- Author
- Petersen, Rodney L. and Nancy M. Rourke, eds.
- Publisher
- Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI
- ISBN
- 802849644
- Book Review Link
- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1467-9647.00182/abstract
- Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments
Foreword (Rodney L. Petersen)
Pt. I Theology: What is the Real Thing?
ch. 1 On Theological Education: A Reflection (David Tracy)
ch. 2 Theology and Theologians: An Orthodox Perspective (Alkiviadis C. Calivas)
ch. 3 On the Complexity of Theological Literacy (Roberty Cummings Neville)
ch. 4 Renewing Ways of Life: The Shape of Theological Education (S. Mark Heim)
ch. 5 Identity, Formation, Dignity: The Impacts of Artificial Intelligence upon Jewish and Christian Understandings of Personhood (Anne Foerst and Rodney L. Petersen)
Pt. II Theology and Institutional Expression
ch. 6 Where Catholicism Has Been, and Where It Is Going (Raymond G. Helmick)
ch. 7 The Theological Is Also Personal: The "Place" of Evangelical Protestant Women in the Church (Alice Mathews)
ch. 8 Public Works: Bridging the Gap between Theology and Public Ethics (William Johnson Everett)
ch. 9 Christian Scholarship and the Demographic Transformation of the Church (Andrew F. Walls)
Pt. III Hermeneutics: How We Understand and Interpret the Bible
ch. 10 Theological Literacy for the Twenty-first Century (Walter C. Kaiser, Jr.)
ch. 11 The Ethos of Interpretation: Biblical Studies in a Postmodern and Postcolonial Context (Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza)
ch. 12 Living in the Hyphen: Theological Literacy from an Hispanic American Perspective (Alvin Padilla)
ch. 13 Reading the World Religiously: Literate Christianity in a World of Many Religions (Francis X. Clooney)
Pt. IV The Rhetoric of Theology
ch. 14 Healing Traumatic Memories: A Spiritual Journey (Ruth H. Bersin)
ch. 15 A Prophetic Religious Education for Y2K and Beyond: And Black Boys Shall See Visions (Fred Smith)
ch. 16 Theological Literacy and Fluency in a New Millennium: A Pastoral Theological Perspective (Carrie Doehring)
ch. 17 Theological Literacy: Some Catholic Reflections (Brian O. McDermott)
ch. 18 Theological Literacy: Problem and Promise (Wesley J. Wildman)
ch. 19 Wisdom for Life: The Horizon of Theological Literacy (Thomas Groome)
Pt. V Theological Literacy in Seminary and University
ch. 20 Theological Education as Formation for Ministry (John E. MacInnis)
ch. 21 The Classic Idea of the University: Its Relevance in the Twenty-first Century (Jan Milic Lochman)
Contributors
Index of Names and Subjects
Index of Scripture References
What constitutes theological literacy in the new millennium? Scholars such as Elisabeth Schssler Fiorenza and David Tracy discuss this weighty question in Theological Literacy for the Twenty-First Century, a heavy but thoughtful collection of essays. The book's most helpful aspect is its diversity of Christian traditions: there are discussions of evangelical, Orthodox, Catholic and mainline Protestant views here, and contributors also weigh in about Hispanic, African-American and feminist hermeneutics. The essayists' understanding of what is required for theological literacy may be a bit inflated (how many people in the pews spout five-gallon words such as "postcoloniality" or "grandiloquent"?), but academics will appreciate the collection's depth and currency. (From the Publisher)