Walter Kasper's Response to Modern Atheism

Walter Kasper's Response to Modern Atheism
Author: Ralph N. McMichael
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2006
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780820450377

The development and pervasiveness of modern atheism as well as secularization poses an acute challenge to Christian theology. Theologians have either ignored this challenge or have sought to meet it in a variety of ways. Throughout his theological career, Walter Kasper (1933-) has maintained that theology has the mutual tasks of exposition of the Christian faith and of responding to contemporary challenges to this faith. In his seminal work The God of Jesus Christ (1982), he argues that the proper Christian response to modern atheism is the confession of the Trinity. In making this response, Kasper begins to chart a course for all future Christian apologetics, for all efforts to give an account of Christian hope (1 Peter 3:15).

Christianity and Confucianism

Christianity and Confucianism
Author: Christopher Hancock
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 697
Release: 2020-12-10
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567657698

Christianity and Confucianism: Culture, Faith and Politics, sets comparative textual analysis against the backcloth of 2000 years of cultural, political, and religious interaction between China and the West. As the world responds to China's rise and China positions herself for global engagement, this major new study reawakens and revises an ancient conversation. As a generous introduction to biblical Christianity and the Confucian Classics, Christianity and Confucianism tells a remarkable story of mutual formation and cultural indebtedness. East and West are shown to have shaped the mind, heart, culture, philosophy and politics of the other - and far more, perhaps, than either knows or would want to admit. Christopher Hancock has provided a rich and stimulating resource for scholars and students, diplomats and social scientists, devotees of culture and those who pursue wisdom and peace today.

The Trinity and Theodicy

The Trinity and Theodicy
Author: Jacob H. Friesenhahn
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2016-02-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1317013026

Why does God permit the great suffering and evil that we see in our world? This basic question of human existence receives a fresh answer in this book as the mystery of evil is explored in the context of the mystery of the Trinity. God's permission of evil and the way in which suffering can lead human persons into the life of the Trinity are discussed in dialogue with the great Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar. In the light of Balthasar's model of the Trinity as divine self-giving love, we gain a profound grasp of the nature of suffering in human life by placing our suffering in the context of the divine life of the Triune God.

The Theology of Cardinal Walter Kasper

The Theology of Cardinal Walter Kasper
Author: Kristin Colberg
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2014
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0814683150

Leading theologians from across the United States and Canada explore the full scope of Kasper's thought on topics such as the character of ecumenical and interreligious dialogue, Christology, theological method, and the nature of the church-world relationship. Kasper himself presents four previously unpublished texts: on the interpretation of Vatican II, on forgiveness, on Christian hope, and on the approach to theology today. -- from the publisher.

The Lord's Service

The Lord's Service
Author: Jeffrey J. Meyers
Publisher: Canon Press & Book Service
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2003
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1591280087

The Lord's Service is a description and defense of covenant renewal worship.

The God of Jesus Christ

The God of Jesus Christ
Author: Walter Kasper
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2012-03-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 144117740X

Kasper is a master synthesiser, and his display of erudition alone makes this book a worthy read and an invaluable resource for questions of God and Trinity. Using admittedly polemical language, he calls for a 'theological theology' which makes the explanation of the confession of the triune God its first priority, not only for speculative but also for pastoral reasons. This is the reissue of a theological work of considerable importance for which Cardinal Kasper has written an entirely new introduction taking modern developments in theology fully into account.

An Introduction to Christian Theology

An Introduction to Christian Theology
Author: Richard J. Plantinga
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 687
Release: 2022-11-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1108846416

Far from being solely an academic enterprise, the practice of theology can pique the interest of anyone who wonders about the meaning of life. This introduction to Christian theology – exploring its basic concepts, confessional content, and history – emphasizes the relevance of the key convictions of Christian faith to the challenges of today's world. Part I introduces the project of Christian theology and sketches the critical context that confronts Christian thought and practice today. Part II offers a survey of the key doctrinal themes of Christian theology, including revelation, the triune God, and the world as creation, identifying their biblical basis and the highlights of their historical development before giving a systematic evaluation of each theme. Part III provides an overview of Christian theology from the early church to the present. Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition of An Introduction to Christian Theology includes a range of new visual and pedagogical features, including images, diagrams, tables, and more than eighty text boxes, which call attention to special emphases, observations, and applications to help deepen student engagement.

The Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology

The Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology
Author: Russell Re Manning
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 647
Release: 2013-01-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0199556938

The Oxford Handbook of Natural Theology" explores the diversity and vitality o natural theology, both historically and as an issue of contemporary concern.

Quest for the Living God

Quest for the Living God
Author: Elizabeth A. Johnson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 334
Release: 2011-07-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1441142665

'Since the middle of the twentieth century,' writes Elizabeth Johnson, 'there has been a renaissance of new insights into God in the Christian tradition. On different continents, under pressure from historical events and social conditions, people of faith have glimpsed the living God in fresh ways. It is not that a wholly different God is discovered from the One believed in by previous generations. Christian faith does not believe in a new God but, finding itself in new situations, seeks the presence of God there. Aspects long-forgotten are brought into new relationships with current events, and the depths of divine compassion are appreciated in ways not previously imagined.' This book sets out the fruit of these discoveries. The first chapter describes Johnson's point of departure and the rules of engagement, with each succeeding chapter distilling a discrete idea of God. Featured are transcendental, political, liberation, feminist, black, Hispanic, interreligious, and ecological theologies, ending with the particular Christian idea of the one God as Trinity.