Kathryn Tanner’s Christ the Key takes on what has been the knottiest problem in theological anthropology since the Reformation—namely, the relation between nature and grace. Does grace build on human nature, or does it cancel and replace nature entirely? And what exactly is our nature? In what sense, and to what degree, is the human being an imago Dei (image of God)? Christ (...)
April 08, 2011
Books
Cross Purposes
Christ the KeyKathryn TannerCambridge University Press, $29.99, 322 pp.
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