Argues that there is an identity crisis in modern Christian theology, and suggests a middle ground between fundamentalism and liberalism

Tracking the Maze: Finding Our Way Through Modern Theology from an Evangelical Perspective

Pinnock, Clark H.

History

Harpercollins

Religious pluralism is the greatest challenge facing Christianity in today's Western culture. The belief that Christ is the only way to God is being challenged, and increasingly Christianity is seen as just one among many valid paths to God.
In Four Views on Salvation in a Pluralistic World, four perspectives are presented by their major proponents:
<ul>
<li>
Normative Pluralism: All ethical religions lead to God (John Hick)</li>
<li>
Inclusivism: Salvation is universally available, but is established by and leads to Christ (Clark Pinnock)</li>
<li>
Salvation in Christ: Agnosticism regarding those who haven't heard the gospel (Alister McGrath)</li>
<li>
Salvation in Christ Alone: Salvation depends on explicit personal faith in Jesus Christ alone (R. Douglas Geivett and W. Gary Phillips)</li>
</ul>
This book allows each contributor to not only present the case for his view, but also to critique and respond to the critiques of the other contributors.
The Counterpoints series provides a forum for comparison and critique of different views—both Christian and non-Christian—on important theological issues.

Four Views on Salvation in a Pluralistic World

Christian Books & Bibles

McGRATH, Alister E.

Christian Living

Zondervan Academic

The Grace of God, the Will of Man: A Case for Armenianism was written by an impressive team of evangelical scholars from many traditions. This work carries on the ancient debate about the scope of God's saving purposes and the manner of his effecting salvation in human beings. It defends the proposition that God is a dynamic personal Agent who respects the freedom he chose to delegate to his human creatures and relates sensitively to us in the outworking of his plans for the whole of history. God is love and expresses his power by working salvation among us under conditions of genuine mutuality. The contributors to this volume are Christian scholars who are eager to present this evangelical model as an alternative to deterministic theology. They do not claim to have said the last word on the subject but want at least to keep the ball of theological discussion in play.

Grace of God, the Will of Man, The

Theology

Zondervan

This book is a plea for a constructive liberal/conservative dialogue by demonstrating what such an exchange could be like. Assuming that liberal and conservative Christians are abysmally ignorant about each other, that each has a great deal to learn from the other, and that dialogue between the two will strengthen them individually, Clark Pinnock concludes that the renewed vitality of Christianity in today's world hinges in an important way on whether a genuine conservative/liberal dialogue comes into being.

Theological Crossfire: An Evangelical Liberal Dialogue

Brown, Delwin

Religion & Spirituality

Here is a ground-breaking book that suggests some new possibilities of interpretation around the challenge of religious pluralism. The subject of the book is the finality of Jesus Christ in a world of different religions. Pinnock explains succinctly the factors that have made religious pluralism a major challenge for Christian theology. Then he places the issue in the history of doctrine leading up to the present day. Five chapters follow this introductory material and cover the field very systematically: The first chapter deals with God's global reach in salvation and shows that God is concerned for all people in all nations; chapter two highlights the Christology through which God is known to be the God of grace; the third chapter shows how the Bible views other religions as they presently exist and how we can understand them; chapter four deals with religions as non-static entities and the object of divine power bringing in the kingdom; and the fifth chapter discusses eschatology, or how it is possible to understand salvation in generous and large terms. A Wideness in God's Mercy is one of the very few books to present a strong proposal on the issue of religious pluralism while maintaining a rock-solid evangelical stance. It will no doubt launch a decade of discussion on a higher level among Christians.

A Wideness in God's Mercy: The Finality Of Jesus Christ In A World Of Religions

This balanced approach to understanding the inspiration and authority of the Bible presents a "middle" position on biblical inerrancy that steers clear of pitfalls common to both ends of the spectrum. The authors defend the full authority and trustworthiness of the Bible against those who limit or dismiss its authority, yet they also reject the oversimplifications and false dichotomies found in fundamentalist appeals to verbal inerrancy in defense of the Bible's authority. They consider the whole doctrine of Scripture, including divine authority, human character, and spiritual dynamic, to resolve the biblical authority debate and provide the searching believer a discerning, functional trust in the Bible's relevance to everyday life. First published over twenty years ago--but all the more relevant for today's context--The Scripture Principle has now been revised to speak with new clarity on this perennial issue.

Scripture Principle, The,: Reclaiming the Full Authority of the Bible

Callen, Barry L.

Baker Academic

An extremely pertinent commentary on Galatians for both minister and student. As the Galatians were unsettled by the opinions of false teachers, so many Christians today are uneasy-thanks to the treacherous utterances of some contemporary theologians. Clark Pinnock delves into the central thought of the letter that "Salvation is a matter of believing, not achieving" clearly stressing faith in Christ as Savior and his belief in the Bible as God's inerrant Word.

Truth on fire;: The message of Galatians

Baker Book House

Live now, brother,

MOODY PRESS *

In this book advocates of both process and free-will theism come together for the first time to describe their respective theological perspectives and enter into constructive dialogue with each other. Featuring two of today's best philosophers-David R. Griffin representing process theology and William Hasker representing free-will theism- as well as theologians interested in both views, this volume provides a fully orbed discussion of these two vital theological positions.

Searching for an Adequate God: A Dialogue between Process and Free Will Theists

Cobb, John B.

Wm. B. Eerdmans-Lightning Source

Flame of Love: A Theology of the Holy Spirit

<ul><li>A 1997 Christianity Today Book of the Year</li></ul> In what may be regarded as his magnum opus, Clark Pinnock here turns attention to the vital Christian doctrine of the Holy Spirit. Writing out of wide learning and deep personal passion, he shows us the way to restore the oft-neglected Spirit to centrality in the life and witness of the church. Pinnock explores the doctrine of the Spirit in relation to other key doctrines such as the Trinity, creation, Christology and the church. Never one to duck the difficult or sensitive questions, he also examines issues of the Spirit's universality, gender language for the Spirit, and charismatic gifts. Pinnock intends his book to be catholic (in the sense of respecting the beliefs and worship of the historic church) and evangelical (drawing particularly on the heritage of the Reformation). Always in sight is the mission of the church, for "people want to meet the real and living God and will not be satisfied with a religion that only preaches and moralizes." He concludes, "Only by attending to the Spirit can we move beyond sterile rationalist religion in the direction of recovering the sense of intimacy and immediacy for which our generation--and every generation--longs."

IVP Academic

See the best price to sell, buy, or rent books by Pinnock, Clark H.. BookScouter helps to compare book prices from 25+ online bookstores and 30+ buyback vendors with a single search.

Books by Pinnock, Clark H.