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Author : Basil Mitchell
Publisher : Eerdmans Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780802805447
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (54 download)
Download or read book How to Play Theological Ping-pong written by Basil Mitchell and published by Eerdmans Publishing Company. This book was released on 1990 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William J. Abraham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780783765648
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (656 download)
Download or read book How to Play Theological Ping-Pong written by William J. Abraham and published by . This book was released on with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Sloane
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1597527718
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (975 download)
Download or read book On Being a Christian in the Academy written by Andrew Sloane and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having identified crucial flaws in both classical foundationalism and cognitive relativism, Andrew Sloane expounds Wolterstorff's theory of rationality and his understanding of the devising and weighing of theories. The role of control beliefs in scholarship and the place of Christian beliefs in the practice of Christian scholarship are explored. The author then critically appraises Wolterstorff's view in dialogue with its rivals. He presents a defensible person-specific but nonrelativist criterion of theory choice and outlines an organic epistemological metaphor. The book concludes by exploring the implications of these findings for theological scholarship, in particular Old Testament exegesis. The author suggests that Wolterstorff's notion of scholarly practice explains the practice of scholarship and is to be commended to Christian scholars as a cogent and challenging method of devising and appraising theories.
Author : Trevor Cairney
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567191931
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Theology and the Future written by Trevor Cairney and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theology was once 'queen of the sciences', the integrating centre of Christendom's conceptual universe. In our own time the very idea of systematic theology is frequently called into question, derided as an arcane and superstitious pseudo-discipline. Even within the church, it is commonly disregarded in favour of unreflective piety and pragmatism. At the same time, the southward shift in world Christianity's centre of gravity prompts crucial questions about the future form and content of theology. Within this context, Theology and the Future offers a case for the continuing viability of theology, exploring how it might adapt to changing circumstances, and discussing its implications for how we are to imagine and help shape our shared human future. Beginning with the question of God, this book explores what might be meant by 'the future of God', and what its implications are for Christian theology. Chapters follow on the location of theology (in global Christianity, the church and the academy) and on its sources and method. The second half of the book explores a wide variety of dimensions of the human future that theology might address and illuminate. The essays bring together a mix of specialist theologians and interdisciplinary thinkers to support the assertion that there can be no more critical endeavor to the future than understanding God and all things in relationship to him.
Author : Ábrahám Kovács
Publisher : Langham Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783689455
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (836 download)
Download or read book In Academia for the Church written by Ábrahám Kovács and published by Langham Publishing. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tension between theory and practice in theological education is an unfortunate yet common occurrence, with educators sometimes finding themselves on one extreme or the other. Some academics can be so immersed in high-level theological discourse that they hardly interact with the main questions of the average church-goer, while others are so keen to be engaging and relevant they fail to be rigorous in their scholarship. Regardless of the reasons the results are the same – failure to present the good news with a powerful, credible voice. To address this tension between academia and the church, a group of Eastern European theologians came together in the spring of 2013 in Berekfüdő, Hungary. This publication is a collection of 10 edited papers presented at that conference. While topics are addressed from a European context the principles behind them are far-reaching, providing important insight for the global church and academy alike.
Author : Harriet A. Harris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351937308
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Faith and Philosophical Analysis written by Harriet A. Harris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What tensions arise between philosophy of religion and theology? What strengths and weaknesses of analytical methods emerge in relation to strongly confessional philosophical theologies, or to Continental philosophies? Faith and Philosophical Analysis evaluates how well philosophy of religion serves in understanding religious faith. Figures who rarely share the space of the same book - leading exponents of analytic philosophy of religion and those who question its legacy - are drawn together in this book, with their disagreements harnessed to positive effect. Figures such as Richard Swinburne and Basil Mitchell reflect on their life-long projects from a perspective which has not previously been seen in print. A wide range of approaches found in contemporary philosophy of religion are explored, including: reformed epistemology, 'traditional' metaphysical theory building, feminist methodologies, Wittgensteinian approaches, and American pragmatism. Considering the trends in philosophy of religion as they are interacting across continents, looking particularly at philosophical influences in North America, Britain, and Continental Europe, this book will appeal to students, scholars and general readers with an interest in philosophy of religion, theology, or analytical philosophy.
Author : Trevor Hart
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725277123
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)
Download or read book Faith Thinking, Second Edition written by Trevor Hart and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Faith Thinking provides a stimulating introduction to some vital questions of method in Christian theology. The book argues that faith commitments are necessary not in theology alone but in all serious acts of our knowing anything at all as human beings. Knowledge, in other words, is always bound to be the outcome of some process of “faith seeking understanding.” Fresh consideration is given too in this book to relationships obtaining between the authoritative canon of Scripture, tradition, and “reason” in the theological task. Finally, in this new edition an important reevaluation is undertaken of the potentially explosive impact of “truth claims” in a post-truth world.
