The Craft of Innovative Theology: Argument and Process

ISBN-13: 9781119601555 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 304 str.

Ian S. Markham; John a. Knight

Spis treści

The Acknowledgments ixContributors xiIntroduction xiiiPart I God and the Incarnation 11 Knowing God through Religious Pluralism 3Tinu RuparellResearch Level 2 32 Is It Possible for the Eternal Word to Be Made Manifest in a Person with Down's Syndrome? 19Ian S. MarkhamResearch Level 1 19Part II God and Church 313 Racial Stigma and Southern Baptist Public Discourse in the Twentieth Century 33Pamela D. JonesResearch Level 1 334 The Plugged-in Church: Is it Appropriate to Baptize Artificial Intelligence 50Ian S. MarkhamResearch Level 1 50Part III God and the World 635 Humanity: Where on Earth Have We Come From and Where Are We Going To? 65Celia Deane-DrummondResearch Level 3 656 What Challenges Does the Theory of Biological Evolution Pose to Christian Theology? 81Christopher SouthgateResearch Level 3 81Part IV God and Ethics 977 Sin and the Faces of Responsibility 99Leigh VicensResearch Level 4 998 A Good Story: Human-Animal Friendship and Meat Eating 114Trevor BechtelResearch Level 2 1149 Just Business: It's Not What You Think 127Kathryn D. BlanchardResearch Level 2 127Part V The End of the World 14910 Relentless Love and the Afterlife 151Thomas J. OordResearch Level 1 15111 Hell: Retributivism, Escapism, and Universal Reconciliation 164Andrei A. BuckareffResearch Level 3 16412 Christ Will Come Again 183Keith WardResearch Level 2 183Part VI Method in Theology 19513 Theological Language and Method in Liberal Theology: Schubert Ogden's Response to the Falsification Controversy 197John Allan KnightResearch Level 4 19714 Does Culture Determine Belief? The Relationship between the Social Sciences and Theology 212Martyn PercyResearch Level 3 21215 Theological Reference and Theological Creativity in Judaism 226Cass FisherResearch Level 4 22616 Marshall's Slingshot: Truth Theory, Realism, and Liberal Theological Method 245John Allan KnightResearch Level 4 245Glossary 261Index 266

O autorze

John Allan Knight is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Marist College, where he teaches courses in religion and the U.S. Constitution, philosophy of religion, religion and politics, and a number of other religious studies courses. He holds degrees from ??Southern Nazarene University, George Washington University Law School, and the University of ??Chicago. Knight is the author of Liberalism vs. Postliberalism: The Great Divide in Twentieth Century Theology (2012), and a number of articles in both scholarly and popular journals. He is currently working on a book on religious freedom and the nature of religious claims.Ian S. Markham is the Dean and President of Virginia Theological Seminary and a priest in the Episcopal Church. He has degrees from King's College London, the University of Cambridge, and a PhD from the University of Exeter. He is the author of numerous books, including Against Atheism: Why Dawkins, Hitchens and Harris are Fundamentally Wrong (Wiley ??Blackwell, 2010), The New Apologetics (2020), A Theology of Engagement (Blackwell, 2003), Truth and the Reality of God (1998), and Plurality and Christian Ethics (1994).