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Partaking of God
Trinity, Evolution, and Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
The natural world around us is in crisis. We know it has a dynamic, evolutionary character. How might we understand this world in relationship to God?
Partaking of God builds on the foundations of the dynamic trinitarian theology of Athanasius. It develops into a theology of the Word as the...
Humble Confidence
Spiritual and Pastoral Guidance from Karl Rahner
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
The influential German Jesuit theologian, Karl Rahner (1904–84), famously claimed that the more scientific theology is the more spiritually and pastorally relevant it will be. This book attempts to demonstrate the truth of this claim by drawing together resources scattered throughout Rahner’s...
Who is Jesus?
An Introduction to Christology
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Who is Jesus? This is the fundamental question for christology. The earliest Christians used various titles, most of them drawn from the Old Testament or Hebrew Scriptures, to express their faith in Jesus. They called him prophet, teacher, Messiah, Son of David, Son of Man, Lord, Son of God, Word...
by William P. Loewe
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
Why did some people want Jesus dead, while others came to honor him as the Christ? What does it mean to say that he was raised," and how did this belief get started? What about the classical expressions of Jesus' religious significance? Where did they come from and what do they mean? What does...
Luke
The Elite Evangelist
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Human beings are embedded in a set of social relations. A social network is one way of conceiving that set of relations in terms of a number of persons connected to one another by varying degrees of relatedness. In the early Jesus group documents featuring Paul and coworkers, it takes little effort...
A Spirituality of Perfection
Faith in Action in the Letter of James
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
2000 Catholic Press Association Award Winner!
Throughout this century the Epistle of James has been viewed consistently as a disjointed set of instructions. In A Spirituality of Perfection Patrick Hartin differs from this approach by showing that the call for perfection" provides a unifying...
One in Christ
Virgil Michel, Louis-Marie Chauvet, and Mystical Body Theology
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
What happened to the mystical body?
A theology that stoked much theological creativity in the first half of the twentieth century both in Europe and in the United States had receded by the latter half of the century. One in Christ explores the theology of the mystical body of Christ as developed...
Christ's Gift, Our Response
Martin Luther and Louis-Marie Chauvet on the Connection between Sacraments and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Sacramental theology has often been a challenging area of conversation between Catholics and Protestants. In Christ’s Gift, Our Response, Benjamin Durheim envisions a collaborative way forward, forging a conversation between two contemporary approaches to the connection between sacraments and ethics.
Drawing...
Ecclesiology and Postmodernity
Questions for the Church in Our Time
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2017
What in the world is postmodernity? Is it the dominant reality today? If it is, what does it mean to be a church in a postmodern world? It seems that the church had a difficult time coming to terms with a modern world, an era ruled by the claims of scientific certainty. Having done so, more or less,...
Beyond Dogmatism and Innocence
Hermeneutics, Critique, and Catholic Theology
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Behind every important development in Catholic doctrine and practice since the beginning of the modern period have been debates about the interpretation of Christianity’s classic texts and traditions and their ideological and practical implications.
Over the past century there have been breakthroughs...
Upward
Faith, Church, and the Ascension of Christ
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
The ascension of Christ is usually taken for granted and often neglected. Indeed, it represents that forgotten dimension of faith in its reach beyond the categories, concepts, and concerns of our mundane existence, even in the church. This book is written with the conviction that there are further...
Rethinking Christian Forgiveness
Theological, Philosophical, and Psychological Explorations
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2015
Is there such a thing as “Christian Forgiveness”? Christians speak as though there is. But what would it be? How would it differ from forgiveness as a basic human enactment? And if there is a distinctive Christian forgiveness, what might it have to say to our world today? To answer these questions,...
Sustaining the Hope for Unity
Ecumenical dialogue in a Postmodern World
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
What is unity and how does it serve as a goal for ecumenical dialogue? How can churches, ecumenical organizations, ministers, and theologians effectively approach this goal in the twenty-first century? Sustaining the Hope for Unity offers a methodological reflection on these questions using insights...
Creation Is Groaning
Biblical and Theological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
If, as some scholars attest, Christianity has been complicit in the destruction of the environment, then Christianity can and must also have a role in changing human behavior in a way that helps to solve this massive problem. In Creation is Groaning, a set of highly regarded theologians and Scripture...