Christian Reflections on the Foundations of Ethics
An introduction to ethical theory from a Christian perspective, The Shape of the Good examines the connection between moral theory, theology, metaphysics and approaches standard ethical theories from the standpoint of Christian theology.
A taut analysis of black liberation theology, connecting scholarship to practical congregational ministry. The chapters of this book focus on liberation and evangelism, the urban community, and black theology as well as church administration, worship, education, and self-esteem.
The first English translation of Troeltsch's Glaubenslehre. The first attempt to do systematic theology from a deep Christian commitment with full awareness of Christianity's social and historical relativity.
In Faithful Persuasion David S. Cunningham offers the contemporary era's first sustained account of the relationship between rhetoric and Christian theology. Cunningham argues that Christian thinkers should abandon their attempts to codify argumentation within the canons of formal logic and suggests that they should instead come to a more organic ......
Essays on Neoplatonism and Christianity in Honor of John O'Meara
Marking John O'Meara's retirement from the Chair of Latin at University College, Dublin, this collection of essays by his colleagues concentrates on two authors with whom he is particularly associated: Augustine and Eriugena, both of whom tries to reconcile in his own way the Christian faith with the wisdom of the Graeco-Roman world.
Focusing on German Catholic systematic and fundamental theology from the 1860s to the onset of World War I, this volume begins with an introduction to the cultural and political patterns of the period and goes on to examine competing Catholic theologies and the work of individual theologians.
The Ambiguous Ecological Promise of Christian Theology
The Travail of Nature shows that the theological tradition in the West is neither ecologically bankrupt, as some of its popular and scholarly critics have maintained, nor replete with immediately accessible, albeit long-forgotten, ecological riches hidden everywhere in its deeper vaults, as some contemporary Christians, who are profoundly troubled ......
"This is a fascinating study which confirms that there is as much support in the Fathers as in heterodox sources - though different! - for the idea of a suffering God." - Louis Dupre, Yale University "Joseph Hallman here makes a significant contribution to the perennial theological dilemma, how can an unchanging God relate to a changing ......
A study of Cardinal John Henry Newman, this book covers such topics as faith, revelation, redemption, the church, sacraments and life after death. The author aims to provide a practical approach to the theology of Cardinal Newman.
