Contributor
McFarland, Ian A. (Ian Alexander), 1963-
Edition Statement:1st ed.
Imprint:Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press, c2009.
Descriptionxxxiii, 460 p. ; 23 cm.
Note:Chapter 1. GOD AS CREATOR: 1. First apology / Justin Martyr -- 2. To Autolycus, book 2 / Theophilus of Antioch -- 3. On first principles, book 1 / Origen of Alexandria -- 4. Confessions, book 11 / Augustine -- 5. Breviloquium, 2 / Bonaventure -- 6. Summa contra Gentiles, 2:17-19, 38 / Thomas Aquinas -- Christian faith, par. 40-41 / Friedrich Schleiermacher -- 8. The biblical witness concerning creation / Regin Prenter -- 9. The doctrine of creation from nothing / David Kelsey -- 10. Creation out of nothing / Jürgen Moltmann -- 11. The pluri-singularity of creation / Catherine Keller -- 12. Creation "ex nihilo" in time / Dimitru Staniloae -- Chapter 2. THE CREATURE: 1. Against heresies, book 5 / Irenaeus of Lyons -- 2. On the making of humankind / Gregory of Nyssa -- 3. Homilies concerning the statues / John Chrysostom -- 4. Difficulty 41 / Maximus the Confessor -- 5. Summa theologica, 1.93 / Thomas Aquinas -- 6. Ar'n't I a woman? / Sojourner Truth -- 7. The basic form of humanity / Karl Barth -- 8. Woman as answer / Hans Urs von Balthasar -- 9. Toward a feminist anthropology beyond liberalism and romanticism / Rosemary Radford Ruether -- 10. From biological to ecclesial existence: the ecclesiological significance of the person / John Zizioulas -- 11. Contesting the gendered subject: a feminist account of the Imago Dei / Mary McClintock Fulkerson -- Chapter 3. EVIL AND SIN: 1. On first principles, book 1 / Origen of Alexandria -- 2. Against the heathen / Athanasius -- 3. The city of God, book 14 / Augustine of Hippo -- 4. On evil, quest 3 / Thomas Aquinas -- 5. Institutes of the Christian religion, book 2, chapter 1 / John Calvin -- 6. The interior castle, 1 / Teresa of Avila -- 7. Christian faith, par.69, 71-72.2 / Friedich Schleiermacher -- 8. The kingdom of evil / Walter Rauschenbusch -- 9. The reality of nothingness / Karl Barth -- 10. Sin and man's responsibility / Reinhold Niebuhr -- 11. The human situation: a feminine view / Valerie Salving -- 12. God and black suffering / James H. Cone -- 13. The furies and the goodness of God / David Ray Griffin -- 14. Redeeming sin-talk / Stephen G. Ray, Jr. -- 15. Against symbols / Rowan Williams -- Chapter 4. PROVIDENCE: 1. Against heresies, book 3 /rIrenaeus of Lyons -- 2. On the Holy Trinity, Book 3 / Augustine of Hippo -- 3. Summa theologica, 1.22, 103 / Thomas Aquinas -- 4. Showings (long text) / Julian of Norwich -- 5. Institutes of the Christian religion, book 1, chapter 16 / John Calvin -- 6. Christian faith, par.46-47 / Friedrich Schleiermacher -- 7. The Christian belief in providence / Karl Barth -- 8. The future of man / Pierre Teilhard de Chardin -- 9. Why an evolutionary process? / John B. Cobb, Jr., David Ray Griffin -- 10. Action and embodiment / Grace Jantzen -- 11. The doctrine of creation in an age of scientific cosmology / Wolfhart Pannenberg -- 12. God's interaction with the world / Arthur Peacocke -- 13. Is God in charge? / Kathryn Tanner.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
