Thomas C. Oden
Thomas C. Oden teaches theology and ethics at the Theology School,
Drew University. He is arguably the preeminent theologian in the United
Methodist Church today, and their most prolific writer.
His
Works
His
works and theology briefly described and examined
Chairman
of The Institute on Religion and Democracy
Among diseases of the history of sin that continue to plague the church
and resist its full growth are: the partisan spirit that would divide
it, the heretical spirit that would lead it to distort or forget apostolic
teaching, the antinomian spirit that turns Christian liberty into libertinism,
the legalistic spirit that would turn grace into law, the naturalistic
spirit that would treat grace as a determinant of nature. Despite these
infirmities and challenges, which are permitted by a kind Providence
to strengthen the church and enable it to grow stronger, the body lives
on, the vine sends forth new shoots, the Spirit enlivens and heals,
the Head continues to guide and order the whole organism (John 15:1-5;
Col. 1:18).
Excerpted from: Defending
the Faith by Thomas C. Oden
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