In order to utilize all of the features of this web site, JavaScript must be enabled in your browser. What does it mean to be human and to be made in the image of God? What does it mean to affirm that humans are free beings? And, what is gender? Marc Cortez guides the reader through the most challenging issues that face anyone attempting to deal with the subject of theological anthropology. Consequently, it addresses complexities surrounding such questions as: Each chapter explains first both why the question under consideration is important for theological anthropology and why it is also a contentious issue within the field.
After this, each chapter surveys and concisely explains the main options that have been generated for resolving that particular question. Finally the author presents to the reader one way of working through the complexity. Those who are interested in a technical, in-depth, or exhaustive treatment of these areas will likely find themselves disappointed and would do well to look elsewhere. The real strength of this book is in its ability to guide its readers into the process of doing theology well.
The introductory nature of the chapters sets the reader on a helpful trajectory for further study. This excellent introduction would be an outstanding resource for pastors, students, and other Christian leaders.
Unlike many other books on ethnography, this book understandings about God, including the idea of God as a frames the practice as a pastoral one that can inform and personal God who enters into relationships with people and transform religious leaders, their ministry, and their com- the idea of God as Trinity. Each essay concludes with a brief munities. There is an abundance of helpful information prayer encapsulating the theme of the essay. In this book, about gaining consent, material gathering and organization God is not subjected to philosophical scrutiny, but described of such material, and how to formulate and re-formulate based on Christian experience.
McGrath has not written a research questions and methods including actual tables, scholarly book making technical arguments. This is a book charts, and graphs. Most of its illustrations are examples are in which complex Christian ideas are asserted rather than drawn from pastors and their congregations.
The book argued for. This thoughtful, honest, and helpful book undergirding the world. By Margaret R.
By Terry Muck and Frances theological questions regarding gender, embodiment, social S. While many of the pop- ful, and theologically sophisticated textbook.
By Dennis Ngien. This book worship even while the same Spirit enables and perfects will challenge both progressives and liberals on the left and human worship. More importantly, sermons on the Song of Solomon subsequently shows how Muck and Adeney present an evangelical mission converted human beings worship through participation in the trinitar- by in depth encounters with religious others even as it bears ian love of God.
By Richard A. This reprinting is sible connections to the systems of Schelling and Hegel. Muller appeals to his readers to approach the cal concepts and critical reception Part III. It condenses without oversimplifying Tilli- world. By James R. Edited by Peters. Ben Quash and Michael Ward. Publishers, Inc. The sermons in this part warn against claims that reason.
This clearly written, accessible gious and philosophical traditions. Still, those seeking a overview of heresies and orthodoxy could be useful in clear articulation of the rationality—understood in its broad- courses introducing Christian doctrines and in church lay est and most robust sense—of Christian faith will gain much discussion groups.
By Michael Plekon. By Terry Rey. London: Equinox, University of Notre Dame Press, Plekon argues that lives of traditional Eastern Orthodox Part of Key Thinkers in the Study of Religion, a series saints are too perfect to inspire emulation by ordinary Chris- designed for undergraduate and introductory graduate tians. These individuals gions. By John M. American University , note 6. Peter Lang Publishing Inc. The prob- for immaterial species of capital.
By Steven B. Princeton respectively. Eugene, OR: Pickwick dates his overall thesis. While perhaps too readily abandon- Publications, Students will logical humility. The journey of Clark Pinnock is exam- researchers. The demise of classical founda- Regent University School of Divinity tionalism and the distress with Old Princeton theological approaches e. LeRon Shults and Andrea Holl- temological shifts drive the quest for a more holistic ingsworth.
Guides to Theology. He also Hollingsworth have divided the book into two sections. Revitaliz- major contributions to pneumatology. Finally, the authors identify three Timothy Lim T. Also included are essays on teaching toler- gence of the concept of force.
These provide the basis for ance and solidarity in Palestine and Egypt, economics and their suggestions regarding the future of pneumatology. One liberation thought in Latin America, and the role of women strength of The Holy Spirit is the diversity of traditions that it in leadership positions in South East Asia.
The work is addresses, including Roman Catholicism, Eastern Ortho- capped by an essay by Werner Jeanrond on how Christian doxy, Pentecostalism, feminist perspectives, liberation the- perspectives of love might assist in transformation of a glo- ology, and numerous strands of Protestantism.
By eschewing the creation of a concise manner, and consequently, this book promises to be larger theory of globalization, as well as by offering several a valuable reference for students and seasoned scholars different European voices on the impacts of globalization on alike. David Bradnick Several of its authors are theologically and ethically ori- Regent University School of Divinity ented, and this work does not seek to offer a broad overview to sociological trends or demographics.
By Stefan Forrest Clingerman Skrimshire. New York: Continuum, Edited by Jon cal visions of the future promote or hinder those visions and Stewart. Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and movements. He argues that vague crisis states such as the Resources, Vol.
Burlington, VT: Ashgate, This fear and and Resources. The series is the most important single anxiety causes people to focus on the present circumstances collection of secondary literature on Kierkegaard to be pub- rather than analyze the future.
The book concludes by arguing that religious While not every chapter will be found relevant for the Anglo- visions can create and sustain positive social change. Edited by Sturla J. Oslo: Novus diverse movements as dialectical theology, philosophy of Press, NOK The book is not appropriate for an intro- research program at the University of Oslo. By Phyllis Tickle.
Using the Becker and those theologians who understand human sin to events leading to the Great Reformation as a model, she be freely chosen and yet inevitable due to social and per- interprets the major social and cultural changes of the twen- sonal factors. According to Becker, religion is far better than sweeping statement like this. Recommended for Christianity, in the churches of Latin America, Asia, and seminary and university libraries and theologians with an especially Africa.
An interpretation of the Great Emergence interest in cultural anthropology and psychology. By Notto R. Translated by Brian McNeil. By Al Tizon. Regnum Studies in Mission. In taking two stories that are not usually paired—such an evangelical agenda seeking a much more holistic under- as Song of Songs and the woman who anoints Jesus—he opens standing of Christian witness and salvation.
A specialist in interreligious dialogue, Thelle presents holistic mission, and the power of the Holy Spirit in mission. The book is successful in its goal of grounded in facile stereotypes. Yet the book also seems to have overplayed the Krista E. That being said, the book is a welcome addition to the the development of each component of the Four Fold Gospel. By Daniel J. Indeed, he registers Christology more broadly as a particular challenge to any theological appropriation of either a dualist or physicalist theory.
In keeping with the more exploratory approach of this chapter he notes rather than resolves these challenges. When he turns to the chapter on Free Will, Cortez likewise covers classical and contemporary debates, in this instance between compatibilism and libertarianism.
Again the issues are treated fairly and the theological implications are explored. Once again, in considering the theological appropriation of either of these approaches, Cortez turns to Christology. He notes that attempts to look to the person and work of Jesus to shape the theological understanding of free will are undeveloped.
Repeating the approach of the previous chapter, this and other challenges are noted rather than resolved. I register just three point of critique. Secondly, given that this book is part of a series designed to introduce students and other readers to a field of enquiry, I suspect that most theological students would find the chapters on Mind and Body and Free Will hard going.
The bulk of each chapter is oriented to logical and conceptual distinctions which will strike new students as being at one remove from the more explicit theological discourse employed in the earlier two chapters.
Either way, this identity needs to be explained and defended. Overall this is a good book whose readers are mostly well served in being introduced to this important, indeed Herculean, topic.
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