Faithfully Seeking Understanding provides a first-hand opportunity for English-speaking readers to encounter the thought of Johannes Kuhn (1806-1887), widely considered the greatest speculative ...theologian of the renowned Catholic Tübingen School.
The Complementarity of Women and Men provides a Catholic
Christian case that men and women are in certain respects quite
different but also have a positive, synergistic complementary
relationship. ...Although differences and their mutually supporting
relationships are focused on throughout the volume, men and women
are assumed to have equal dignity and value. This underlying
interpretation comes from the familiar, basic theological position
in Genesis that both sexes were made in the image of God. After a
cogent philosophical introduction to complementary differences by
J. Budziszewski, this position is developed from theological,
philosophical, and historical perspectives by Sr. Prudence Allen.
Next Deborah Savage, building upon the writings of St. John Paul
II, gives a strong theological basis for complementarity. This is
followed by Elizabeth Lev's chapter presenting new and surprising
art history evidence from the paintings of Michelangelo in the
Sistine Chapel supporting the complementarity interpretation. A
final chapter by Paul Vitz documents and summarizes the scientific
evidence supporting sexual difference and complementarity in the
disciplines of psychology and neuroscience. As a consequence of
both the individual chapters and the integrated understanding they
present The Complementarity of Women and Men is a
significant contribution to the important, complex, contemporary
debate about men, women, sex, and gender.
In Charles E. Curran's latest book,Diverse Voices in Modern US Moral Theology, he presents the diverse voices of US Catholic moral theologians from the mid-twentieth century to the present. The book ...discusses eleven key individuals in the development and evolution of moral theology as well as the New Wine, New Wineskins movement. This diversity, which differs from the monolithic understanding of moral theology that prevailed until recently, comes from the diverse historical circumstances orSitz im Lebenof the authors. Each of these theologians developed her or his approach in light of these circumstances and in response to shifts in the three audiences of moral theology-the Church, the academy, and the broader society.
By exploring this diversity, Curran recognizes the deep divisions that exist within Catholic moral theology between the so-called "liberal" and "conservative" approaches and acknowledges the need for greater dialogue between them, providing a deeper understanding of the methods and approaches of these significant figures.
This new book from a major figure in the field will be an important resource for students and scholars of US Catholic moral theology and for anyone seeking to understand the current state of moral theology in America today.
Innovative Catholicism and the Human Condition gives an anthropological account of a progressive religious movement in the Roman Catholic Church that is attempting to reconcile religious conviction ...and reason, and, ergo, modify the human condition. Investigation is given to a representative group of this movement, "Innovative Catholics," who are endeavouring to maintain the momentum for change which began in the 1960s and 1970s. They now find themselves caught between traditional notions of religion and a secularised society, while trying to reconcile these polarising forces to find a pathway forward. While ethnographic fieldwork for this research was conducted in Australia, this movement is to be found across the Western world. The research is framed by the question posed by Jürgen Habermas, who asks whether the democratic constitutional state is able to renew itself, and recognises a benefit in learning from religion. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, subsequently Pope Benedict XVI, responds by asserting the need for a common ethical basis and limits on reason. This latter position, however, remains problematic for Innovative Catholics who are conscious of history and culture. The research explores how Innovative Catholics, who in taking the middle position, inform this dialectic on secularization through their ideas and practices about the human condition.
During the past few decades there has been renewed interest in the twentieth-century French Catholic philosopher Maurice Blondel (1861–1949) and his influence on modern and contemporary theology, but ...little scholarship has been published in the English-speaking world. In Maurice Blondel: Transforming Catholic Tradition , Robert Koerpel examines Blondel’s work, the historical and theological development of the idea of tradition in modern Catholicism, tradition’s relation to reason and revelation, and Blondel's influence on Catholicism's understanding of tradition. The book presents aspects of Blondel's thought that deserve to be more widely known and contributes to important debates in current theology on modern French Catholic thought and the emerging conversations surrounding them. Koerpel looks to the cultural context from which Blondel’s thought emerges by situating it within the broader conceptual, historical, and theological developments of modernity. He examines the problem of reason and revelation in modern Catholicism, the role and nature of tradition, and the relationships between theology and history, truth and change, nature and grace, and scripture and the development of doctrine.
This book provides readers with an appreciation of Blondel’s conceptually creative answer to how tradition represents the Word of God in human history and why it is one of his most important contributions to modern and contemporary theology. They will discover how his contribution restores the animated vitality between the institutional and liturgical dimensions of tradition essential to the living, dynamic nature of Catholicism.
Law Beyond Israel Zellentin, Holger M
2022, 2022-09-05, 2022-08-08
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The Hebrew Bible formulates two sets of law: one for the Israelites and one for the gentile “residents” living in the Holy Land. Law Beyond Israel: From the Bible to the Qur’an argues that these ...biblical laws for non-Israelites form the historical basis of qur’anic law. The study corroborates its central claim by assessing laws for gentiles in late antique Jewish and especially in Christian legal discourse, pointing to previously underappreciated legal continuity from the Hebrew Bible to the New Testament and from late antique Christianity to nascent Islam. This volume first sketches the legal obligations that the Hebrew Bible imposes on humanity more broadly and, more specifically, on the non-Israelite residents of the Holy Land. It then traces these laws through Second Temple Judaism to the early Jesus movement, illustrating how the biblical laws for residents inform those formulated in the Acts of the Apostles. Building on this legal continuity, the study employs detailed historical and literary analyses of legal narratives in order to make three propositions. First, rabbinic laws for gentiles, the so-called Noahide Laws, while offering a more lenient interpretation than the one we find in Acts, are equally based on the biblical laws for gentile residents of the Holy Land. Second, Christians generally appreciated and even expanded the gentile laws of Acts. Third, the Qur’an remakes traditional Arabian religious practice by formulating its own distinctive approach to the biblical laws for gentiles, in close continuity with—and at times in critical distance from—late antique Jewish and especially Christian gentile law.
Celebrating the fortieth anniversary of this seminal book,
this new edition includes an illuminating foreword by Carlos Eire
and Ronald K. Rittges The seeds of the swift and sweeping
religious ...movement that reshaped European thought in the 1500s were
sown in the late Middle Ages. In this book, Steven Ozment traces
the growth and dissemination of dissenting intellectual trends
through three centuries to their explosive burgeoning in the
Reformations-both Protestant and Catholic-of the sixteenth century.
He elucidates with great clarity the complex philosophical and
theological issues that inspired antagonistic schools, traditions,
and movements from Aquinas to Calvin. This masterly synthesis of
the intellectual and religious history of the period illuminates
the impact of late medieval ideas on early modern society. With a
new foreword by Carlos Eire and Ronald K. Rittgers, this modern
classic is ripe for rediscovery by a new generation of students and
scholars.
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