Classical virtue ethics, exemplified by Aristotle (d. 322 BC), asked: what can we know of human nature and the virtues by which it is perfected in order to live well? Dominant ethical theories today generally avoid the question of human nature, taking deontological (non-metaphysical) or utilitarian (maximizing perceived social benefit) approaches. ......
God-The World's Future has been a proven textbook in systematic theology for over twenty years. This third edition is explicitly crafted to address our postmodern context and explains the whole body of Christian historical doctrine from within a "proleptic" framework.
After an exposition of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, this book proposes the following answer: trusting in the God of grace relieves anxiety and provides a divine vocation that transcends our moral universe with the promise of forgiveness, renewal, and resurrection.
Suitable for students and faculty pursuing the developments in Christian and religious ethics, publishing refereed scholarly articles - preeminent source for further research. This book contains reviews of the scholarship available.
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, 2012, titled: Pastcanonical doctrinal development as hermeneutical phenomenon.
A Free Corrector evaluates Colin Guntons treatment of Augustines legacy on the Trinity and the doctrine of creation. Gunton claimed that Augustines work ultimately contributed to a host of problems for the Western tradition. Joshua McNall addresses this in conjunction with Guntons argument regarding Augustines afterlife. In the end, A Free ......
God's Relationship to Time in the Theology of Karl Barth
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Southern Methodist University, 2010 under title: Perichoretic eternality: God's relationship to time in Karl Barth's Church dogmatics.
A Free Corrector evaluates Colin Gunton's controversial treatment of Augustine's theological legacy. While others have critiqued Gunton's negative reading of Augustine, McNall goes further in addressing Gunton's argument regarding Augustine's "afterlife" (that is, the appropriation of Augustine by crucial figures from the medieval era to the dawn ......
What did ancient Christians and pagans believe makes the unity of the nations? Just as he began serving as a major adviser at the Second Vatican Council in 1962, Joseph Ratzinger (the future Pope Benedict XVI) studied this question in lectures delivered at Austria's University of Salzburg. These lectures, originally published in German, are now ......
