This series re-examines foundational Christian doctrines through a global lens, incorporating perspectives from diverse continents and traditions. It delves into the ecumenical implications of various Christian theologies while also exploring insights from other religious traditions. The books offer reliable introductions to key theological topics, tracing their historical development and considering their relevance to contemporary global challenges like justice, peace, and creation care. Authors engage with new thinking on gender and sociocultural identities, connecting them to the implications of Christian faith in an interconnected world.
Provides introduction to creation, grace and redemption. This work explores Where does human existence stand in a cosmos some 15 billion years old? and How does God respond to our human condition?
This highly praised text provides a contemporary and global perspective on doing Catholic theology, emphasizing theology as an activity, a process, anchored in Scripture and as interpreted by ecclesial Tradition and a theology rooted in the experience that the divine is to be found in a sacramental world and community. Bevans describes systematic theology as reflection upon the central teachings of the church -- creation, sin, redemption, Trinity, anthropology, salvation and eternal life, ecclesiology--in a contextual light, as it makes sense in a world of cultural and religious plurality. This book bears the hallmark of Bevanss work and experience teaching and doing pastoral work on five continents, bringing together insights garnered over a lifetime.
This comprehensive book argues that politics and religion are matters too important to be left to politicians and religious leaders. Himes examines church-state relations from the teachings of the Old and New Testaments through the patristic and medieval eras and the age of reform to the age of revolution, and throughout the 20th century into the third millennium.