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The
Theology of Martin Luther
Volumes 1 and 2 |
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Victor Shepherd
Published
by Regent Audio (2001)
Format: Cassette (26 Tapes)
Product Number: RG3174S
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colossus who bestrides the early-to-mid Sixteenth Century,
Luther is the single most formative thinker of the Magisterial
Protestant Reformation. His output is prodigious, his Works
filling more than fifty large volumes. Best known for his 1520
tract, The Freedom of the Christian, Luther wrote on
virtually every topic that touch his understanding of the
Christian faith, from how to correct recalcitrant children to
the manner of Christ's presence in the Eucharist. Unquestionably
a major expositor of Scripture and a master of doctrinal
articulation, he yet knew that amidst all our theological
diligence we must ever hear the "voice" of that babe
whom no one should confuse with the manger in which he lies
(Scripture) yet who can never be found apart from it. |
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Luther's
'Theologia Crucis' |
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Victor Shepherd
Published
by Regent Audio (2003)
Format: Compact Disc (1 CD)
Product Number: RGCD3335C
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Always aware that Word
and Spirit are conjoined, this man of the Word lived intensely in the
Spirit. Few understood better than he that "we wrestle not against
flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers." Assailed
from without and from within throughout his turbulent career as a
Reformer, Luther was intimately with Anfechtung (assault, temptation,
trial). While what he saw contradicted the gospel, his "theology of
the cross" left him hearing his Lord's "voice". Therein
he possessed the comfort of that "caretaker who lies in a cradle
and rests on a virgin's bosom, yet nevertheless sits at the right hand
of God, the Father almighty." |
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Spirituality
of Luther |
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Victor Shepherd
Published by Regent Audio
Format: Compact Disc (4 CD's)
Product Number: RGCD3166S |
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A discussion of
Luther's 'Theologia Crucis' (Theology of the Cross). In
the image of the cross, the world perceives shame, weakness,
folly, condemnation, sin and death. Victor Shepherd contrasts
the world's perceptions of the cross with the truth revealed as
the consumate event of God's glory, strength, wisdom, acquittal,
righteousness and life. He distinguishes 'theologia crucis'
from a 'theologia gloriae', and elaborates the
implications of a theologia crucis.
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Hans
Urs von Balthasar's "Prayer"
A Theological Investigation |
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Victor
Shepherd
Published by Regent Audio
Format: Cassette (4 tapes)
Product Number: RG3154S
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Balthasar's
"Prayer" is a theological investigation that approaches the
topic from several angles: the doctrine of the Trinity, liturgy, the
"encounter" understanding of Martin Buber, the place of
mysticism and the role of reason. Protestants may be surprised at the
Word-orientation of his discussion. All Christians are indebted to this
thinker who exemplified expertise in liturgy, philosophy and theology,
yet was most "at home" on his knees in adoration of his Lord. |
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Philosophy
for Understanding Theology |
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Victor Shepherd
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compact disc from Regent Bookstore
ISBN: RG3041S
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| This series is an exploration of
the vital and dynamic relationship between the study of philosophy and the
study of theology. The course begins with a well-argued defense of the
Christian study of philosophy. Yet, the balance of the material is devoted
to a survey of the more significant interactions between philosophy and
theology down through the centuries.
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Theology
of John Wesley |
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Victor Shepherd
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ISBN: RG3053S |
| Victor Shepherd challenges the
misconception that the Wesleyan tradition is theologically indifferent or
fuzzy. Beginning with a description of how the Wesleyan tradition thinks
theologically, Shepherd then considers John Wesley's own spiritual and
theological development. The majority of the course explores various
Wesleyan theological themes including: salvation by grace, money & the
danger of riches, the arrears of sin in believers, and the final
deliverance of believers.
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The
Theology of John Calvin |
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Victor Shepherd
Regent Audio 24 tapes
ISBN: RG3054S
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| John Calvin was first of all a
preacher and pastor, then an exegete (the best of the Reformation), then a
theologian, and finally a civic leader and city administrator. The
Institutes, however, remains his single largest work and that by which he
is commonly identified. He wrote it both as a primer for students of
theology as well as reassurance for the French king that Protestants were
not seditious. This series seeks to acquaint the listener with the major
aspects of Calvin’s theology as organized in the final edition of his
Institutes of the Christian Religion (1559).
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Calvin
and Predestination |
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Victor
Shepherd
Published by Regent Audio
(2001)
Format: Compact Disc (2 CD's)
Product Number: RGCD3054J
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| Pilloried
and praised in equal measure for his doctrine of predestination,
Calvin knew how the doctrine was supposed to function: it brings
unspeakable comfort to those assailed by persecution from
without and by sin from within. Tirelessly he insisted,
"Predestination, rightly understood, brings no shaking of
faith but rather its best confirmation." (Institutes
3.24.9). Yet when he came to discuss the doctrine itself, Calvin
appeared to contradict himself in such crucial areas as Trinity,
Christology and Pneumatology. Did he understand the doctrine
rightly? Are the doctrinal contradictions merely apparent?
Shepherds lectures articulate both an appreciation of the ethos
of the doctrine in Reformed churchmanship and a criticism of its
problematic logic. |
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The
Spirituality of Wesley |
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Victor
Shepherd
Published
by Regent Audio (2001)
Format: Compact Disc (4 CD's) order
from Regent Bookstore
Product Number: RGCD3171S
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| "God
can do something with sin beyond forgiving it," the
earliest followers of John Wesley reminded each other; "God
can deliver us from its power over us." Forgiveness is
relief of sin's guilt; sanctification or holiness, release from
sin's grip. While not undervaluing justification by faith (this
truth marked the "Aldersgate" turning point in his
life), Wesley highlighted holiness of heart and life as
characterizing the Methodist ethos. A pretended holiness of
heart alone would be more sentimental indulgence; of life alone,
mere legalistic exertion. Justification gives us the right to
heaven, Wesley always insisted, while holiness renders us fit to
"see the Lord" (Hebrews 12:14), the destiny of God's
people that Wesley constantly kept before them. |
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