{"product_id":"9781621897835","title":"Church Doctrine, Volume 1: Canon","description":"The present volume is the first in a five-volume study of church doctrine.  The multivolume set will cover the major parts of church doctrine: Canon, God, Creation, Reconciliation, and Redemption.  This first volume begins with an introduction on why doctrine matters, which stresses the ecumenical, global, and above all biblical horizons of church doctrine as a primary expression of Christian witness.   The purpose of this volume is to begin a search for an alternative to the many theologies available on the religious left and the religious right. Where doctrine is absent, the church is held captive to ideology; the same is as true among conservatives as it is among liberals.  The present work is an attempt to struggle toward the meaning of orthodoxy in church doctrine--an orthodoxy that is never merely a given, but which always has to be sought and found again and again in each new generation of the church.  Church doctrine is not a luxury, but a necessity for the living community of faith, by which its witness in word and deed is tested against the one true measure of Christ the risen Lord.","brand":"Wipf \u0026 Stock Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47177610395888,"sku":"9781621897835","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781621897835_p0.jpg?v=1763861236","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781621897835","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}