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Introduction to Theology in Global Perspective

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ISBN-10: 1570758522

ISBN-13: 9781570758522

Edition: 2009

Authors: Stephen B. Bevans

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First, this is a book about doing theology, emphasizing not so much content but theology as an activity, a process. Second, this is a book about doing Catholic theology, that is to say anchored in Scripture but also as interpreted by ecclesial Tradition and Magisterium, theology rooted in the experience that the divine is to be found in a sacramental world and community. At a third level, Bevans describes systematic theology as reflection upon the central teachinkgs of the church - creation, sin, redemption, Trinity, anthropology, salvation and eternal life, ecclesiology. And a fourth key insight, the contextual nature of theology, as it makes sense of life in a global world shot through…    
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Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Orbis Books
Publication date: 9/1/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232

Abbreviations
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Doing Theology
Doing Catholic Theology
Doing Catholic Systematic Theology
Doing Catholic Systematic Theology in Global Perspective
Faith Seeking Understanding: The Nature of Theology
Mystery and Revelation9
Knowing the Unknowable God
Knowing the Mystery
The Mystery of Revelation
Where Revelation Is Found
Revelation as Personal Encounter
Revelation in Context
Conclusion
Questions for Reflection
Suggestions for Further Reading and Study
Faith and Theology
The Dynamics of Faith
Faith as Gift/Faith and Doubt
The Notion of Theology
Faith-Seeking-Understanding
Conclusion
Questions for Reflection
Suggestions for Further Reading and Study
Faith Seeking Understanding in a Global Church
"Variations" on a Theological Theme
Conclusion
Questions for Reflection
Suggestions for Further Reading and Study
Faith Seeking Together: The Ecclesial Nature of Theology
The Community as Source of Theology Doing Theology in Community
Theological Foundations
Doing Theology in Community
Conclusion
Questions for Reflection
Suggestions for Further Reading and Study
Community as Source and Parameter of Theology: Theology and Tradition
Human Existence as Traditional
The Twofold Nature of Tradition
Christian Tradition
The Development of Tradition
Conclusion
Questions for Reflection
Suggestions for Further Reading and Study
Community as the Parameter of Theology: Theology and the Magisterium
The Concept of the Magisterium
Theologians and the Magisterium
The Magisterium and Dissent
Conclusion
Questions for Reflection
Suggestions for Further Reading and Study
The Way Faith Seeks: Theological Methods
Historical Investigation and Theological Reflection: Classical and Contemporary Methods
A Twofold Movement: Historical Investigation and Theological Reflection
Doing Theology as Critical Reflection on Praxis
Conclusion
Questions for Reflection
Suggestions for Further Reading and Study
Contextual Methods
Theology and Context
Models of Contextual Theology
Conclusion
Questions for Reflection?
Suggestions for Further Reading and Study
Catholic Method
The Vision of Catholicism
Tensions in the Vision
Catholicism and Fundamentalism
Conclusion
Questions for Reflection
Suggestions for Further Reading and Study
Faith Seeking through the Ages: Theology, History, and Culture
Christian Theology from the Beginnings to 1000
Theology in the New Testament
Theology in the Second and Third Centuries
Theology from 300 to 600
Theology from 600 to 1000
Conclusion
Questions for Reflection
Suggestions for Further Reading and Study
Christian Theology from 1000 to 1700
Theology from 1000 to 1500
Theology from 1500 to 1700
Theology in 1700
Questions for Reflection
Suggestions for Further Reading and Study
Christian Theology in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuriesxp274
Theology in the Eighteenth Century
Catholic Theology in the Nineteenth Century
Protestant and Anglican Theology in the NineteenthCentury
Theology from 1900 to the Great War
Conclusion
Questions for Reflection
Suggestions for Further Reading and Study
Christian Theology from the Twentieth Century to the Present
Theology from 1914 to the Second Vatican Council
Theology from Vatican II to the Present
Conclusion
Questions for Reflection
Suggestions for Further Reading and Study
Conclusion
Notes
Index