Walking With God in a Fragile World

by Langford, James R.; Rouner, Leroy S.; Coffin, William Sloane; Elizondo, Virgil; Hesburgh, Theodore M.; Hauerwas, Stanley; McManus, Kathleen, O.P.; Armstrong, Karen; Buechner, Frederick; Moltmann, Jurgen; Wiesel , Elie; Langford, Jeremy; Doniger, Wendy

• ISBN13: 9780742514508
• ISBN10: 0742514501
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-11-23
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This is a book of genuine wisdom, one that invites readers not to go back to the way things were before September 11, but to see how they might try to walk with God in a world tht now seems more shattered than ever before.

Author Biography

James Langford is director emeritus of the University of Notre Dame Press, a member of the Core Course faculty at Notre Dame, and president of There Are Children Here, a camp for inner-city children Leroy S. Rouner is professor of philosophy, religion, and philosophical theology and director of the Institute for Philosophy and Religion at Boston University

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. v
Paths and Passages
Walking in the World with a Fragile God	p. 3
God and the World's Disorders	p. 13
Unless You Become like Children	p. 23
And Faith Will Light the Way	p. 35
On the Streets of a Fragile World	p. 47
Believing is seeing
Watching for God	p. 59
Terror and the Christian Faith	p. 73
The Solitude of God	p. 83
Where in the (Postmodern) World Is God?	p. 91
Past the Gates of Hell
Seeing Things as They Really Are	p. 107
September 11, 2001: A Pacifist Response	p. 121
Saving the Flesh	p. 131
Joking with God in a Fragile World	p. 145
Name Index	p. 163
Contributors	p. 165
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