Synopses & Reviews
In this collection of essays, members of the College Theology Society explore how Christianity, as an historical religion, is responding to the challenge of multiple readings of history. The many new ways of writing history -- women's history, history written from the perspective of minority groups, new sources of history, including those that are non-Western, and deconstructist history -- pose challenges to the assumptions of traditional theology. They also affect our understanding of the history of Christianity and of the development of Christian doctrine.
Table of Contents
Introduction: practicing history, practicing theology / Terrence W. Tilley--The changing geography of church history / Justo L. Gonzâalez--Universalist pluralism and the new histories / Michael Horace Barnes--History of geography? Gadamer, Foucault, and theologies of tradition / Vincent J. Miller--Rewriting early Christian history / Elizabeth A. Clark--How the lion roars : contexualizing the nine riddles in Amos 3:3-8 / Barbara Green--Rahner and the "new histories" : everything old is new again / Ann R. Riggs--Meaning and practice in history : Lonerganian perspectives / Donna Teevan--The priest in the movie : On the waterfront as historical theology / James T. Fisher--Revealing resistance : Luise Rinser's celebration and suffering / Pamela Kirk-- Cotton Patch Justice, Cotton Patch Peace: The Sermon on the Mount in the Teachings and Practices of Clarence Jordan / Ann Coble--Liberty in an Age of Coercion and Violence / Franklin H. Littell--Celibacy and Sexual Malpractice: Dimensions of Power and Powerlessness in Patriarchal Society \ Brian F. Linnane--Experiential Learning in Service of a Living Tradition \ Margaret R. Pfell.