New Resource: Canon and Creed

New resources arrive almost daily at the Resource Center!  One such resource is this offering in the newest phase of the Interpretation commentary series: Canon and Creed by Robert W. Jenson.

    In this challenging work, Jenson posits that for the sake of its integrity through history, the church must always remember that canon needs creed and creed needs canon and that the church must govern its discourse and practice by their joint import. But how does the church understand and protect the relation between its Scripture and its creedal formulations? No one is more qualified to address that question than Jenson, who shows how canon and creed work together and interact and who argues that neither is sufficient to guide Christian faith without the help of the other.
    This book will enable contemporary interpreters and teachers, pastors, and laity to attend to the questions and understand the tensions that are always present as the church seeks to hold canon and creed together.

  "…In this short book, Jenson renews our sense of shock that Scripture, creed, and theology could ever have become separated in the modern church. What is more, he teaches us how to reweave them, both by precept and by example," commented R. Kendall Soulen, Professor Systematic Theology, Wesley Theological Seminary.

Additions to this Interpretation series will focus on the Bible's most enduring passages and most vital themes, bringing to these topics the insight and faithful wisdom that are longtime Interpretation hallmarks.  Planned titles include: The Ten Commandments, Eschatology, Violence in the Bible, Sacraments, Miracles, Women in the Bible, and many more.  Check out the first in this series from the Resource Center!