Evangelical Theological Method

How should one approach the task of theology? The question of methodology is increasingly one of interest among theologians, who recognize that the very manner in which we approach theology informs both the questions we ask and the conclusions we reach. This volume in IVP's Spectrum Multiview series brings together five evangelical theologians with distinctly different approaches to the theological task. After presenting the approaches-which include appeals to Scripture, context, missions, interdisciplinary studies, and dogmatics-each contributor responds to the other views. Emerging from this theological conversation is an awareness of our methodological commitments and the benefits that each approach can bring to the theological task. Contributors: - Sung Wook Chung - John R. Franke - Telford C. Work - Victor Ifeanyi Ezigbo - Paul Louis MetzgerSpectrum Multiview Books offer a range of viewpoints on contested topics within Christianity, giving contributors the opportunity to present their position and also respond to others in this dynamic publishing format.

Stanley E. Porter (PhD, University of Sheffield) is president, dean, professor of New Testament, and Roy A. Hope Chair in Christian Worldview at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of twenty-eight books on various topics in New Testament and related subjects, including Hermeneutics: An Introduction to Interpretive Theory (with Jason C. Robinson), and he has edited over eighty volumes, including Biblical Hermeneutics: Five Views (with Beth M. Stovell). Porter has also published over three hundred articles, chapters, and related writings. Steven M. Studebaker (PhD, Marquette University) is the Howard and Shirley Bentall Chair in Evangelical Thought and associate professor of systematic and historical theology at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of A Pentecostal Political Theology for American Renewal: Spirit of the Kingdoms, Citizens of the Cities, and From Pentecost to the Triune God: A Pentecostal Trinitarian Theology, as well as several other books on Jonathan Edwards's trinitarian theology and Pentecostal theology.