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Exploring the hospitality of God, and its implications for human
thought and action, this book examines the concepts of hospitality
as cognitive tools for reframing our thinking about God, divine
action, and human response in discipleship. Hospitality is imagined
as an interactive symbol, changing perspectives and encouraging
stable environments of compassionate construction in society. Human
rights are of crucial importance to the wellbeing of the people of
our planet. But there is a sense in which they will always be an
emergency measure, a response to evils as they are happening. The
authors argue that a hospitable comparative theology reaches out to
bring Christian hospitality into the dialogue of world religions
and cultures. It will respect the identity of particular groups and
yet will strive for a cosmopolitan sharing of common values. It
will respect tradition but also openness to reform and
re-imagining. It will encourage convergence and development in a
fluid stream of committed hospitalities.
Fifty Key Christian Thinkers provides both valuable information and stimulating debate on the lives and work of fifty of the most important Christian theologians. Divided into five sections, it covers: * Christian Beginnings * Middle Ages * Reformation and its aftermath * Modern Theology and the Twentieth Century. This guide provides an overview of Christian theology from the emergence of the faith 2000 years ago to the present day. Among the figures included in this accessible guide are Paul, Aquinas, Ockham, Luther, Kierkegaard and Bonhoeffer.
Exploring the hospitality of God, and its implications for human
thought and action, this book examines the concepts of hospitality
as cognitive tools for reframing our thinking about God, divine
action, and human response in discipleship. Hospitality is imagined
as an interactive symbol, changing perspectives and encouraging
stable environments of compassionate construction in society. Human
rights are of crucial importance to the wellbeing of the people of
our planet. But there is a sense in which they will always be an
emergency measure, a response to evils as they are happening. The
authors argue that a hospitable comparative theology reaches out to
bring Christian hospitality into the dialogue of world religions
and cultures. It will respect the identity of particular groups and
yet will strive for a cosmopolitan sharing of common values. It
will respect tradition but also openness to reform and
re-imagining. It will encourage convergence and development in a
fluid stream of committed hospitalities.
At the beginning of the twenty-first century there is an increasing
tendency to retrenchment within the Christian churches and among
other world religions. Religious fundamentalisms are on the
increase. In Europe, at least, there is an accelerated decline in
church membership. In theology there is a corresponding move away
from addressing basic theological issues in the contemporary world,
towards increasingly technical interpretation of historical
tradition. This book draws on the strengths in classical liberal
traditions in theology, augmented by other perspectives, to present
a creative proposal for the future of theology and society. George
Newlands explores the nature, scope and limits of an intercultural
Christian theology, setting out a working model for a new open
theology which relates theology and culture. Contributing to the
cumulative effort to re-imagine faith in the contemporary world, a
focus on the Christian understanding of God lies at the heart of
this book. Exploring the interface between theology and particular
cultural activities, The Transformative Imagination engages with
politics, literature, philosophy and other humanities, and the
natural sciences. The relationship between theology and the social
and geographical sub-cultures which characterize human life, is
explored through diverse examples which make connections and
initiate dialogue. Connecting Christian theology and human rights,
religion is seen to link constructively with some of the most
intractable problems in contemporary global conflicts of interest.
Theology is re-situated as a team player, a catalyst to facilitate
dialogue in contrast to triumphalist theologies of the past.
Human rights is one of the most important geopolitical issues in
the modern world. Jesus Christ is the centre of Christianity. Yet
there exists almost no analysis of the significance of Christology
for human rights. This book focuses on the connections. Examination
of rights reveals tensions, ambiguities and conflicts. This book
constructs a Christology which centres on a Christ of the
vulnerable and the margins. It explores the interface between
religion, law, politics and violence, East and West, North and
South. The history of the use of sacred texts as 'texts of terror'
is examined, and theological links to legal and political
dimensions explored. Criteria are developed for action to make an
effective difference to human rights enforcement and resolution
between cultures and religions on rights.
Fifty Key Christian Thinkers provides both valuable information and stimulating debate on the lives and work of fifty of the most important Christian theologians. Divided into five sections, it covers: * Christian Beginnings * Middle Ages * Reformation and its aftermath * Modern Theology and the Twentieth Century. This guide provides an overview of Christian theology from the emergence of the faith 2000 years ago to the present day. Among the figures included in this accessible guide are Paul, Aquinas, Ockham, Luther, Kierkegaard and Bonhoeffer.
This collection of essays reflects constructive engagement with a
liberal and progressive programme of Christian theology over a
number of years. The themes are diverse - from the renewal of
Christology and the ecumenical dimensions of ecclesiology to human
rights and emancipatory theology. Particular theologians, from
Schleiermacher and Juengel in continental Europe, to Baillie and
Lampe in the UK, are discussed. The preface and epilogue underline
the urgent need for new and viable contemporary liberal theological
voices to re-imagine the doctrinal, ethical and political
implications of the Christian gospel. The final piece offers a
progressive perspective on the sexuality debate in the churches.
A new and wide-ranging study of Christianity in Scotland, from the
eighteenth century to the present.The contributors include D. W. D.
Shaw, Ian Campbell, Kenneth Fielding, William Ferguson, Barbara
MacHaffie, Peter Matheson, John McCaffrey, Owen Chadwick, David
Thompson, Keith Robbins, Andrew Ross, Stewart J. Brown and George
Newlands.Topics encompass varieties of unbelief, challenges to the
Westminster confession, John Baillie, Queen Victoria and the Church
of Scotland, the Scottish ecumenical movement, the disestablishment
movement, and Presbyterian-Catholic relations.
Human rights is one of the most important geopolitical issues in
the modern world. Jesus Christ is the centre of Christianity. Yet
there exists almost no analysis of the significance of Christology
for human rights. This book focuses on the connections. Examination
of rights reveals tensions, ambiguities and conflicts. This book
constructs a Christology which centres on a Christ of the
vulnerable and the margins. It explores the interface between
religion, law, politics and violence, East and West, North and
South. The history of the use of sacred texts as 'texts of terror'
is examined, and theological links to legal and political
dimensions explored. Criteria are developed for action to make an
effective difference to human rights enforcement and resolution
between cultures and religions on rights.
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