Author : Paul Helm
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1625645910
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (256 download)
Download or read book Faith, Form, and Fashion written by Paul Helm and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2014-08-14 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a detailed examination of the theological innovations of Kevin Vanhoozer and John Franke. Each proposes that doctrinal and systematic theology should be recast in the light of postmodernity. No longer can Christian theology be foundational, or have a stable metaphysical and epistemological framework. Vanhoozer advocates a theo-dramatic reconstruction of Christian doctrine, replacing the timeless propositions of the "purely cerebral theology" of the Reformed tradition in favor of a theology that does justice to the polyphony of multiple biblical genres. Franke holds that theology is part of a three-way conversation between Scripture, tradition, and culture, with an uncertain outcome. This study shows that each of these proposals is based on misunderstanding and exaggeration, and that the case against foundationalism is unclear and unpersuasive. It is argued that Vanhoozer's appeal to revelation as divine speech-acts is not as radical as he thinks, and his epistemology is weak. In the hands of postmodernity, Christian theology abandons its exactness and the standards of care that are a notable feature of doctrinal constrictions. The book will be of importance to those with interest in Reformed theology or Christian theology more generally. It provides a clear assessment of the impact of the postmodern mindset on theology.
Author : Samuel Tranter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567694623
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)
Download or read book Oliver O'Donovan's Moral Theology written by Samuel Tranter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first sustained, full-length treatment of the wide-ranging work of major Anglican theologian Oliver O'Donovan. Analyzing such key texts as Resurrection and Moral Order, The Desire of the Nations and Ethics as Theology, Samuel Tranter shows that the relationship between eschatology and ethics is an area of significant tension in O'Donovan's evolving vision of moral theology. Tranter traces this tension as it relates to O'Donovan's writing and contemporary discussion around natural law, divine command and human flourishing, as well as to particular topics such as poverty, marriage and singleness and biotechnology. He also connects it with the broader doctrinal features of O'Donovan's project, such as his accounts of creation, sin and redemption, and his understanding of the relationships between the cross and the resurrection, on one hand, and Christology and pneumatology, on the other. Throughout, Tranter indicates the implications of these themes for our understanding of the Christian life. This volume establishes and evaluates O'Donovan's influence on contemporary Christian ethicists and political theologians (such as Luke Bretherton, Gilbert Meilaender, Jean Porter and Brent Waters), and engages with critical readings of O'Donovan (such as those by Stanley Hauerwas and Gerald McKenny). In conversation with these and other voices from a range of perspectives, Tranter shows how O'Donovan's proposals may be appropriated and amended as a resource for theology and ethics going forward.
Author : Bruce N. Kaye
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666713481
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)
Download or read book Frozen Institutions written by Bruce N. Kaye and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks for the memories—well, maybe not. It has been hard work getting over the break up of the fifteen-hundred-year Anglican marriage of church and state—the so-called English Christendom. It is still a work in progress because the marriage left behind so many unconscious assumptions about power, institutions, and community relations. The first group of essays in this book challenges some of the frozen elements in church institutions, in particular habits of orthodoxy, catholicity, and canonical Scripture. They are framed in the context of the struggles of the Anglican Communion. The second set of essays refer to the Anglican Church of Australia and some attempts at de-frosting its institutions. These are lectures and papers given across Australia mostly during the author’s time as General Secretary of the Anglican Church of Australia. The last essay is an account of a current struggle over the blessing of a same-sex couple legally married under recently changed civil law. It illustrates the role of the constitution of the church in this dispute. The loose federation of dioceses in the constitution has generally enabled dioceses to live separately. The danger in this has been the specter of a church made up of diocesan silos rather than of engaged fellowship. However, the federal structure does not need to work that way. Indeed, in the present conflict situation this very looseness could be used to provide space for more respectful engagement. How this crisis is handled will be an early clue as to whether the church is up to it.
Author : Brian Hebblethwaite
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405137797
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Philosophical Theology and Christian Doctrine written by Brian Hebblethwaite and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophical Theology and Christian Doctrine surveys and comments on recent work by philosophers of religion in the analytic tradition on the doctrines of the Christian creed. Topics covered include creation, Incarnation, Trinity, salvation and eschatology, and the ultimate future of creation. Comprehensive survey of core Christian doctrines
Author : Trevor A. Hart
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1597520187
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (975 download)
Download or read book Faith Thinking written by Trevor A. Hart and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2005-01-25 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I know of no better current introduction to the study of theology than Dr. Hart's lucid, meaty and appetizing book. Stephen Sykes 'Faith Thinking' is a lively, provocative and most welcome book...contending for a dynamic way of doing theology that neither abandons thinking nor the life of the believing community. Richard Holloway Dr. Hart addresses fundamental questions about the nature of theology and theological method...and his style is clear and eminently readable. Anthony Thiselton There are few more important questions for theology today than that of its own character and status. In this important and wide-ranging book, Trevor Hart articulates and defends a robust thesis about its respectability, integrity and independence. Colin Gunton Trevor Hart is Professor of Divinity and Principal of St. Mary's College at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.
