A new history of redemption : the work of Jesus the Messiah through the millennia

A new history of redemption The work of Jesus the Messiah through the millennia

Gerald R. McDermott

Book - 2024

"Taking inspiration from Jonathan Edwards, a widely-respected evangelical theologian traces the redeeming work of the Messiah in the Bible and in church history up through the new heavens and earth"--

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Subjects
Jesus Christ > Person and offices > Biblical teaching.
Jesus Christ
Redemption > Christianity > History of doctrines.
Published
Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Academic, a division of Baker Publishing Group [2024]
Language
English
Main Author
Gerald R. McDermott (author)
Physical Description
xxii, 426 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9780801098543
  • Preface
  • 1. What Is Redemption?
  • Theology as History
  • Righteousness and Redemption
  • The Scope of Redemption
  • The Parts of Redemption
  • The Purposes of Redemption
  • Part 1. From Eternity to the Dispersal of the Nations
  • 2. Redemption Planned from Eternity
  • Creation and Time
  • Then Why?
  • Seven Components
  • The "How" of God's Glory
  • Glory Manifested in God's Justice
  • The Second Reason for Creation
  • No Joy in Wrath
  • Delight in Lovingkindness
  • Forgiveness because of Love
  • Judgments for Love
  • Two Purposes Become One
  • How It Works
  • 3. Redemption after Eden
  • Prophecy and Mediation
  • The Angel of the Lord
  • First Glimmers of Hope
  • Taught by God
  • The First Redeemed Souls
  • The First Soul in Heaven
  • 4. The Spirit and Messiah from Enosh and Enoch to Noah and the Nations
  • Communal and Liturgical Worship
  • The Spirit and Revivals
  • Redemption of Bodies
  • Sons of God and the Nephilim
  • Noah and the Flood
  • The Noahic Covenant
  • The Noahic Commandments
  • The Righteous Remnant
  • The Nations and Other Religions
  • Rebellion at Babel
  • Disinheriting the Nations
  • Rule by Fallen Angels
  • Real Gods in Masquerade
  • Not a Backup Plan
  • Part 2. From Abraham to Moses
  • 5. Abraham and the Patriarchs
  • God Separates a Person
  • The Center of Idolatry
  • A New Foundation
  • New Revelations of Redemption and the Redeemer
  • More Details about Redemption
  • God's Protection of His People
  • Terrors of the Law
  • Renewals of the Covenant of Grace
  • Joseph a Type of the Redeemer
  • Locating the Messiah
  • Early Hindu Tradition
  • Part 3. From Moses to the Incarnation
  • 6. Moses to David
  • Redemption from Egypt
  • Rejection of Other Peoples
  • Shortening of Human Life
  • The Law at Sinai
  • The Written Word of God
  • The Journey to Canaan
  • Prophecies of the Messiah
  • Pouring Out the Spirit
  • Settlement in Canaan
  • Liturgical Worship and Sacraments
  • Preserving the Church and True Religion
  • Appearances of the Messiah
  • Early Prophets
  • 7. David to the Captivity
  • Anointing of the King
  • Enlargement of the Biblical Canon
  • Samuel's Role
  • Jerusalem
  • The Covenant of Grace
  • The Land
  • Jewish Worship
  • Miraculous Preservation
  • The Glorious Religion
  • Decline of the Kingdom
  • The Preservation of Judah
  • The Prophets
  • 8. From the Captivity to the Messiah
  • The Age of Revolutions
  • The Babylonian Captivity
  • Return of the Jews
  • Outpouring of the Spirit
  • Diaspora
  • Antiochus Epiphanes and the Maccabees
  • Messianic Expectation
  • Religions of the Far East
  • Greco-Roman Religion
  • China, Athens, and Jerusalem
  • Preparation for the Messiah
  • 9. The Authority of the Tanach
  • The New Marcionism
  • The Authority of Tanach for the New Testament Authors
  • The Gospels
  • Paul and Other New Testament Authors
  • The Wisdom and Necessity of Each Book in Tanach
  • Redemption throughout Tanach
  • The Beauty of the Messiah
  • Part 4. The Incarnation
  • 10. Coming into the World
  • Purchase of Redemption
  • The Necessity of the Purchase
  • Conception
  • Birth
  • Timing
  • The Greatness of the Incarnation
  • The Lowliness of the Incarnation
  • The Return of the Spirit
  • Great Notice
  • Jewish Fulfillment
  • 11. The Messiah's Work
  • Satisfaction and Merit
  • Every Part of the Incarnation for Two Purposes
  • Merit
  • Obedience to All Divine Law
  • Perfect Obedience
  • In All Phases of Life
  • The Works of the Messiah
  • The Messiah's Virtues
  • Satisfaction
  • Last Humiliations and Sufferings
  • Completion of the Purchase
  • Part 5. From Christ's Resurrection to the End of the World
  • 12. Resurrection
  • Centrality of the Resurrection
  • Plausibility of the Resurrection
  • Necessity of the Resurrection
  • The Meaning of the Resurrection
  • Bodily Resurrection
  • Salvation and Joy
  • Glory to the Father and the Son
  • Glory to the Saints
  • 13. The Kingdom of God
  • Political and Visible
  • Davidic Kingship
  • Daniel and His Influence
  • In the New Testament
  • The Father's or the Son's?
  • Present or Future?
  • What We Know
  • The Restoration of Israel
  • Gradual Emergence
  • Why Gradual?
  • 14. Ascension and Church
  • Beginning of the New Creation
  • The Ascension's Necessity
  • Building the Church
  • The Mystical Body of the Redeemer
  • Apostles as Foundation
