Concern about the [inherited doctrine of vocation and its relevance for modern life] was generated out of the complexities and frustrations especially of industrial life, and it has produced a volu…
All theologians work according to a certain method, even those who have not issued a specific methodological program. There are in every case some presuppositions which precede the beginning of the…
Taken from a series of lectures given by Professor Gustaf Wingren in 1979, this volume addresses creation under natural law, gospel and the Church, and law and the gospel in an attempt to rediscove…
This book is intended to provide non-Swedish readers with a background for some of the trends and emphases in modern Swedish theology. Swedish studies in systematic theology were not generally tran…
In the Church, through word and sacrament, Christ's benefits are made available to all. In the final consummation, when man becomes like God he is in actual fact becoming man. God and man are not f…
This book is ecumenical because it speaks from one Christian tradition to others, 'from faith to faith'. It is personal and challenging, and it presents the great theological issues which it raises…
Running through and informing the discussion of these and other doctrines is one major theme: the relation between creation and redemption. Taking his cue from Irenaeus, Wingren defines this relati…