God's Advocates

by Shortt, Rupert

• ISBN13: 9780802830845
• ISBN10: 0802830846
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-15
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

In this valuable entrie to the cutting edge of theology today, veteran journalist Rupert Shortt interviews many of its most outstanding thinkers. Shortt introduces readers to many of the figures who have provoked the recent renaissance in theology -- returning to patristic and medieval sources, reviving Trinitarian teaching, wrestling with gender issues, and speaking to the political dilemmas of our day. These thinkers speak honestly both about their advocacy for God in the academy and about their personal experiences of faith. They also speak honestly about their disagreements over what healthy theology should look like.At a time of sharp conflict between secularists and religious conservatives the thinkers featured in "God's Advocates" neither water down Christian belief nor seal it off from the wider world, instead offering plausible, passionate -- even passionately differing -- accounts of Christian belief.Features Conversations with: Tina Beattie, David Burrell, J. Kameron Carter, Sarah Coakley, Stanley Hauerwas, Christopher Insole, Jean-Luc Marion, David Martin, John Milbank, Joan Lockwood O'Donovan, Oliver O'Donovan, Simon Oliver, Alvin Plantinga, Christoph Schwvbel, Janet Martin Soskice, Miroslav Volf, Samuel Wells, Rowan Williams

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	ii
Acknowledgements	viii
Preface	ix
Belief and Theology: Some Core Questions	1	(23)
Rowan Williams
Philosophical Theology	24	(19)
Janet Martin Soskice
The Philosophy of Religion	43	(24)
Alvin Plantinga
Christopher J. Insole
Fresh Paths in Systematic Theology	67	(19)
Sarah Coakley
The Triune God	86	(17)
Christoph Schwobel
Radical Orthodoxy	103	(23)
John Milbank
Simon Oliver
The New Aquinas	126	(15)
David Burrell
God and the Gift: A Continental Perspective	141	(12)
Jean-Luc Marion
Christianity and Society	153	(22)
David Martin
Theological Ethics	175	(19)
Stanley Hauerwas
Samuel Wells
Feminist Theology	194	(20)
Tina Beattie
Faith and Reconciliation: A Personal Journey	214	(17)
Miroslav Volf
Black Theology	231	(17)
J. Kameron Carter
Political Theology	248	(25)
Oliver O'Donovan
Joan Lockwood O'Donovan
Notes	273	(6)
Index of Names	279