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Please note - posting this in the Eastern Orthodox forum. As always, visitors welcome in fellowship but I'm not trying to start a debate on whatever any of us might disagree on.
I've been wanting to ask something - I fear it's going to be a clumsy question, but I hope I can expresss it, because I've been wanting to read more and delve a little deeper into the theological details.
1. Is there a name for branch of theology that deals specifically with "the big picture" ... God's relationship with creation (spiritual and material), details concerning the fall, atonement, redemption, the condition of the material world under sin, and those kinds of things? I hope I'm expressing myself well enough to get an answer, if there is one.
2. Any particular recommended sources for reading such things? Not TOO convoluted and hard to understand, but I'm looking for some detail, and the understanding behind it. If they quote Church fathers, councils, etc. to back up their statements, so much the better, but not absolutely necessary (just might make worthwhile research to have on the shelf in that case as opposed to something to read and learn for now).
I've been wanting to ask this for several days, but just received a reply to a post of mine where I'd like to check what I think I know before replying. I realize a book recommendation would come too late for this discussion, but it does give me more motive to get a bit deeper into it, since I encounter such discussions from time to time. Also, if I'm making no sense in the question, a link to the post that I'm talking about might help explain part of what I'm trying to sort out.
https://www.christianforums.com/thr...blical-narrative.8042762/page-3#post-72250213 (It's currently post 56, which should be a reply to one of my posts which appears just before it, in case your CF sometimes takes you near the post but not to it, as mine sometimes does. )
Thanks so much for any info!
I've been wanting to ask something - I fear it's going to be a clumsy question, but I hope I can expresss it, because I've been wanting to read more and delve a little deeper into the theological details.
1. Is there a name for branch of theology that deals specifically with "the big picture" ... God's relationship with creation (spiritual and material), details concerning the fall, atonement, redemption, the condition of the material world under sin, and those kinds of things? I hope I'm expressing myself well enough to get an answer, if there is one.
2. Any particular recommended sources for reading such things? Not TOO convoluted and hard to understand, but I'm looking for some detail, and the understanding behind it. If they quote Church fathers, councils, etc. to back up their statements, so much the better, but not absolutely necessary (just might make worthwhile research to have on the shelf in that case as opposed to something to read and learn for now).
I've been wanting to ask this for several days, but just received a reply to a post of mine where I'd like to check what I think I know before replying. I realize a book recommendation would come too late for this discussion, but it does give me more motive to get a bit deeper into it, since I encounter such discussions from time to time. Also, if I'm making no sense in the question, a link to the post that I'm talking about might help explain part of what I'm trying to sort out.
https://www.christianforums.com/thr...blical-narrative.8042762/page-3#post-72250213 (It's currently post 56, which should be a reply to one of my posts which appears just before it, in case your CF sometimes takes you near the post but not to it, as mine sometimes does. )
Thanks so much for any info!
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