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• A fully revised new edition of the bestselling introductory textbook in Christian theology
  
• Features new sections on monastic schools of theology, the English Reformation, and Radical Orthodoxy
  
• Includes increased discussion of women in the early Church, feminist theology, Eastern Orthodox theology and history, and Catholic teachings on the Doctrine of the Church
  
• Incorporates user-friendly key terms sections, and study questions
  
• Supported by a website at www.blackwellpublishing.com/mcgrath, containing additional lecturer resources.

• Contains 361 readings, drawn from 233 different sources, spread throughout the 2,000 years of Christian history.
  
• Exceptionally user-friendly: every reading is accompanied its own introduction, commentary, and study questions.
  
• Now includes increased representation of Catholicism, Orthodoxy and women writers.
  
• A new section provides a “bird’s-eye” view of the historical development of Christian theology, allowing users to locate a reading against its historical context.
  
• Additional lecturer resources are available at the accompanying website: www.blackwellpublishing.com/mcgrath.

• Includes a major new chapter on sacraments and new sections on core topics, including the problem of suffering, the theology of sin, concepts of heaven, and views of the millennium


• Uses the Apostle’s Creed as a framework to introduce readers to key theological issues, such as God, Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit, faith, creation, salvation, atonement, religious history and heaven
  
• Contains within each chapter an overview of one of these themes, presents relevant biblical passages, and summarizes the contribution of one major theologian
  
• Written by one of the world’s leading theologians for anyone taking a first short course in Christian theology
  
• Can be used alongside McGrath's Theology: The Basic Readings for a complete overview of the field.

In this newly revised and expanded edition, Grant Osborne provides seminary students and working pastors with the full set of tools they need to move from sound exegesis to the development of biblical and systematic theologies and to the preparation of sound, biblical sermons.

Osborne contends that hermeneutics is a spiral from text to context a movement between the horizon of the text and the horizon of the reader that spirals nearer and nearer toward the intended meaning of the text and its significance for today.

Well-established as the standard evangelical work in the field since its first publication in 1991, The Hermeneutical Spiral has been updated to meet the needs of a new generation of students and pastors. Thorough revisions have been made throughout, new chapters have been added on Old Testament law and the use of the Old Testament in the New, and the bibliography has been thoroughly updated.

• Seminary students and professors

• Comprehensive.
• Up to Date.
• Includes illustrative charts and diagrams.
• Covers recent developments in criticism and other fields relevant to biblical hermeneutics.
• Moves from exegesis to theology to sermon preparation.
• Original edition won 1993 Christianity Today Critics' Choice Award.
• Now thoroughly revised throughout with two new chapters covering Old Testament law and the use of the Old Testament in the New.