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Through the intensely intimate relationship that arises between God
and humans in the incarnation of the Word in Christ, God gives us
the gift of God's own life. This simple claim provides the basis
for Kathryn Tanner's powerful study of the centrality of Jesus
Christ for all Christian thought and life: if the divine and the
human are united in Christ, then Jesus can be seen as key to the
pattern that organizes the whole, even while God's ways remain
beyond our grasp. Drawing on the history of Christian thought to
develop an innovative Christ-centered theology, this book sheds
fresh light on major theological issues such as the imago dei, the
relationship between nature and grace, the Trinity's implications
for human community, and the Spirit's manner of working in human
lives. Originally delivered as Warfield Lectures at Princeton
Theological Seminary, it offers a creative and compelling
contribution to contemporary theology.
The Oxford Handbook of Systematic Theology brings together a set of
original and authoritative accounts of all the major areas of
current research in Christian systematic theology, offering a
thorough survey of the state of the discipline and of its prospects
for those undertaking research and teaching in the field. The
Handbook engages in a comprehensive examination of themes and
approaches, guiding the reader through current debates and
literatures in the context of the historical development of
systematic theological reflection. Organized thematically, it
treats in detail the full array of topics in systematic theology,
as well as questions of its sources and norms, its relation to
other theological and non-theological fields of enquiry, and some
major trends in current work. Each chapter provides an analysis of
research and debate on its topic. The focus is on doctrinal (rather
than historical) questions, and on major (rather than ephemeral)
debates. The aim is to stimulate readers to reach theological
judgements on the basis of consideration of the range of opinion.
Drawn from Europe, the UK, and North America, the authors are all
leading practitioners of the discipline. Readers will find expert
guidance as well as creative suggestions about the future direction
of the study of Christian doctrine.
Through the intensely intimate relationship that arises between God
and humans in the incarnation of the Word in Christ, God gives us
the gift of God's own life. This simple claim provides the basis
for Kathryn Tanner's powerful study of the centrality of Jesus
Christ for all Christian thought and life: if the divine and the
human are united in Christ, then Jesus can be seen as key to the
pattern that organizes the whole, even while God's ways remain
beyond our grasp. Drawing on the history of Christian thought to
develop an innovative Christ-centered theology, this book sheds
fresh light on major theological issues such as the imago dei, the
relationship between nature and grace, the Trinity's implications
for human community, and the Spirit's manner of working in human
lives. Originally delivered as Warfield Lectures at Princeton
Theological Seminary, it offers a creative and compelling
contribution to contemporary theology.
Theologians are increasingly looking to cultural criticism, rather than philosophy, as a dialogue partner for cross-disciplinary studies. This book explores the importance of this shift by bringing together scholars from a variety of theological perspectives to analyze different contemporary theories of cultural movements. The book is divided into two parts. The first examines the theoretical relationship between theology and cultural studies. The second consists of theological analyses of a series of controversial topics (including race, class, resistance movements, and identity politics) that cry out for theological reflection.
Theologians are increasingly looking to cultural criticism, rather than philosophy, as a dialogue partner for cross-disciplinary studies. This book explores the importance of this shift by bringing together scholars from a variety of theological perspectives to analyze different contemporary theories of cultural movements. The book is divided into two parts. The first examines the theoretical relationship between theology and cultural studies. The second consists of theological analyses of a series of controversial topics (including race, class, resistance movements, and identity politics) that cry out for theological reflection.
With simplicity and elegance, Tanner sketches a historically
informed vision of the faith. Chapter 1 recovers strands of early
Christian accounts of Jesus and his significance for a very
different age. Chapter 2 situates Christology in a religious vision
of the whole cosmos, while Chapter 3 lays out the ethical and
political implications of the vision. Chapter 4 speculates about
the "end" of things in Christ. Tanner's work was developed from the
Scottish Journal of Theology lectures in 1999 in Edinburgh.
One of the world's most celebrated theologians argues for a
Protestant anti-work ethic In his classic The Protestant Ethic and
the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber famously showed how Christian
beliefs and practices could shape persons in line with capitalism.
In this significant reimagining of Weber's work, Kathryn Tanner
provocatively reverses this thesis, arguing that Christianity can
offer a direct challenge to the largely uncontested growth of
capitalism. Exploring the cultural forms typical of the current
finance-dominated system of capitalism, Tanner shows how they can
be countered by Christian beliefs and practices with a comparable
person-shaping capacity. Addressing head-on the issues of economic
inequality, structural under- and unemployment, and capitalism's
unstable boom/bust cycles, she draws deeply on the theological
resources within Christianity to imagine anew a world of human
flourishing. This book promises to be one of the most important
theological books in recent years.
The Oxford Handbook of Systematic Theology brings together a set of
original and authoritative accounts of all the major areas of
current research in Christian systematic theology, offering a
thorough survey of the state of the discipline and of its prospects
for those undertaking research and teaching in the field. The
Handbook engages in a comprehensive examination of themes and
approaches, guiding the reader through current debates and
literatures in the context of the historical development of
systematic theological reflection. Organized thematically, it
treats in detail the full array of topics in systematic theology,
as well as questions of its sources and norms, its relation to
other theological and non-theological fields of enquiry, and some
major trends in current work. Each chapter provides an analysis of
research and debate on its topic, identifying and interpreting
options and laying out the basis for the reader to explore the
territory, asking: What are the critical issues? How have these
issues developed and been expounded? What are current prospects?
The focus is on doctrinal (rather than historical) questions, and
on major (rather than ephemeral) debates. The aim is to stimulate
readers to reach theological judgements on the basis of
consideration of the range of opinion. Drawn from Europe, the UK,
and North America, the authors are all leading practitioners of the
discipline. Readers will find expert guidance as well as creative
suggestions about the future direction of the study of Christian
doctrine.
In recent decades economic dislocation, immigration, new
architecture, and other forces have transformed the physical,
social, and even religious landscape of large cities. There
gleaming skyscrapers tower over struggling ghettos, abandoned
businesses mar upscale shopping areas, and tall-steeple churches
sometimes languish where storefront mosques thrive. Exploring the
religious significance of this new urban landscape, a group of
theologians, members of the Workgroup on Constructive Christian
Theology, traveled to select cities and found an exciting, vibrant,
and multivoiced religious spirit at work. In these essays five
leading American theologians delve deeply into the contemporary
spiritual geographies of five cities, capturing, through a mix of
personal and historical narrative, political analysis, and
theological rumination, a sense of this new sacred space and the
spirit aborning there.
Are there any fair and viable alternatives to global capitalism?
University of Chicago theologian Kathryn Tanner offers here a
serious and creative proposal for evaluating economic theory and
behaviour through a theological lens.
Delving into the complex aspects of Christian beliefs in their
historical, theological, and social diversity, Tanner offers a
rigorous and sustained analysis of the relations of belief to
attitudes and action. In arguing that Christian beliefs about God
and the world can be disengaged from complicity with social forces
of reaction and oppression, Tanner discloses the radical potential
of Christian beliefs and realigns them with efforts to bring about
a just society.
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