Faith Maps
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In Faith Maps a theologian of great flair and originality 'translates' the voices of several leading thinkers into a series of reflections on faith and contemporary life and culture. The result is both a delightful introduction to theology and religion for students and general readers and a thought-provoking improvisation on familiar themes that will delight specialists.
Gallagher devotes a separate chapter to each of ten writers who have explored the credibility of religious faith, beginning with John Henry Newman and ending with Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI).
But, he writes, 'I do not simply report on what they say. I offer a brief summary of their ideas but I also "translate" their vision into a more contemporary and less specialist idiom. What would they say today? Or, what do they inspire in me? As in music, they are variations on a theme with considerable freedom to go beyond their explicit statements.'
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- Cover
- Front Matter
- Title Page
- Publisher Information
- Faith Maps
- Introduction: Learning from the Giants
- 1: John Henry Newman: the journey of the self
- 2: Maurice Blondel: the theatre of desire
- 3: Karl Rahner: the magnetism of mystery
- 4: Hans Urs von Balthasar: the drama of beauty
- 5: Bernard Lonergan: guidance towards gift
- 6: Flannery O'Connor: assaulting the imagination
- 7: Dorothee Soelle: mystical-activist faith
- 8: Charles Taylor: the pressures of modernity
- 9: Pierangelo Sequeri: horizons of trust
- 10: Joseph Ratzinger: God with a human face
- Conclusion: Converging pillars of wisdom
- End Matter
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