Many Voices, One God

by Guthrie, Shirley C.; Brueggemann, Walter; Stroup, George W.

• ISBN13: 9780664257576
• ISBN10: 0664257577
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-01-01
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Pr

Summary

Pluralism presents both promises and challenges for Christian theology in the future. Here biblical scholars, religious ethicists, and theologians reflect on the meaning and abiding relevance of the Christian revelation for communities of faith and the life of the church.

Table of Contents

Contributors	vii	(2)
Abbreviations	ix
Introduction	1	(14)
George W. Stroup
Part One. BIBLICAL RESOURCES	15	(50)
1. "Exodus" in the Plural (Amos 9:7)	15	(20)
Walter Brueggemann
2. Being Christian in a World of Fear: The Challenge of Doing Theology within a Violent Society	35	(11)
Will Coleman
3. Paul and Multiculturalism	46	(19)
Charles B. Cousar
Part Two. CHRISTIAN FAITH AND CULTURE	65	(30)
4. Confessing Christ in the Religiously Pluralistic Context	65	(13)
Douglas John Hall
5. Reformed Convictions and Religious Pluralism	78	(17)
Donald K. McKim
Part Three. THE CHURCH AND PLURALISM	95	(44)
6. The Rule of Faith: The Early Church's Source of Unity and Diversity	95	(12)
Catherine Gunsalus Gonzalez
7. To Be Catholic: The Church in a Culturally Plural World	107	(15)
C. Benton Kline Jr.
8. The Church as Mother and Bride in the Reformed Tradition: Challenge and Promise	122	(17)
Amy Plantinga Pauw
Part Four. THEOLOGICAL REINTERPRETATION	139	(42)
9. Sin and Self-Loss: Karl Barth and the Feminist Critique of Traditional Doctrines of Sin	139	(16)
Daniel L. Migliore
10. The Cross of Jesus Christ as Solidarity, Reconciliation, and Redemption	155	(12)
William C. Placher
11. The Spirit of Pluralism	167	(14)
George W. Stroup
Part Five. PRACTICAL IMPLICATIONS	181
12. Living into Tensions: Christian Ethics as Mediating Process	181	(12)
Marcia Y. Riggs
13. Practical to the End: Diversity, Empiricism, and the Task of Pastoral Theology	193
Brian H. Childs