Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 374 g
Reihe: Blackwell Manifestos
Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 374 g
Reihe: Blackwell Manifestos
ISBN: 978-1-4051-4273-1
Verlag: Wiley
- Represents an outstanding and engaging account of the task of theology today
- Offers an insightful description of what makes for discerning and creative theology.
- Written from the perspective of decades of experience, and in close dialogue with theologians of other faiths
- Features a strong interfaith and public theology dimension, and a contemporary portrait of the field from the inside
- A hopeful and illuminating search for wisdom and understanding in the increasingly complex religious and secular world of the twenty-first century.
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Preface.
Source Acknowledgments.
1 A Cry for Wisdom: Theology for the Twenty-first Century.
From the Twentieth to the Twenty-first Century: Theological Abundance and Variety.
Four Elements of Wise Creativity.
Conclusion.
2 Drama in Bible, Theology, and Life.
The Bible: More Dramatic than Epic or Lyric.
Gospel of John – Epic, Lyric, and above all Dramatic.
Intensity and Extensity in the Ongoing Drama.
Conclusion: Drama, Wise Theological Creativity, and an Unanswered Question.
3 A Dramatic Code for Twenty-first Century Theology.
Modern Secularity and the Health of the Public Sphere.
A Drama-centered Account of Modernity.
A Dramatic Code for Theology Today.
Conclusion: Within and Beyond the Drama.
4 Desire Above All.
A Balanced Dynamic of Theological Moods.
Between Closed Religion and Wide Open Religion.
Theological Moods in Bible and Tradition.
God-centered Moods: The Divine Passive.
5 Belonging: Church, Collegiality, Conversation.
Belonging to God and Each Other through Covenant.
Theological Creativity in and for the Church.
Learning and Teaching Together: Collegiality.
Extended Belonging: Conversations.
Intensive Belonging: Cohabitations, Collaborations, and Movements.
Intimate Belonging: Friendships.
Conclusion: Complex Belonging.
6 Church and Society.
First Case Study: Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Continuing This Drama.
Contemporary Case: Theological Tasks for the Church in Democratic Civil Societies.
7 Inter-Faith Blessing.
A Jewish Blessing: Dabru Emet.
A Muslim Blessing: A Common Word.
Scriptural Reasoning as "First Inter-Faith Theology".
Seeking Wisdom for Inter-Faith Engagement: A Muscat Manifesto.
Civil Wisdom.
8 New Theology and Religious Studies: Shaping, Teaching, and Funding a Field.
What is New Theology and Religious Studies?
A Framework for Creativity.
Other Frameworks.
Curriculum and Teachers.
Funding.
The Global Potential of New Theology and Religious Studies.
9 Becoming a Theologian: The Apprentice.
Disciple and Apprentice.
Retrieval – A Receptive, Reading Self.
Engagement – A Loved and Loving Self.
Thinking – An Imaginative, Discerning Self.
Communication – A Witnessing, Poetic Self.
10 The Bible: Creative Source of Theology.
How the Bible Has Shaped This Manifesto.
What Sort of Bible Reading is This?
The Four Elements of Wise and Creative Theology in the Bible.
A Biblical Hope for Twenty-first Century Theology.
Notes and References.
Index.
