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Christology and Pneumatology face many challenges today. Eight
contributors, four European and four Asian theologians, respond to
some of these challenges. Christoph Schwoebel responds to the
challenge of fundamentalism and spiritualism through the renewal of
the Trinitarian theology of the Reformers, Markus Muhling through a
return to the "concarnational" Pneumatology of Thomas Erskine.
Hans-Joachim Sander meets the challenge of suffering and
powerlessness through the postmodern hermeneutics of heterotopia
(Foucault), Lieven Boeve responds to that of skepticism and
pluralism through the hermeneutics of interruption. Lee Ki-Sang and
Kim Heup Young address the globalization of materialism and
anthropocentrism through the respective retrieval of the
apophaticism and Christology of Ryu Young Mo, increasingly noted
today for his original synthesis of Christianity, Buddhism,
Confucianism, and Daoism. Finally, Lai Pan-Chiu and Anselm Min
engage in an East/West dialogue, Lai by comparing the Christian
idea of deification and the Neo-Confucian idea of self-cultivation,
Min the Trinity of Aquinas and the Triad of Zhu Xi. This is a
substantial, timely, and insightful contribution to Christology and
Pneumatology in the context of the many issues raised by
globalization, especially the need for serious East/West dialogue.
Faith, hope, and love, traditionally called theological virtues,
are central to Christianity. This book renews faith, hope, and love
in the context of the many contemporary challenges in many unique
ways. It is an ecumenical collection of papers, equally divided
between Catholic and Protestant positions, that seek to radically
renew the classical doctrine of faith, hope, and love, and argues
for their essential connection to the praxis of justice. It
contains eight different approaches, each represented by a
distinguished theologian and addressing different aspects of the
issues and followed by insightful and critical responses. It does
not merely seek to renew the theological virtues but to also
reconstruct them in the demanding context of justice and the
contemporary world, nor is it simply a treatise on justice but a
theoretical and practical reflection on justice as vital
expressions of faith in God, hope in God, and love of God. A
non-dogmatic and non-ideological approach, it accommodates both
conservative and liberal positions, and avoids the separation of
the theological virtues from the demands of the contemporary world
as well as the separation of justice talk from the theological
context of faith, hope, and love. It seeks above all to renew, not
merely repeat, the classical doctrine of faith, hope, and love in
the contemporary context of the urgency of justice, and to do so
ecumenically, comprehensively, and from a variety of perspectives
and aspects.
In "Rethinking the Medieval Legacy for Contemporary Theology, "six
distinguished theologians bridge medieval and contemporary
theologies by developing the theological significance of medieval
insights in response to contemporary issues. Their nuanced readings
of medieval texts, extended to major theological issues of our
time, provide examples of the retrieval of the medieval tradition,
an essential part of any contemporary theological reconstruction.
Barbara Newman extends the theology of "perichoresis "or mutual
indwelling to illuminate the relationship between donor and
recipient in the case of organ transplants; Marilyn McCord Adams
applies insights about divine friendship to the perennial issue of
horrendous evil; and Kevin Madigan brings principles of medieval
exegesis to bear on the contemporary historical critical approach
to biblical interpretation. Ingolf U. Dalferth applies insights
from the doctrine of divine omnipotence and creation "ex nihilo "to
deconstruct Heidegger's limitation of the possibilities of
authentic existence to historical facticity. Pim Valkenberg
explores the possibilities of a theological encounter between
Christianity and Islam in the works of Aquinas and Nicholas of
Cusa; and Anselm K. Min applies the analogical insights of Aquinas
on the nature and limits of human knowledge of God to a critique of
contemporary theologies that claim to know either too little or too
much about God.
"This is a splendid collection of essays. Anselm K. Min has
assembled a distinguished group of theologians who persuasively
argue for the relevance of the Christian theology of the Middle
Ages to the problems we face in the twenty-first century." --Kevin
Hart, Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Christian Studies, University of
Virginia
In Paths to the Triune God, Anselm K. Min brings five relevant
themes in the theology of Thomas Aquinas into mutually critical
dialogue with contemporary theological concerns. Min defends
Aquinas's Trinitarian theology of reason and creation against
modern detractors of natural theology while also calling attention
to the lack of historical consciousness in Aquinas's writing. Min
discusses Aquinas's affirmation of the salvation of the
non-Christian through a moral life but also criticizes his
sometimes-naive approach to salvation history. Min presents
Aquinas's Trinitarian theology of salvation through the incarnation
and the possibility of a sacramental theology of religions for
today while also taking seriously the scandal of his doctrine of
reprobation. Min highlights Aquinas's contemplative, sapiential
conception of theology against contemporary preoccupations with
praxis while also criticizing his intellectualist interpretation of
human existence. Min also devotes a significant portion of this
study to the immanent Trinity. and Chapter 6 is a full-scale
analysis and critique of the views of contemporary social
Trinitarians, such as Jurgen Moltmann, Wolfhart Pannenberg, and
Cornelius Plantinga, Jr., in light of Aquinas. Min concludes that
neither the purely sapiential theology of Aquinas nor the purely
prophetic theology of contemporary liberation movements is
adequate. He argues that contemporary theology must
methodologically incorporate into its content a tension between
wisdom and praxis, between sapiential and prophetic theology. Min's
book represents a genuine encounter between Aquinas and
contemporary theologies on many topical issues. It will be of
interest to students and scholars of theology, both medieval and
contemporary.
In Paths to the Triune God, Anselm K. Min brings five relevant
themes in the theology of Thomas Aquinas into mutually critical
dialogue with contemporary theological concerns. Min defends
Aquinas's Trinitarian theology of reason and creation against
modern detractors of natural theology while also calling attention
to the lack of historical consciousness in Aquinas's writing. Min
discusses Aquinas's affirmation of the salvation of the
non-Christian through a moral life but also criticizes his
sometimes-naive approach to salvation history. Min presents
Aquinas's Trinitarian theology of salvation through the incarnation
and the possibility of a sacramental theology of religions for
today while also taking seriously the scandal of his doctrine of
reprobation. Min highlights Aquinas's contemplative, sapiential
conception of theology against contemporary preoccupations with
praxis while also criticizing his intellectualist interpretation of
human existence. Min also devotes a significant portion of this
study to the immanent Trinity. and Chapter 6 is a full-scale
analysis and critique of the views of contemporary social
Trinitarians, such as Jurgen Moltmann, Wolfhart Pannenberg, and
Cornelius Plantinga, Jr., in light of Aquinas. Min concludes that
neither the purely sapiential theology of Aquinas nor the purely
prophetic theology of contemporary liberation movements is
adequate. He argues that contemporary theology must
methodologically incorporate into its content a tension between
wisdom and praxis, between sapiential and prophetic theology. Min's
book represents a genuine encounter between Aquinas and
contemporary theologies on many topical issues. It will be of
interest to students and scholars of theology, both medieval and
contemporary.
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