Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? Wisdom in the Bible, the Church and the Contemporary World

by Barton, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780567041517
• ISBN10: 0567041514
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-07
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Summary

What is wisdom - and where is it to be found? A number of experts in a wide range of theological and related disciplines have come together to explore this question.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
Contributors	xi
Introduction	xvii
Part I: Wisdom in Israel and the Church
1. Solomon and Job: Divine Wisdom in Human Life	3	(16)
R.W.L. Moberly
2. Wisdom in the Old Testament	19	(12)
Stuart Weeks
3. Sirach and Wisdom's Dwelling Place	31	(16)
C.T.R. Hayward
4. Wisdom and Holiness at Qumran: Strategies for Dealing with Sin in the Community Rule	47	(14)
Loren T. Stuckenbruck
5. 'Sweet Science Reigns': Divine and Human Wisdom in the Apocalyptic Tradition	61	(14)
Christopher Rowland
6. Jesus: Teacher of Wisdom or Wisdom Incarnate?	75	(18)
James D.G. Dunn
7. Gospel Wisdom	93	(18)
Stephen C. Barton
8. Wisdom According to Paul	111	(14)
Richard B. Hays
9. Augustine, Wisdom and Classical Culture	125	(14)
Carol Harrison
10. Wisdom Within or Without? Denys the Carthusian and the Predicament of Late Medieval Mysticism	139	(16)
Denys Turner
11. What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? Newman, Wisdom and the Idea of a University	155	(14)
Sheridan Gilley
12. Wisdom and the Russians: The Sophiology of Fr Sergei Bulgakov	169	(16)
Andrew Louth
Part II: Wisdom in Contemporary Philosophy, Theology and Ethics
13. Intelligence, Wisdom and Folly	185	(10)
Mary Midgley
14. Seeking Wisdom: Moral Wisdom or Ethical Expertise?	195	(16)
Brenda Almond
15. The Wisdom of the Social Sciences: The Self, Society arid Popular Culture in a Postmodern Age	211	(20)
Bernice Martin
16. The Grace of God and Earthly Wisdom	231	(18)
Daniel W. Hardy
17. Christ, the Wisdom of God: A Study in Divine and Human Action	249	(14)
Colin Gunton
18. Sophia or Gnosis? Christianity and New Age Spirituality	263	(16)
Linda Woodhead
19. Wisdom and Natural Law: A Christian Feminist Enquiry	279	(16)
Susan F. Parsons
20. Wisdom as the End of Morality	295	(12)
Robert Song
21. Does Ethical Wisdom Lie in Worship?	307	(14)
Alan Suggate
22. Learning Moral and Spiritual Wisdom	321	(14)
Jeff Astley
23. Disturbing the Wise? Or the Wisdom of the Disturbed? Liberating Truth and Theological Education	335	(14)
Mary Grey
24. 'Crying Out for Discernment': Premodern Marriage in Postmodern Times	349	(14)
Adrian Thatcher
25. Wisdom and Passion: Wittgenstein, Kierkegaard, and Religious Belief	363	(18)
Colin Crowder
Suggestions for Further Reading	381	(2)
Index of Modern Authors	383