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    Christ at the Center: Interviews With Paul Molnar
    Christ at the Center: Interviews With Paul Molnar
    Christ at the Center: Interviews With Paul Molnar
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    Christ at the Center: Interviews With Paul Molnar

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    This e-book compiles the transcripts of four interviews done for the video series You're Included, published by Grace Communion International. In these interviews, Paul Molnar, professor of systematic theology at St. John's University in New York, talks about the importance of keeping Christ at the center of our theology, the importance of his incarnation, the role of our will and God's decisions, and the role of grace in our salvation.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGrace Communion International
    Release dateJul 26, 2016
    ISBN9781370841349
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      Christ at the Center - Paul Molnar

      Christ at the Center:

      Interviews With Paul Molnar

      Copyright 2016 Grace Communion International

      Published by Grace Communion International

      Table of Contents

      Keeping Christ at the Center

      God Chose to Enter Our Humanity

      God’s Will and Our Decisions

      The Giver and the Gift

      About the Publisher

      Grace Communion Seminary

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      Introduction

      This is a transcript of interviews conducted as part of the You’re Included series, sponsored by Grace Communion International. We have more than 130 interviews available. You may watch them or download video or audio at https://learn.gcs.edu/course/view.php?id=58. Donations in support of this ministry may be made at https://www.gci.org/online-giving/.

      Grace Communion International is in broad agreement with the theology of the people we interview, but GCI does not endorse every detail of every interview. The opinions expressed are those of the interviewees. We thank them for their time and their willingness to participate.

      Please understand that when people speak, thoughts are not always put into well-formed sentences, and sometimes thoughts are not completed. In the following transcripts, we have removed occasional words that did not seem to contribute any meaning to the sentence. In some cases we could not figure out what word was intended. We apologize for any transcription errors, and if you notice any, we welcome your assistance.

      Our guest in the following interviews is Paul Molnar, professor of systematic theology at St. John’s University in New York. He received his PhD from Fordham University in 1980. He is author of:

      Divine Freedom and the Doctrine of the Immanent Trinity

      Faith, Freedom, and the Spirit: The Economic Trinity in Barth, Torrance, and Contemporary Theology

      Freedom, Necessity, and the Knowledge of God: in Conversation with Karl Barth and Thomas F. Torrance

      Incarnation and Resurrection: Toward a Contemporary Understanding

      Karl Barth and the Theology of the Lord’s Supper

      Thomas F. Torrance: Theologian of the Trinity

      T&T Clark Handbook of Thomas F. Torrance (co-edited with Myk Habets)

      Two Views on the Doctrine of the Trinity (contributor)

      The interviews were conducted by J. Michael Feazell, D.Min., former vice president of Grace Communion International.

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      Keeping Christ at the Center

      J. Michael Feazell: Paul Molnar is a Catholic theologian and Professor of Systematic Theology at St. John’s University in New York. He is author of

      * Thomas F. Torrance: Theologian of the Trinity,

      * Incarnation and Resurrection, and

      * Divine Freedom and the Doctrine of the Immanent Trinity: In Dialog with Karl Barth and Contemporary Theology.

      Dr. Molnar is also editor of the Karl Barth Society of North America newsletter and [at the time of the interview] president of the Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship.

      It’s a pleasure to have you with us today.

      Paul Molnar: My pleasure.

      JMF: We wanted to begin by talking about your book, Thomas F. Torrance: Theologian of the Trinity. Tell us how you came to know Thomas Torrance and how you came to write the book.

      PM: It started in the early 1980s when I read his book Reality and Evangelical Theology — that was my first exposure to Torrance’s writing, and I enjoyed it a lot. I was at a theological conference and someone asked who your favorite theologian was, and most people at the conference had Karl Rahner as their favorite theologian, so I said, My favorite theologian is Thomas F. Torrance. I had read that book, and then I had read a couple others besides, when I got that question. The person looked at me like I had three heads, because he had never heard of Thomas F. Torrance.

      Subsequently I read most of his writings, and I was quite impressed. For good reason, Torrance is thought of as the most important British theologian of the 20th century. He taught for many years at the University of Edinburgh. He didn’t formally teach the doctrine of the Trinity for political reasons (because another professor was teaching that course), but he did work the doctrine into all of his lectures in Christology and so on. He didn’t write his books on the Trinity until after he retired — his two major works on the Trinity.

      What impressed me the most about Torrance was his vast knowledge of patristic theology and his ability to not only demonstrate a clear understanding of the doctrine of the Trinity, but to show how the doctrine of the Trinity functions, enlightening us in our knowledge of Christ, the Incarnation, atonement, redemption, ascension, resurrection, the church, and the sacraments.

      The reason I came to write this book was to show that side of Torrance which I was most interested in — his dogmatic theology. Torrance is famous for doing work in theology and science, which is also very important and very good, but my special emphasis in this book was looking at his dogmatic theology, showing how Trinitarian thinking shaped all of his doctrines.

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