Books
The moral gap : Kantian ethics, human limits, and God’s assistance - John E. Hare
Call Number: BJ1275 H24 1996
ISBN/ISSN: 0198263813
Is morality too difficult for human beings? Kant said that it was, except with God's assistance. Contemporary moral philosophers have usually discussed the question without reference to Christian doctrine, and have either diminished the moral demand, exaggerated human moral capacity, or tried to find a substitute in nature for God's assistance. This book looks at these philosophers--from Kant and Kierkegaard to Swinburne, Russell, and R.M. Hare--and the alternative in Christianity. (Amazon Book Description)
Beyond ritual : sacramental theology after Habermas - Siobhán Garrigan
Call Number: BR118 .G32X 2004
ISBN/ISSN: 0754636119
In Beyond Ritual, Siobhan Garrigan uses Habermas's theory of communicative action to suggest two things: first, a method by which theology can access the ritual symbols by which faith is formed; and secondly a metaphor of intersubjectivity with which theology can propose an interpretative, rather than an instrumental, understanding of sacramentality - and thus of God. Through fieldwork studies of both 'marginal' and 'mainstream' Christian Eucharists, Garrigan develops the conversation between Habermas's philosophy and Christian theology, showing how ritual interactions form, and challenge, our very idea of God. (Amazon Book Description)
The world calling : the church’s witness in politics and society - Thomas W. Ogletree
Call Number: BR517 .O35 2004
ISBN/ISSN: 0664228747
Thomas Ogletree has devoted much of his career to exploring the significance of Ernst Troeltsch's seminal work, "The Social Teaching of the Christian Church." The articles in "The World Calling" use a Troeltschian lens to explore fundamental issues underlying any Christian social witness in the context of American democratic institutions. (Amazon Book Description)
In a blaze of glory : womanist spirituality as social witness - Emilie M. Townes
Call Number: BR563 N4 T68 1995
ISBN/ISSN: 0687187575
Womanist spirituality, the author asserts, grows out of individual and communal reflection on African American faith and life. In this book, she explains that womanist spirituality is not grounded in the notion that spirituality is a force, a practice separate from who we are moment by moment. It is the deep kneading of humanity and divinity in one breath, one hope, one vision. (Amazon Book Description)
Gregory of Nazianzus on the Trinity and the knowledge of God : in your light we see light - Christopher A. Beeley
Call Number: BR65.G66 B44X 2008
ISBN/ISSN: 0195313976
Gregory of Nazianzus (329-390 C.E.) has had an immeasurable influence on the Eastern and Western Christian traditions. Along with his homiletical, ecclesiastical, and literary achievements, Gregory's doctrine of the Trinity became the definitive expression of the orthodox faith in Greek Christian tradition, which caused him to be the only person other than John the Evangelist to be granted the title of "Theologian" by an ecumenical church council. As a testimony to Gregory's importance, he is the most cited author after the Bible in Byzantine Christian literature.
Christopher Beeley's groundbreaking study -- -the first comprehensive treatment in modern scholarship -- examines Gregory's doctrine of the Trinity in the full range of his theological and practical vision. Following an overview of Gregory's life and major theological works, Beeley examines Gregory's teaching on a vast range of subjects: the purification and illumination of the theologian; the human limitations and the divine possibilities of the knowledge of God; the unique identity of Christ; Gregory's dynamic understanding of divinization"; and the distinctive place of the Holy Spirit in Christian theology. Beeley's expansive discussion culminates in Gregory's understanding of the Trinity as a whole, which proves to be the fundamental principle of all Christian doctrine and practice. Finally, Beeley identifies the Trinitarian shape and purpose of pastoral ministry, of which Gregory is also the seminal theorist in Christian tradition.
Beeley offers new insights in several key areas, including the reinterpretation of the famous Theological Orations and Christological epistles within the larger framework of Gregory's corpus. Long eclipsed in twentieth-century scholarship, Gregory's doctrine is now brought into full view as the major Greek witness to the Trinity as the governing principle and the main interpretive framework of the Christian life.
