analytic rigor who is in touch with the dogmatic traditions of the whole Christian world, this book provides an ideal introduction to its topic.

—David Bentley Hart, contributing editor of First Things

Engaging the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit: Love and Gift in the Trinity and the Church

• Author: Matthew Levering
• Publisher: Baker Academic
• Publication Date: 2016
• Pages: 448

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This work, a companion piece to Levering's Engaging the Doctrine of Revelation, critically engages contemporary and classical doctrines of the Holy Spirit in dialogue with Orthodox and Reformed interlocutors, providing an introduction to the pneumatological landscape shared by all Christians. Levering focuses on the Spirit as Love and Gift in the economy of salvation as well as the Spirit's mission to the church as Christ's body. Through careful exegesis and interplay with sources from across the spectrum and throughout church history, and with special attention given to Thomas Aquinas and his theological heirs, Levering makes a strong dogmatic case for conceiving of the Holy Spirit as love between Father and Son, given to the people of God as a gift.

Once again, the indefatigable Matthew Levering has produced a wonderfully lucid survey of a crucial theological topic--this time the doctrine of creation. The work of a scholar of generous temper and analytic rigor who is in touch with the dogmatic traditions of the whole Christian world, this book provides an ideal introduction to its topic.

—Hans Boersma, J. I. Packer Professor of Theology, Regent College

About Matthew Levering

Matthew Levering is James N. and Mary D. Perry Jr. Chair of Theology at Mundelein Seminary, and Co-Director of the Chicago Theological Initiative. He is the author or editor of over thirty books, and the translator of Gilles Emery’s The Trinity. Most recently he has published Engaging the Doctrine of the Holy Spirit: Love and Gift in the Trinity and the Church and Proofs of God: Classical Arguments from Tertullian to Barth. He co-edits two quarterly journals, Nova et Vetera and International Journal of Systematic Theology. Since 2004, he has been a participant in Evangelicals and Catholics Together, and from 2007-2016 he served as Chair of the Board of the Academy of Catholic Theology. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the St. Paul Center.