How can Christians think responsibly about ethical matters, and in what way can they make moral claims in a largely non-Christian society? How can people engaged in serious moral disagreement be brought into constructive conversation?James Burtness addresses these questions in five steps. He first describes the connections and disjunctions between ......
Theologians and philosophers are turning again to questions of the meaning, or non-meaning, of the natural world for human self-understanding. The author observes that the book of Job, uses metaphors drawn from the natural world, especially of plants and animals, as raw material for thinking about human suffering.
Published in the year of the one hundredth anniversary of Bonhoeffer's birth, this book documents Bonhoeffer's life under the increasing restraints and fateful events of World War II Germany. It sheds light on his active resistance to and increasing involvement in the conspiracy against the Hitler regime, his arrest, and his long imprisonment.
This book traces the overall historical arc of constructive theology, from proto-movement through the present. As constructive theology is the method of progressive Christian theology today, understanding it is crucial to undertaking the theological task of the present.
Missionary Initiative and Indigenous Agency in the Making of World Christianity
Challenging other narratives of mission history, Skreslet offers a new speech-act theory approach to the modern roots of World Christianity that differentiates between what a missionary might intend to communicate and the effects of what has been said or actions taken both in the moment and over time.
Coordinated by Serene Jones of Yale Divinity School and Paul Lakeland of Fairfield University, fifty of North America's top teaching theologians (members of the Workgroup on Constructive Christian Theology) have devised a text that allows students to experience the deeper point of theological questions, to delve into the fractures and ......
Cindy S. Lee calls for spiritual directors to serve as contemplative witnesses to injustices when BIPOC people's sacredness is dismissed. Contemplative Witnessing equips spiritual directors who want to help BIPOC people cultivate a liberating spirituality so we can encounter restorative, divine movements in and around ourselves.
While many know of the signal contributions of such twentieth-century giants as Paul Tillich or Karl Barth or Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the important work since their time often goes unremarked until some major controversy erupts. Here is a smart and helpful survey of the chief approaches and thinkers in today's understanding of the person, ......
