Rethinking Theological Language with Charles S. Peirce
The longstanding debate over how God-talk is intelligible gravitates around how we should understand the putative answer, "by analogy." For some contemporary Christian theologians, analogy involves an ontological claim about creaturely and divine being (i.e., an analogy of being). For others, it involves a semantic or syntactical structure that ......
This unique edited collection illuminates Paul Ricoeur's engagement with Scripture. The contributors include one of the primary translators, several who studied at the University of Chicago, and some of this generation's noted Ricoeur scholars. The essays discuss Hebrew and Christian Scripture, hermeneutics, and biblical scholarship.
Evil and Many Worlds is a free-will theodicy based upon Huw Everett III's 1957 many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. The theodicy argues for a balance of good and evil across an emergent multiverse where free will-a greater good valued by both persons and God- flourishes.
This book investigates Alfred North Whitehead's critiques of analytic philosophy in early nineteenth-century Cambridge and examines the ways in which those critiques both anticipate the problem of intentionality and inform contemporary efforts to resolve it-specifically those of the Pittsburgh School.
Inspired by Philip Hefner's The Human Factor (1993), Simon R. Watson engages Darwin's The Descent of Man (1871), William Paley's Natural Theology (1802), and the twenty-first century Wisdom Christologies of Denis Edwards and Elizabeth Johnson to argue for a liberative theology of nature grounded in a compassionate Christ and an existential fall.
Until his untimely death in 2018, Vitor Westhelle's incisive and probing thought on the church, Luther, and theology shaped a generation. As a continuation of that rich legacy, presented here for the first time in English, is a collection of Westhelle's finest Portuguese-language essays. As a dedicated theologian of the cross, he was committed ......
Digital technologies and the advance of artificial intelligence are changing human nature. This book explores implications for pastoral and spiritual care providers, religious faith communities, clinical practitioners, and educators and asserts the need for theological reflection about both the existential risk and the opportunities of this ......
This book examines the wide panorama of Russian theological reflection found in a variety of sources, including ecclesiastical books, sermons, literature, poetry, theater, historical treatises, scholarly works, and free translations of theology books.
In African Theology, Philosophy, and Religions: Celebrating John Samuel Mbiti's Contribution, contributors study John Samuel Mbiti as the father of a contemporary African theology that is informed and shaped by African culture and scholarship.
