Conversation, Friendship and Transformation: Contemporary and Medieval Voices in a Theology of Discourse

ISBN-13: 9780367595609 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 182 str.

Jennifer Constantine Jackson

Opis

Ground-breaking in its interdisciplinary approach, Conversation, Friendship and Transformation invites readers to an exploration of theological reflection on conversation and friendship as transformative ways of knowing self, others and God. Augustine’s De doctrina christiana and Confessions manifest a foundational example o

Spis treści

Introduction by David Burrell, C.S.C.

1 Exercises in Conversation: Revisioning and Retrieval

2 Contemporary Invitations to a Theology of Discourse

3 Augustine’s Semiotics of Creation and Revelation as Primary Spiritual Exercises

4 Exercises in Memory and Conversion in the Epistolary Discourse of Heloise and Abelard

5 Towards a Theology of Discourse in the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas

Conclusion

O autorze

Jennifer Constantine Jackson holds a Th.D. in systematic theology from Regis College and the University of Toronto. She is currently chairperson of the Theology and Religious Studies Department at Rosemont College and serves on the internal board of Rosemont’s Institute for Ethical Leadership and Social Responsibility. Publications include ‘Sapienter amare poterimus: On Rhetoric and Friendship in the Letters of Heloise and Abelard’ in Friendship in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: Explorations of a Fundamental Ethical Discourse (2011). Her research areas are: Aquinas studies, rhetorical theology, and theological anthropology.