  • Ministry
  • Sacraments
  • Early Liturgy
  • Gifts of the Holy Spirit
  • The New Testament Canon
  • The Apocrypha
  • 15. Mission to Gentiles
  • Massive Numbers of Gentiles
  • Rapid Growth
  • Translation
  • Redemption and Revelation
  • God's Expanding Glory
  • 16. Persecution
  • The First Century
  • Rome's Rationale
  • The Second Century
  • The Third Century
  • The Great Persecution of Diocletian
  • Philosophical Enemies
  • Against Jewish Roots
  • Parting of the Ways
  • Theology of the Cross
  • 17. The Monastic Movement
  • Anthony
  • Pachomius
  • Kinds and Extremes
  • Basil of Caesarea
  • Martin of Tours
  • Jerome
  • Augustine
  • John Cassian
  • Benedict
  • Monasticism and the Way of Redemption
  • 18. Dogma and Theology in the Third and Fourth Centuries
  • Athanasius
  • The Incarnation Was Necessary
  • The Incarnation Really Happened
  • How Athanasius Defeated the Arians
  • The Biblical Challenge
  • Scripture and Tradition
  • Divine and Human … and Compromise
  • The Cappadocians
  • Understanding the Trinity
  • Trinity and Redemption
  • 19. Political Disintegration and Missionary Expansion
  • Revival of the Empire in the East
  • Sanctification of Place
  • Missionary Expansion by Eastern Churches
  • The Rise of the Papacy
  • Gregory the Great
  • The Book of Pastoral Rule
  • Missionary Expansion
  • The City of God and the City of Man
  • Killing the "Christ-Killers"
  • Lessons for the History of Redemption
  • 20. The Iconoclast Controversy
  • John of Damascus
  • The Materiality of Redemption
  • Development of Liturgy and Sacrament
  • Augustine
  • After Augustine
  • 21. The Rise of Islam
  • The Arab Conquests
  • New and Old
  • Muhammad and His Beliefs
  • The Qur' an
  • The Five Pillars
  • Sunnis and Shi'ites
  • Do Christians and Muslims Worship the Same God?
  • God as Warrior: The Crusades
  • Muhammad and Redemption
  • 22. The Medieval West
  • The Church as Thick and Visible Body
  • Tradition as the Bible's Talmud
  • Tradition II
  • Faith and Reason
  • Nature and Grace
  • Justification
  • Natural Law
  • Sacraments
  • Rome versus Jerusalem
  • Redemption and the Medieval West
  • 23. Messiah outside the West
  • Thomas Christians in India
  • Nestorians in China
  • How Africa Shaped Theology and the Church
  • African Roots of Christian Theology
  • The History of Redemption outside the West
  • 24. Reformation and Counter-Reformation
  • Late Medieval Theologians
  • Breakthrough
  • Inner versus Outer
  • Calvin on Justification
  • Anglicans
  • Anabaptists
  • The Council of Trent
  • Causes of Justification
  • Rejection of Protestant Justification
  • Redemption and Justification
  • 25. The Western Church since the Enlightenment
  • The Eighteenth-Century Awakenings: Revivals and the History of Redemption
  • Liberalism and Human Experience
  • Edwards and Schleiermacher on Experience
  • Modern Science and Creation
  • Religious Pluralism and the Uniqueness of the Messiah
  • Looking Back: The Development of Doctrine
  • New Revelation?
  • 26. The Oxford Movement
  • A Brief History
  • Dominant Themes
  • The Oxford Movement and Redemption
  • 27. The Explosion of Pentecostalism
  • Azusa Street
  • Worldwide Spread
  • The Character of the Movement
  • Appeal
  • Who Is the Holy Spirit?
  • The Spirit in the History of Redemption
  • 28. World Wars and Holocaust: The Problem of Evil
  • World Wars
  • Holocaust
  • Moral Relativism?
  • Augustine on Radical Evil
  • Where Was God?
  • The Two Cities
  • Power to the Good and the Wicked
  • Evil in the History of Redemption
  • 29. The Church's New Center of Gravity in Asia and Africa
  • Primal Religions
  • The Communion of the Saints
  • Subordination Is Not Subordinationism
  • Honor and Shame
  • Priestly Mediation
  • Intermediate Powers
  • Continuous Redemption, Contested Pluralism, and a Different Bible
  • Freedom from Enlightenment Categories
  • The Future of the History of Redemption
  • 30. Israel Returned, Renewed, and Restored
  • New Developments after the Reformation
  • The 1960s
  • Zion and the Church
  • One Body of Messiah in Two Expressions
  • Zionism and the Jewish State
  • Israel's Restoration
  • The Grand Story
  • Part 6. The Eschaton
  • 31. The Messiah's Return and Final Judgment
  • The Manner of the Return
  • One Return
  • Soon Is Not Imminent
  • Signs
  • Until Then
  • Judgment and Glory
  • Images of the Judgment
  • The Judges
  • The Judged
  • Degrees of Judgment
  • Sequence
  • Purgatory?
  • Not Satisfaction but Sanctification
  • Preparation
  • A Millennium?
  • 32. The New Heavens and the New Earth
  • The Beginning of Heaven
  • Geography
  • Bodies
  • Animals
  • Beatific Vision
  • Seeing Others' and Our Sins
  • Seeing Hell
  • Levels and Degrees
  • Criteria
  • Envy in Heaven?
  • Work
  • Happiness
  • Prayer and Time
  • Sex in Heaven?
  • Preparing for Heaven
  • He Will Make All Things New
  • 33. God Glorified in the Church Glorified
  • Whose Kingdom?
  • Glory to God
  • Greater than the Creation
  • The End of History
  • History and Redemption in a Higher Order
  • The Glory of the Messiah
  • Subject Index
  • Scripture and Ancient Writings Index

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