Professing the Faith: Christian Theology in a North American Context

by Douglas John Hall (Editor)

What does it mean to profess the faith as North American Christians at the end of the second millennium? What is Christian theology as consciously crafted in light of the distinctive history, culture, and experience of North America? Hall marshalls doctrinal resources for a critical, creative response that stresses God's necessary involvement in an unfinished, dynamic, suffering world.

Douglas Hall looks to the heart of Christian faith—its teaching about God, Creatures, and Christ—to articulate a critical and creative response to contemporary culture. The core of Hall's trilogy, Professing the Faith is a fresh and frank engagement of the North American context by one of the continent's finest religious thinkers.

560 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1993

About the author

Douglas John Hall was an Canadian emeritus professor of theology at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, and a minister of the United Church of Canada. Prior to joining the McGill Faculty of Religious Studies in 1975 he was MacDougald Professor of Systematic Theology at St Andrew's College in the University of Saskatchewan (1965–1975), Principal of St Paul's College in the University of Waterloo (1962–1965), and minister of St Andrew's Church in Blind River, Ontario (1960–1962).

Reviews

[JD Veer · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm doing my Masters on this (quite friendly, I might add,) author.

It is divided in three parts: theology, anthropology, and christology. He explores the three parts with three different methodologies: historical, critical and constructive. The historical and critical methodologies of all three parts aren't as interesting as the constructive side of all the three parts!