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Humans are lovers, and yet a good deal of pedagogical theory,
Christian or otherwise, assumes an anthropology at odds with human
nature, fixed in a model of humans as "thinking things". Turning to
Augustine, or at least Augustine in conversation with Aquinas,
Martin Heidegger, the overlooked Jesuit thinker Bernard Lonergan,
and the important contemporary Charles Taylor, this book provides a
normative vision for Christian higher education. A phenomenological
reappropriation of human subjectivity reveals an authentic order to
love, even when damaged by sin, and loves, made authentic by grace,
allow the intellectually, morally, and religiously converted person
to attain an integral unity. Properly understanding the integral
relation between love and the fullness of human life overcomes the
split between intellectual and moral formation, allowing
transformed subjects -authentic lovers - to live, seek, and work
towards the values of a certain kind of cosmopolitanism. Christian
universities exist to make cosmopolitans, properly understood,
namely, those persons capable of living authentically. In other
words, this text gives a full-orbed account of human flourishing,
rooted in a phenomenological account of the human as basis for the
mission of the university.
How did the Christian Church originate, what journeys has it taken
over two millennia, and how did it come to exist in its present,
myriad forms? The answers to these questions form a tapestry of
history that reaches from first century Palestine to the ends of
the earth. This volume tells this rich story from an ecumenical
perspective, drawing on both Eastern and Western historic sources
in exploring the rise of Eastern Orthodoxy; the church across Asia,
Africa, and the Americas; and the reformations of the Western
Church; including the diversity of contemporary voices. The work
benefits from many pedagogical features: - boxed text sections
identifying central figures and points of debate - study questions
for each chapter - chapter summaries - maps --charts --index
Supplemented by over 400 illustrations, this book embraces the
universality of historic and current Christianity, creating a
single and comprehensive volume for students of Church history and
systematic theology.
This textbook provides complete and comprehensive coverage of the
theological tradition of Aquinas, Maximus, Luther, Irenaeus,
Lonergan, von Balthasar, Schmemann, Meyendorf and Barth. Each
section of this textbook explores a wide variety of questions - who
are we? Is there a God, and if so, what is his nature? Who is
Jesus? What does it mean that we live both in sin and
righteousness? It consists of 15 modules that are comprised of 46
chapters. Each module has two parts: there are systematic chapters
that discuss and explain each module's topic; and the final chapter
of each module examines 4 to 6 primary sources that are important
for each topic. This textbook includes an extensive range of
pedagogical features: - Sample tests in which each objective
question has been quality tested by classroom use (with a
discrimination index) - A discussion guide for each chapter -
Learning objectives linked to each chapter - The text includes
bold-faced terms, boxed text sections that identify central figures
and points of debate, study question, chapter summaries, glossary
How did the Christian Church originate, what journeys has it taken
over two millennia, and how did it come to exist in its present,
myriad forms? The answers to these questions form a tapestry of
history that reaches from first century Palestine to the ends of
the earth. This volume tells this rich story from an ecumenical
perspective, drawing on both Eastern and Western historic sources
in exploring the rise of Eastern Orthodoxy; the church across Asia,
Africa, and the Americas; and the reformations of the Western
Church; including the diversity of contemporary voices. The work
benefits from many pedagogical features: - boxed text sections
identifying central figures and points of debate - study questions
for each chapter - chapter summaries - maps --charts --index
Supplemented by over 400 illustrations, this book embraces the
universality of historic and current Christianity, creating a
single and comprehensive volume for students of Church history and
systematic theology.
About the Contributor(s): Christopher Ben Simpson is Associate
Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Lincoln Christian
University.
This textbook provides complete and comprehensive coverage of the
theological tradition of Aquinas, Maximus, Luther, Irenaeus,
Lonergan, von Balthasar, Schmemann, Meyendorf and Barth. Each
section of this textbook explores a wide variety of questions - who
are we? Is there a God, and if so, what is his nature? Who is
Jesus? What does it mean that we live both in sin and
righteousness? It consists of 15 modules that are comprised of 46
chapters. Each module has two parts: there are systematic chapters
that discuss and explain each module's topic; and the final chapter
of each module examines 4 to 6 primary sources that are important
for each topic. This textbook includes an extensive range of
pedagogical features: - Sample tests in which each objective
question has been quality tested by classroom use (with a
discrimination index) - A discussion guide for each chapter -
Learning objectives linked to each chapter - The text includes
bold-faced terms, boxed text sections that identify central figures
and points of debate, study question, chapter summaries, glossary
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