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Faith, reason, and the existence of God - Denys Turner
Call Number: BT50 .T87 2004
ISBN/ISSN: 0521602564
Denys Turner argues that there are reasons of faith why the existence of God should be thought rationally demonstrable and that it is worthwhile revisiting the theology of Thomas Aquinas to see why. The proposition that the existence of God is demonstrable by rational argument is doubted by nearly all philosophical opinion today and is thought by most Christian theologians to be incompatible with Christian faith. Turner's robust challenge to the prevailing orthodoxies will be of interest to believers as well as non-believers. (Amazon Book Description)
Ecologies of grace : environmental ethics and Christian theology - Willis Jenkins
Call Number: BT695.5 .J464X 2008
ISBN/ISSN: 0195328515
Christianity struggles to show how living on earth matters for living with God. While people of faith increasingly seek practical ways to respond to the environmental crisis, theology has had difficulty contextualizing the crisis and interpreting the responses.
In Ecologies of Grace, Willis Jenkins presents a field-shaping introduction to Christian environmental ethics that offers resources for renewing theology. Observing how religious environmental practices often draw on concepts of grace, Jenkins maps the way Christian environmental strategies draw from traditions of salvation as they engage the problems of environmental ethics. He then uses this new map to explore afresh the ecological dimensions of Christian theology.
Jenkins first shows how Christian ethics uniquely frames environmental issues, and then how those approaches both challenge and reinhabit theological traditions. He identifies three major strategies for making environmental problems intelligible to Christian moral experience. Each one draws on a distinct pattern of grace as it adapts a secular approach to environmental ethics. The strategies of ecojustice, stewardship, and ecological spirituality make environments matter for Christian experience by drawing on patterns of sanctification, redemption, and deification.
He then confronts the problems of each of these strategies through critical reappraisals of Thomas Aquinas, Karl Barth, and Sergei Bulgakov. Each represents a soteriological tradition which Jenkins explores as an ecology of grace, letting environmental questions guide investigation into how nature becomes significant for Christian experience.
By being particularly sensitive to the ways in which environmental problems are made intelligible to Christian moral experience, Jenkins guides his readers toward a fuller understanding of Christianity and ecology. He not only makes sense of the variety of Christian environmental ethics, but by showing how environmental issues come to the heart of Christian experience, prepares fertile ground for theological renewal. (Amazon Book Description)
After our likeness : the church as the image of the trinity - Miroslav Volf
Call Number: BV4405 V65 1998
ISBN/ISSN: 0802844405
In After Our Likeness, Miroslav Volf explores the relationship between persons and community in Christian theology. He seeks to counter the tendencies toward individualism in Protestant ecclesiology and give community its due. (Amazon Book Description)
Exclusion and embrace : a theological exploration of identity, otherness, and reconciliation - Miroslav Volf
Call Number: BV4509.5 V64 1996
ISBN/ISSN: 0687002826
The end of memory : remembering rightly in a violent world - Miroslav Volf
Call Number: BV4597.565 .V65X 2006
ISBN/ISSN: 0802829899
Can one forget atrocities? Should one forgive abusers? Ought we not hope for the final reconciliation of all the wronged and all wrongdoers alike, even if it means spending eternity with perpetrators of evil? We live in an age when it is generally accepted that past wrongs -- genocides, terrorist attacks, bald personal injustices -- should be constantly remembered. But Miroslav Volf here proposes the radical idea that letting go of such memories -- after a certain point and under certain conditions -- may actually be the appropriate course of action.
While agreeing with the claim that to remember a wrongdoing is to struggle against it, Volf notes that there are too many ways to remember wrongly, perpetuating the evil committed rather than guarding against it. In this way, "the just sword of memory often severs the very good it seeks to defend." He argues that remembering rightly has implications not only for the individual but also for the wrongdoer and for the larger community.