Author : Martin Warner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019105691X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Aesthetics of Argument written by Martin Warner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-05 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argument and imagination are often interdependent. The Aesthetics of Argument is concerned with how this relationship may bear on argument's concern with truth, not just persuasion, and with the enhancement of understanding such interdependence may bring. The rationality of argument, conceived as the advancement of reasons for or against a claim, is not simply a matter of deductive validity. Whether arguments are relevant, have force, or look foolish—or whether an example is telling or merely illustrative—cannot always be assessed in these terms. Martin Warner presents a series of case studies which explore how analogy, metaphor, narrative, image, and symbol can be used in different ways to frame one domain in terms of another, severally or in various combinations, and how criteria drawn from the study of imaginative literature may have a bearing on their truth-aptness. Such framing can be particularly effective in argumentative roles which invite self-interrogation, as Plato saw long ago. Narrative in such cases may be fictional, whether parabolic or dramatic, autobiographical or biographical, and in certain cases may seek to show how standard conceptualizations are inadequate. Beyond this, whether in poetry or prose and not only with respect to narrative, the "logic" of imagery enables us to make principled sense of our capacity to grasp imagistically elements of our experience through words whose use at the imaginative level has transformed their standard conceptual relationships, and hence judge the credibility of associated arguments. Assessment of the argumentative imagination requires criteria drawn not only from dialectic and rhetoric, but also from poetics.
Author : Robert MacSwain
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317058623
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Scripture, Metaphysics, and Poetry written by Robert MacSwain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a critical edition of arguably the greatest work of English theology in the 20th century: Austin Farrer's Bampton Lectures published as The Glass of Vision in 1948. Farrer was an interdisciplinary genius who made original contributions to philosophy, theology, and biblical studies, as well as to our understanding of the role of imagination in human thought and Christian doctrine. According to Farrer, the three primary themes of these lectures are 'scripture, metaphysics, and poetry,' individually and in relation to each other. The lectures defend his famous theory of divine revelation through images rather than propositions or events, a provocative account of the place of metaphysical reasoning in theology, and a literary approach to the Biblical text that was decades ahead of its time and is still controversial. The Glass of Vision has generated a rich and interesting interdisciplinary conversation that has lasted for decades, starting with commentators such as Helen Gardner and Frank Kermode. In addition to Farrer's full text, this critical edition also contains an introduction to the significance and context of Farrer's thought, and a selection of thirty-years' worth of commentary by leading British and European theologians and literary scholars: David Brown, Ingolf Dalferth, Hans Haugh, Douglas Hedley, David Jasper, and Gerard Loughlin. Of interest to literary and biblical scholars, theologians, and philosophers, this book holds particular value for those exploring the nature of imagination in contemporary thought and scholarship.
Author : Paul Helm
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000857972
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Reason in the Service of Faith written by Paul Helm and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-01 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Helm is a distinguished philosopher, with particular interests in the philosophy of religion. His work covers some of the most important aspects of the field as it has developed in the last thirty years with particular contributions to metaphysics, religious epistemology, and philosophical theology. In celebration of Helm’s life’s work, Reason in the Service of Faith brings together a range of his essays which reflect these central concerns of his thought. Over thirty of Helm's selected essays and four unpublished articles are gathered into five parts: Metaphilosophical Issues; Action, Change, and Personal Identity; Epistemology; God; and Creation, Providence, and Prayer. The volume is prefaced with a short editorial introduction, and ends with an extensive bibliography of Helm’s published works. Demonstrating the important connection between Helm’s theological and philosophical interests across his body of work, this collection is a remarkable resource for scholars of religion, philosophy, and theology.
Author : S. Brian Stratton
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761818182
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (181 download)
Download or read book Coherence, Consonance, and Conversation written by S. Brian Stratton and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2000 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coherence, Consonance, and Conversation focuses on one of the most intriguing areas in contemporary theology today: the relationship between theology and natural science. Stratton rejects approaches which see the two disciplines as hostile or irrelevant to each other and argues that theology, philosophy, and natural science should be viewed as members of an ongoing dialogue which eventually results in a continuous world-view. Scholars and students of philosophy and theology will enjoy this interesting study.
Author : Don J. Payne
Publisher : Baker Academic
ISBN 13 : 1493423754
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (934 download)
Download or read book Already Sanctified written by Don J. Payne and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does the doctrine of sanctification shape the Christian life? Offering a fully developed treatment of "accomplished" sanctification, Don Payne explains that the primary biblical focus in sanctification is not progressive growth but that which has already occurred for Christians to make growth possible, necessary, and grace-driven. As Payne explores the significance Scripture attributes to the accomplished aspect of sanctification, he helps us understand that we are already sanctified. Sanctification is not synonymous with transformation but undergirds strategies and resources related to Christian discipleship and formation.
