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A timely and challenging collection of essays on Jesus Christ
through the perspective of the slaves and the struggles of African
Americans today.
Catalyzed by Sylvia Wynter’s questioning of modern/colonial
descriptions of the human person, the essays in Beyond the Doctrine
of Man interrogate the problem of these definitions of the human
person and take up the struggle to decolonize and unsettle such
descriptions. Contributors: Rufus Burnett Jr., M. Shawn Copeland,
Yomaira C. Figueroa, Patrice Haynes, Xhercis Méndez, Andrew
Prevot, Mayra Rivera, Linn Marie Tonstad, Alexander G. Weheliye
Catalyzed by Sylvia Wynter's questioning of modern/colonial
descriptions of the human person, the essays in Beyond the Doctrine
of Man interrogate the problem of these definitions of the human
person and take up the struggle to decolonize and unsettle such
descriptions. Contributors: Rufus Burnett Jr., M. Shawn Copeland,
Yomaira C. Figueroa, Patrice Haynes, Xhercis Mendez, Andrew Prevot,
Mayra Rivera, Linn Marie Tonstad, Alexander G. Weheliye
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 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.
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Concilium 1996/1 (Book)
Elisabeth Schuessler Fiorenza, M.Shawn Copeland
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Concilium has long been a household-name for cutting-edge critical
and constructive theological thinking. Past contributors include
leading Catholic scholars such as Hans Kung, Gregory Baum and
Edward Schillebeeckx, and the editors of the review belong to the
international "who's who" in the world of contemporary theology.
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