Rethinking Fundamental Theology

Author : Gerald O'Collins
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191620602
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Fundamental Theology written by Gerald O'Collins and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book identifies the distinguishing features of fundamental theology, as distinct from philosophical theology, natural theology, apologetics, and other similar disciplines. Addressing the potential for confusion about basic Christian claims and beliefs, Gerald O'Collins sets out to relaunch fundamental theology as a discipline by presenting a coherent vision of basic theological questions and positions that lay the ground for work in specific areas of systematic theology. Rethinking Fundamental Theology examines central theological questions: about God, human experience and, specifically, religious experience; the divine revelation coming through the history of Israel and through the life, death and resurrection of Jesus; human faith that responds to revelation; the nature of tradition that transmits the record and reality of revelation; the structure of biblical inspiration and truth, as well as basic issues concerned with the formation of the canon; the founding of the Church with some leadership structures; the relationship between Christ's revelation and the faith of those who follow other religions. O'Collins concludes with some reflections on theological method. Written with the scholarship and accessibility for which O'Collins is known and valued, this book will relaunch fundamental theology as a distinct and necessary discipline in faculties and departments of theology and religious studies around the world.

Author : Gerald O'Collins
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1579106765
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fundamental Theology written by Gerald O'Collins and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2001-06-26 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an updated investigation of the central themes of fundamental theology: revelation, hermeneutics, faith and its formulations, and the role of authoritative teaching in the Church. In a clear and balanced manner, Gerald O'Collins sums up the best of Roman Catholic teaching since Vatican II. Students and others who are reflecting on the nature of their Christian belief will find this book invaluable. The unique quality of this work, however, is its foundation in human experience. Before he probes the theological issues, O'Collins lays down a groundwork for understanding experience. It is not an attempt to turn fundamental theology into a subjective science, but it is a recognition that the reality of God always intersects with self-conscious human beings. While it does not touch all of the themes of fundamental theology, the book does provide in-depth treatment of revelation, tradition, and inspiration.

Author : Brent Adkins
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441188258
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Philosophy and Theology with Deleuze written by Brent Adkins and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debate between faith and reason has been a dominant feature of Western thought for more than two millennia. This book takes up the problem of the relation between philosophy and theology and proposes that this relation can be reconceived if both philosophy and theology are seen as different ways of organising affects. Brent Adkins and Paul R. Hinlicky break new ground in this timely debate in two ways. Firstly, they lay bare the contemporary dependence on Kant and propose that our Kantian inheritance leaves us with an insuperable dualism. Secondly, the authors argue that the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze provides a way of resolving the debate between faith and reason that does justice to philosophy and theology by reconceiving of both as assemblages. Deleuze's philosophy differentiates domains of thought in terms of what they create. This seems like a particularly fruitful way to pursue the problem of the relations among philosophy and theology because it allows their distinction without at the same time placing them in opposition to one another.

Author : Giulio Maspero
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0567468313
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Trinitarian Theology written by Giulio Maspero and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book aims at showing the most important topics and paradigms in modern Trinitarian theology. It is supposed to be a comprehensive guide to the many traces of development of Trinitarian faith. As such it is thought to systematize the variety of contemporary approaches to the field of Trinitarian theology in the present philosophical-cultural context. The main goal of the publication is not only a description of what happened to Trinitarian theology in the modern age. It is rather to indicate the typically modern specificity of the Trinitarian debate and - first of all - to encourage development in the main areas and issues of this subject.

Author : Keith E. Johnson
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 083083902X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the Trinity and Religious Pluralism written by Keith E. Johnson and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2011-09-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founding his argument on a close reading of St. Augustine?s De Trinitate, Keith Johnson critiques four recent attempts to construct a pluralistic theology of religions out of the orthodox doctrine of the Trinity.

Author : Keith Ward
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 178074465X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Re-thinking Christianity written by Keith Ward and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christian faith is often charged with being outmoded and anachronistic. A monolithic institution rooted in the past, many critics have claimed that it lacks the resources to adapt to modern society's needs and advances. In "Rethinking Christianity", Keith Ward argues persuasively that this view is not only uncharitable, but refuted by historical evidence. Mapping the evolution of six major beliefs, from the Hellenistic restatement to the challenged of evolutionary theory, Ward demonstrates that Christianity has always been expressed in constantly changing ways in response to new knowledge and understandings of the world. Controversial, liberal, and confronting the principal questions facing Christianity today, Ward uses this basis to support the construction of his own ground-breaking theology: a 'systematic theology' for the post-scientific age.

Author : Matthew Myer Boulton
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802829724
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God Against Religion written by Matthew Myer Boulton and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-29 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume outlines a Christian theology that takes worship as its basic framework, as the occasion of not only an approach toward God in piety but also separation from God in sin. Drawing on Luther, Calvin, and especially Karl Barth, Matthew Myer Boulton builds a Reformed liturgical theology, maintaining that the God of Jesus Christ is a "God against religion," one who saves human beings from religion by entering it, transforming it, and ultimately ending it.

Author : Lydia Schumacher
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317011287
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Theological Philosophy written by Lydia Schumacher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For much of the modern period, theologians and philosophers of religion have struggled with the problem of proving that it is rational to believe in God. Drawing on the thought of Thomas Aquinas, Theological Philosophy seeks to overturn the longstanding problem of proving faith's rationality and to establish instead that rationality requires to be explained by appeals to faith. Building on a constructive argument developed in a companion book, Rationality as Virtue, Lydia Schumacher advances the conclusion that belief in the God of Christian faith provides an exceptionally robust rationale for rationality and is as such intrinsically rational. At the same time, Schumacher overcomes a common tendency to separate spiritual from ordinary life, and construes the latter as the locus of proof for the rationality of Christian faith.

Author : Gerald O'Collins (S.I.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Fundamental Theology written by Gerald O'Collins (S.I.) and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Craig A. Carter
Publisher : Brazos Press
ISBN 13 : 144120122X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Christ and Culture written by Craig A. Carter and published by Brazos Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1951, theologian H. Richard Niebuhr published Christ and Culture, a hugely influential book that set the agenda for the church and cultural engagement for the next several decades. But Niebuhr's model was devised in and for a predominantly Christian cultural setting. How do we best understand the church and its writers in a world that is less and less Christian? Craig Carter critiques Niebuhr's still pervasive models and proposes a typology better suited to mission after Christendom.