Christian social ethics too often lauds in despair. Edmund Arens exploits the normative aspects of Jurgen Habermas's philosophy to construct a fresh and positive Christian theology of action. Its centerpiece is the idea of communicative action, with its premise, that speech is oriented toward eliciting shared conviction.
No single anthology could hope to capture the full scope of Karl Rahner's thought—his publications numbering over 3,500 separate works in the years between 1924 and 1979—but this collection is the best that could possibly be devised, containing 174 selections which reflect the best of Rahner's thought from the early 1950s to 1980.
For fruitful discussion within the Church, for a meaningful dialogue with other Christians, for the renewal of the theology of preaching -- for these and many other reasons, we need a new understanding of the nature of revelation. The usual apologetical treatment of revelation, bent on proving its existence, touches but the fringe of the reality. Our day and age needs a theology of revelation w…
Using as its starting point Nostra Aetate, the historic declaration on Catholicism's relationship to non Christian religions issued in 1965 by Vatican Council II, Father Pawlikowski proceeds to examine contemporary Christology and Judaism, and then incarnational Christology and the continuing vitality of Judaism.
"The most concerted account yet of how the churches' practice might organize theological inquiry as a whole. Browning has opened up important lines of inquiry that merit further investigation." --Craig L. Nessan Southeast Missouri State University "Don Browning manifests a masterful interaction with the current literature on the burgeoning field of practical theology. This book is indispen…
This book breaks new ground in offering an exposition of the theological message of the Shorter Pauline Letters. Karl P. Donfried puts 1 and 2 Thessalonians in their cultural context, and identifies a number of key themes in these letters, such as the notion of election. I. Howard Marshall's study of Philippians brings out especially the understanding of the theological basis of the Christian l…
The Johannine Epistles have long been recognized as contributing a vital element to the theology of the New Testament. Usually it is to the Gospel that the reader turns first in order to explore that contribution; the First Epistle is treated as a supplement, while 2 and 3 John--because of their brevity--receive little attention. This book allows the Epistles to speak for themselves, and shows …