Diese Reihe untersucht grundlegende christliche Lehren aus globaler Perspektive und bezieht dabei die Perspektiven verschiedener Kontinente und Traditionen ein. Sie befasst sich mit den ökumenischen Auswirkungen verschiedener christlicher Theologien und beleuchtet auch Erkenntnisse aus anderen religiösen Traditionen. Die Bände bieten verlässliche Einführungen in zentrale theologische Themen, verfolgen deren historische Entwicklung und betrachten ihre Relevanz für aktuelle globale Herausforderungen wie Gerechtigkeit, Frieden und Schöpfungsfürsorge. Die Autoren setzen sich mit neuen Denkansätzen zu Gender und soziokulturellen Identitäten auseinander und verknüpfen diese mit den Implikationen des christlichen Glaubens in einer vernetzten Welt.
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.