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The task of theology : leading theologians on the most compelling questions for today / edited by Anselm K. Min.

Contributor(s): Min, Anselm Kyongsuk, 1940- [editor.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Maryknoll : Orbis Books, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: xxvi, 266 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781626981058 (pbk.); 1626981051 (pbk.)Subject(s): Theology | Christianity -- 21st centuryDDC classification: 230.01 LOC classification: BR118 | .T37 2014Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Whither contemporary theology? / Anselm K. Min -- "Let us return to the word delivered in the beginning": reflections on the nature and task of Christian theology today / John Behr -- A response to John Behr: Irenaean symphony in a post-establishment world / Rhys Kuzmic -- The deconstruction and reconstruction of Christian identity in a world of différance / Anselm K. Min -- A response to Anselm Min: São Paulo or Vatican III? / Joseph Prabhu -- The repositioning of a theology of the world in the face of globalization and post-secularity: prophecy and crisis / Robert Schreiter -- A response to Robert Schreiter: the church of the Global South: not what we bargained for? / James Fredericks -- Faith and political engagement in a pluralistic world: Beyond the idols of public space / Francis Schüssler Fiorenza -- A response to Francis Schüssler Fiorenza: pluralism, persuasion, and prophets / Paul Miller -- "The prisons fill up": the specter of mass incarceration as compelling theological issue / Mark Lewis Taylor -- A response to Mark Lewis Taylor: the adequacy of trans-immanence for decolonial struggle / William A. Walker III -- Decolonizing Christianity / Susan Abraham -- A response to Susan Abraham: Speaking of that without which not / Marlene Block -- Faith and ecofeminism: religion and the liberation of women and the earth from oppression / Rosemary Radford Ruether -- A response to Rosemary Radford Reuther: hope in the face of limitation / Kirsten Gerdes -- The song of the thrush: Christian animism and the global crisis today / Mark I. Wallace -- A response to Mark I. Wallace: divining boundaries / Fabrizio D' Ambrosio.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Whither contemporary theology? / Anselm K. Min -- "Let us return to the word delivered in the beginning": reflections on the nature and task of Christian theology today / John Behr -- A response to John Behr: Irenaean symphony in a post-establishment world / Rhys Kuzmic -- The deconstruction and reconstruction of Christian identity in a world of différance / Anselm K. Min -- A response to Anselm Min: São Paulo or Vatican III? / Joseph Prabhu -- The repositioning of a theology of the world in the face of globalization and post-secularity: prophecy and crisis / Robert Schreiter -- A response to Robert Schreiter: the church of the Global South: not what we bargained for? / James Fredericks -- Faith and political engagement in a pluralistic world: Beyond the idols of public space / Francis Schüssler Fiorenza -- A response to Francis Schüssler Fiorenza: pluralism, persuasion, and prophets / Paul Miller -- "The prisons fill up": the specter of mass incarceration as compelling theological issue / Mark Lewis Taylor -- A response to Mark Lewis Taylor: the adequacy of trans-immanence for decolonial struggle / William A. Walker III -- Decolonizing Christianity / Susan Abraham -- A response to Susan Abraham: Speaking of that without which not / Marlene Block -- Faith and ecofeminism: religion and the liberation of women and the earth from oppression / Rosemary Radford Ruether -- A response to Rosemary Radford Reuther: hope in the face of limitation / Kirsten Gerdes -- The song of the thrush: Christian animism and the global crisis today / Mark I. Wallace -- A response to Mark I. Wallace: divining boundaries / Fabrizio D' Ambrosio.

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