Paulos Mar Gregorios: A Reader is a compilation of the selected writings of Paulos Mar Gregorios, a metropolitan of the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church of India and a former President of the World Council of Churches.
Salvation in Continuity deals with big questions--soteriology, intertwined with Christology--of utmost significance for understanding Matthew in its first-century Jewish setting. It argues that Matthew's understanding of salvation in continuity is to be seen as his response to the historical and theological questions of post 70 c.e. Judaism.
This book argues that the church for Augustine is a mystery that is both visible and invisible. Far from discarding the visible community, Augustine places greater emphasis on the empirical church as his thought develops. To demonstrate this, the author traces Augustine's ecclesiology from early writings to later works.
The twentieth century witnessed considerable debate over the question of the possibility of a "Christian philosophy." Two major figures of that revival were Etienne Gilson and Bernard Lonergan, both of whom read Aquinas in quite different ways on key questions. Nonetheless, this work brings these two authors into conversation.
Surveying Jenson's work, this volume lays out the contours and key contributions of Jenson's thought for modern Christology, theological interpretation of Scripture, the doctrine of the Trinity in light of the recent Trinitarian revival, and ecumenical theological relations.
Contemporary scholars often refer to "the event of Vatican II," but what kind of an event was it? In this first book of the new CUA Press series Sacra Doctrina, Matthew Levering leads his readers to see the Council as a "theological event"-a period of confirming and continuing God's self-revelation in Christ into a new historical era for the ......
The Sacraments As Instrumental Causes in the Thomistic Tradition
Recalling the Biblical and Patristic roots of the Church's sacramental identity, the Second Vatican Council calls the Church the 'visible sacrament' of that unity offered through Christ (LG 9). 'Sacrament' in this sense not only describes who the Church is, but what she does. In this regard, the Council Fathers were careful to establish a strong ......
Bill Wylie-Kellermann is a Methodist pastor serving an Episcopal Church in Detroit, the cofounder of Word and World People's School, and faculty of the Seminary Consortium for Urban Pastoral Education (SCUPE) in Chicago).
Christian Identity in Public Theology: an Asian Contribution
D. Preman Niles is one of the outstanding contemporary Asian Christian theologians. He is the author of The Lotus and the Sun: Asian Theological Engagement with Plurality and Power (2013), From East and West: Rethinking Christian Mission (2004), and Faith in a Global Economy: A Primer for Christians (1998).