Volf's personal stories of persecution offer a compelling backdrop for his search for theological resources to make memories a wellspring of healing rather than a source of deepening pain and animosity. Controversial, thoughtful, and incisively reasoned, The End of Memory begins a conversation hard to ignore. (Amazon Book Description)
Canonical theism : a proposal for theology and the church - edited by William J. Abraham, Jason E. Vickers, Natalie B. Van Kirk
ISBN/ISSN: 0802862381
Free of charge : giving and forgiving in a culture stripped of grace - Miroslav Volf
Call Number: BV4647.G45 V65X 2005
ISBN/ISSN: 0310265746
An exploration of how we can be transformed by the God who gives abundantly and who forgives unconditionally. (Amazon book Description)
Articles and Essays
The following is a selection of recent (last 10 years) articles and essays written in the area of theology by Yale Divinity School faculty members:
Beeley, Christopher A. "Divine Causality and the Monarchy of God the Father in Gregory of Nazianzus." Harvard Theological Review 100, no. 2 (04, 2007): 199-214.
Britton, Joseph. "The Breadth of Orthodoxy: On Phillips Brooks." In One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism, 144-162. Grand Rapids; Cambridge; Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications; William B Eerdmans, 2006.
———. "Beneath the Cross of Jesus: Finding the Other." Anglican Theological Review 86, no. 4 (Fall, 2004): 567-571.
———. ""Dispersed Authority" : An Historical and Theological Critique of the 1948 Lambeth Conference Report." Anglican and Episcopal History 68, no. 2 (06, 1999): 231-259.
———. "Piety and Moral Consciousness : Contributions from the Mystical Realism of Abraham Joshua Heschel." Anglican Theological Review 81, no. 3 (Sum, 1999): 391-411.
Jenkins, Willis. "Episcopalians, Homosexuality, and World Mission." Anglican Theological Review 86, no. 2 (Spr, 2004): 293-316.
———. "Ethnohomophobia?" Anglican Theological Review 82, no. 3 (Sum, 2000): 551-563.
Kelsey, David H. "Personal Bodies: A Theological Anthropological Proposal." In Personal Identity in Theological Perspective, 139-158. Grand Rapids, Mich.; Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications; Eerdmans, 2006.
———. "Wisdom, Theological Anthropology, and Modern Secular Interpretation of Humanity." In God's Life in Trinity, 44-60. Minneapolis; Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications; Fortress, 2006.
———. "Spiritual Machines, Personal Bodies, and God: Theological Education and Theological Anthropology." Teaching Theology & Religion 5, no. 1 (02, 2002): 2-9.
———. ""Formation" and Theological Schooling." Greek Orthodox Theological Review 43, no. 1-4 (1998): 29-47.
Lakeland, Paul. "Accountability, Credibility, and Authority." New Theology Review 19, no. 1 (02, 2006): 6-14.
———. "What is the Theologian Doing?" Catholic Theological Society of America Proceedings 58, (2003): 94-95.
———. "Is the Holy Wholly Other, and is the Wholly Other really Holy? Reflections on the Postmodern Doctrine of God." In Divine Aporia, 57-69. Lewisburg [Pa.]; London; Cranbury, NJ; Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications; Bucknell University Press; Associated University Presses, 2000.
Townes, Emilie M. "On Keeping Faith with the Center." In Living Stones in the Household of God, 189. Minneapolis; Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications; Fortress Pr, 2004.
———. "Panel Response to Marcella Althaus-Reid's Indecent Theology." Feminist Theology: The Journal of the Britain & Ireland School of Feminist Theology 11, no. 2; 2 (01, 2003): 167.
———. "Growing Like Topsy: Womanist Reflections on Dreams and Nightmares." In Dream Unfinished, 98-116. Maryknoll, N.Y.; Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications; Orbis Books, 2001.
———. "A Womanist Perspective on Spirituality in Leadership." Theological Education 37, no. 2 (2001): 81-100.
———. "Searching for Paradise in a World of Theme Parks." In Black Faith and Public Talk, 105-125. Maryknoll, NY; Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications; Orbis, 1999.
———. "Girlfriend, You can't do that, and here's Why." Journal of Women and Religion 16, (1998): 72-80.
