The Making of Christian Doctrine: A study in the Principles of Early Doctrinal Development by Maurice Wiles (HQ403)

Published 1975: Hardcover / Very Good Condition

Original green cloth with gilt titles on the spine and original dust jacket. 184 very clean and bright pages, speckled top edge. Slight shelf wear on dust jacket consistent with age.

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Professor Wiles asks how the early Church fathers' doctrinal affirmations - expressed for example in the Nicene Creed and Chalcedonian Definition - remain valid today when the framework of the fathers' learning and discourse has disappeared. Doctrine was necessary, he argues, to answer objections to Christianity in a largely non-Christian world, to tackle the problem of heresy and to satisfy the desire of Christians to express their faith more deeply. He also considers the sources of doctrinal reasoning - Scripture, the practice of worship and the nature of salvation. These sources are still vital to any development of Christian doctrine today and the author concludes his study with a call for 'the continuation of the same task of interpreting the Church's Scriptures, her worship and her experience of salvation'.

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