What Christians believe

Oxford University Press

2019

XVI, 326 p.

9780190855284

Part one: Introduction and Overview --1. Who are "Christians"?. The creeds ; What do the creeds mean? ; "Mere Christiantity" --2. God and cross-cultural communication. Jesus's "incarnation" in Jewish culture ; Jewish cultural scripts and the interpretation of the Bible ; Cross-cultural communication and the concept of "hell" --3 God and language. Can we say something true about God with ordinary human words? ; Can we say somthing true about God with words like "want" and "feel"? ; How did Jesus speak about God? ; "Speaking in tongues" and human understanding --4. Minimal English. What is minimal English? ; Universal semantic primes ; Universal semantic molecules ; Non-universal words in minimal English ; Expanding the lexicon of minimal English through the "called-mechanism" ; Metaphors and minimal English --Part two: The story of God and people --Part three: Brief commentaries on the chapters of part II --Appendices. A. On the word "forgiveness" ; B. On the word "love" ; C. On the word hilastērion.

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