Cette série réexamine les doctrines chrétiennes fondamentales sous un angle mondial, en intégrant les perspectives de divers continents et traditions. Elle explore les implications œcuméniques de diverses théologies chrétiennes tout en examinant les perspectives d'autres traditions religieuses. Les ouvrages proposent des introductions fiables aux thèmes théologiques clés, retraçant leur développement historique et considérant leur pertinence face aux défis mondiaux contemporains tels que la justice, la paix et la protection de la création. Les auteurs abordent de nouvelles réflexions sur le genre et les identités socioculturelles, les reliant aux implications de la foi chrétienne dans un monde interconnecté.
Provides introduction to creation, grace and redemption. This work explores Where does human existence stand in a cosmos some 15 billion years old? and How does God respond to our human condition?
This highly praised text provides a contemporary and global perspective on doing Catholic theology, emphasizing theology as an activity, a process, anchored in Scripture and as interpreted by ecclesial Tradition and a theology rooted in the experience that the divine is to be found in a sacramental world and community. Bevans describes systematic theology as reflection upon the central teachings of the church -- creation, sin, redemption, Trinity, anthropology, salvation and eternal life, ecclesiology--in a contextual light, as it makes sense in a world of cultural and religious plurality. This book bears the hallmark of Bevanss work and experience teaching and doing pastoral work on five continents, bringing together insights garnered over a lifetime.
This comprehensive book argues that politics and religion are matters too important to be left to politicians and religious leaders. Himes examines church-state relations from the teachings of the Old and New Testaments through the patristic and medieval eras and the age of reform to the age of revolution, and throughout the 20th century into the third millennium.