Esta serie reexamina las doctrinas cristianas fundamentales desde una perspectiva global, incorporando perspectivas de diversos continentes y tradiciones. Profundiza en las implicaciones ecuménicas de diversas teologías cristianas y explora también perspectivas de otras tradiciones religiosas. Los libros ofrecen introducciones fiables a temas teológicos clave, rastreando su desarrollo histórico y considerando su relevancia para los desafíos globales contemporáneos como la justicia, la paz y el cuidado de la creación. Los autores abordan nuevas ideas sobre género e identidades socioculturales, conectándolas con las implicaciones de la fe cristiana en un mundo interconectado.
Provides introduction to creation, grace and redemption. This work explores Where does human existence stand in a cosmos some 15 billion years old? and How does God respond to our human condition?
This highly praised text provides a contemporary and global perspective on doing Catholic theology, emphasizing theology as an activity, a process, anchored in Scripture and as interpreted by ecclesial Tradition and a theology rooted in the experience that the divine is to be found in a sacramental world and community. Bevans describes systematic theology as reflection upon the central teachings of the church -- creation, sin, redemption, Trinity, anthropology, salvation and eternal life, ecclesiology--in a contextual light, as it makes sense in a world of cultural and religious plurality. This book bears the hallmark of Bevanss work and experience teaching and doing pastoral work on five continents, bringing together insights garnered over a lifetime.
This comprehensive book argues that politics and religion are matters too important to be left to politicians and religious leaders. Himes examines church-state relations from the teachings of the Old and New Testaments through the patristic and medieval eras and the age of reform to the age of revolution, and throughout the 20th century into the third millennium.