———. "Womanist Theology : Dancing with Twisted Hips." In Introduction to Christian Theology, 212-224. Louisville, Ky; Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications; Westminster/John Knox Pr, 1998.
Turner, Denys. "Dionysius and some Late Medieval Mystical Theologians of Northern Europe." Modern Theology 24, no. 4; 4 (10, 2008): 651-665.
———. "The Heresy of the Free Spirit: Are there Two Kinds of Christian, those with Divine Wills and those with Human Wills?" In Heresies and how to Avoid them, 113-121. London; Peabody, Mass; Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications; SPCK; Hendrickson Pubs, 2007.
———. "Doing Theology in the University." In Fields of Faith, 25-38. Cambridge; Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications; Cambridge Univ Pr, 2005.
———. "How to Read the Pseudo-Denys Today?" International Journal of Systematic Theology 7, no. 4 (10, 2005): 428-440.
———. ""Sin is Behovely" in Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love." Modern Theology 20, no. 3 (07, 2004): 407-422.
———. "On Denying the Right God: Aquinas on Atheism and Idolatry." Modern Theology 20, no. 1 (01, 2004): 141-161.
———. "Tradition and Faith." International Journal of Systematic Theology 6, no. 1 (01, 2004): 21-36.
———. "Atheism, Apophaticism and "Différance"." In Theology and Conversation, 689-708. Leuven; Uitgeverij Peeters, 2003; Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications; Leuven Univ Pr, 2003.
———. "Material Poverty Or Poverty of Spirit? Holiness and the Liberation of the Poor." In Holiness Past and Present, 441-459. London; New York; Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications; T & T Clark, 2003.
———. "Apophaticism, Idolatory and the Claims of Reason." In Silence and the Word, 11-34. Cambridge; Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications; Cambridge Univ Pr, 2002.
———. "Liberation Theology in Britain Today." Political Theology no. 3 (11, 2000): 64-79.
———. "The Darkness of God and the Light of Christ: Negative Theology and Eucharistic Presence." Modern Theology 15, no. 2; 2 (04, 1999): 143.
———. "The Art of Unknowing: Negative Theology in Late Medieval Mysticism." Modern Theology 14, no. 4; 4 (10, 1998): 473.
Volf, Miroslav. "God's Forgiveness and Ours: Memory of Interrogations, Interrogation of Memory." Anglican Theological Review 89, no. 2 (Spr, 2007): 213-225.
———. "A Voice of One's Own: Public Faith in a Pluralistic World." In Democracy and the New Religious Pluralism, 271-281. New York; Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications; Oxford Univ Pr, 2007.
———. "Dancing for God: Challenges Facing Theological Education." Evangelical Review of Theology 29, no. 3 (07, 2005): 197-207.
———. "God at Work." Word & World 25, no. 4 (Fall, 2005): 381-393.
———. "Johannine Dualism and Contemporary Pluralism." Modern Theology 21, no. 2 (04, 2005): 189-217.
———. "The Trinity and the Church." In Trinitarian Soundings in Systematic Theology, 153-174. London; New York; Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications; T & T Clark, 2005.
———. "Worship as Adoration and Action: Reflections on a Christian Way of being-in-the-World." In Worship at the Next Level, 30. Grand Rapids; Ithaca, NY: Snow Lion Publications; Baker Book House, 2004.
———. "Living with the "Other"." Journal of Ecumenical Studies 39, no. 1; 1 (2002): 8.
———. "The Nature of the Church." Evangelical Review of Theology 26, no. 1; 1 (01, 2002): 68.
———. "The Final Reconciliation: Reflections on a Social Dimension of the Eschatological Transition." Modern Theology 16, no. 1; 1 (01, 2000): 91.
Volf, Miroslav and William Katerberg. "Retrieving Hope." Perspectives 20, no. 3 (03, 2005): 14.
Volf, Miroslav and Linn Tonstad. "Bearing True Witness." In The Ten Commandments for Jews, Christians, and Others, 179-193Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2007.
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