Accountability to God Hardback

by Andrew B. (Senior Lecturer in Theology, Senior Lecturer in Theology, University of St Andr Torrance

Part of the Oxford Studies in Analytic Theology series

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Description

The word 'accountability' is often used without much thought being given to what precisely it means.

It is especially common in Christian circles, where there is frequent talk about being accountable to God, yet, still, without a clear grasp of this word.

Accountability to God proposes, develops, and analyses two concepts of accountability as both a condition and a virtue.

It also engineers these concepts to make them particularly apt for thinking about (1) accountability to God and (2) other relationships of accountability that exist under God.

In its first part, the book builds a theological and general case for its particular views of accountability.

In its second, it engages in the constructive work of developing a theology of accountability in relation to the doctrines of the Trinity, participation in Christ, the Fall, the fear of God, reconciliation, baptism, repentance, faith, and conversion.

In developing this theology, Torrance interacts with a number of major theologians, such as the Apostle Paul, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and Karl Barth.

He also extensively engages with contemporary work in analytic philosophy, systematic theology (including analytic theology), biblical studies, and psychology.

By bringing a diverse range of scholarship into discussion, Accountability to God is the first book to focus specifically on what it means to be accountable to God.

It thereby proposes a more positive, constructive, and theologically apt way to think about accountability.