Social God And The Relational Self

This is the first of six volumes in “The Matrix of Christian Theology.” Rather than being an exhaustive exposition of the traditional categories in a systematic theology, “The Matrix of Christian Theology” seeks to articulate the central contours of the Christian belief mosaic that engages the challenges of today’s context. The Social God and the Relational Self is the volume on the doctrine of humanity, which views humans in terms of their relation to God. Grenz examines the cultural foundations behind the ways Christians have read the biblical concept of the imago dei in order to identify a reading of the biblical concept that can have interpretive power in the postmodern context. Future volumes will be on God, Christology, the Holy Spirit, ecclesiology, and eschatology.