Creeds in the Making - Alan Richardson

Alan Richardson's Creeds in the Making was first published more than forty years ago in January 1935. After ten reprints it went out of print in 1975 to make way we hoped for a new work which would reflect the scholarship of a new generation. There is however still no short inexpensive paperback available which illustrates the early development of the creeds and Christian doctrine to a general audience in quite the same way as this does with its freshness charm and that almost timeless quality of writing and judgment which was so characteristic of its author. So we are happy that it should be reissued for the 1980s as an introduction to those coming to creeds and doctrine for the first time and as a fitting memorial to a great modern pastor and teacher. From the first reviews Mr Richardson has a true teacher's gift that of making his subject live and relating it to modern experience and modern knowledge of the universe. He tells a story and tells it well. Nor is he content with telling: he explains. He takes the principal doctrines of the Christian creed shows how they came to be defined and what is their lasting value' (CEN). `In six chapters Mr Alan Richardson covers the theology of the creed down to the article of belief in the Holy Ghost. What he gives us is very like a course of lectures to theological students carefully worked out scholarly and full yet simply expressed' (Church Times). Alan Richardson who died in 1975 was Dean of York and before that Professor of Christian Theology in the University of Nottingham.

TITLE: Creeds in the Making

AUTHOR: Alan Richardson

SKU: 9780334002642

PUBLISHER: SCM Press

DATE PUBLISHED: 13/07/2012

PLACE PUBLISHED: United Kingdom

PAGES: 130

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 129 mm x 198 mm