A Theology of Engagement

by Markham, Ian S.

• ISBN13: 9780470773611
• ISBN10: 0470773618
• Edition: 1st
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-02-28
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This ground-breaking book challenges readers to rethink the divide between liberal and orthodox approaches which characterises Christianity today.

• Provides an alternative to the liberal / orthodox divide in contemporary Christianity.
  
• Defends Christianity’s engagement with non-Christian traditions.
  
• Includes important discussion of theological method.
  
• Illustrated with case studies involving human rights, interfaith tolerance, economics, and ethics.

Author Biography

Ian S. Markham is Dean of Hartford Seminary, Connecticut and Professor of Theology and Ethics. He is the author of numerous books, including Plurality and Christian Ethics (1994) and Truth and the Reality of God (1999). For Blackwell Publishing he has edited A World Religions Reader (second edition, 1999) and Encountering Religion (2000). He is the editor of Conversations in Religion and Theology.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments.

Introduction.

1. Engagement: What it is and why it matters.

2. Augustine’s Theological Methodology.

3. Assimilation, Resistance and Overhearing.

4. Assimilation: Engagement with Human Rights.

5. Resistance: The heresy of State Sovereignty and the Religious imperative for intervention to defend Human rights.

6. Assimilation: The Importance of Black and Feminist Perspectives.

7. Overhearing: Clash of Discourses: Secular in the West against the Secular in India.

8. Overhearing: Thinking about Hinduism, Inclusivity and Toleration.

9. Assimilation: Christianity and the Consensus Around Capitalism.

10. Assimilation and overhearing: ‘Rethinking Globalization: Bediuzzaman Said Nursi’s Risale-I Nur in conversation with Empire: By Hardt and Negri.

11. Keith Ward: An Engaged Theologian.

12. Engaging with the Pope: Engagement yet not Engagement.

13. The Shape of an Engaged Theology.

Conclusion.

Notes.

References.

Index.