Tradition and Pluralism: Essays in Honor of William M. Shea

by Kenneth L. Parker (Editor), Peter A. Huff (Editor), Michael J.G. Pahls (Editor)

Overview

This collection of essays by a host of leading scholars of religion reflects on the urgent theological questions of our day. They present a worthy commendation of the life and academic career of William M. Shea—particularly his instinctive empathy for the 'other' and the contribution of multiple voices in our understanding of humanity, of religion, and of Christianity. These selections address contemporary challenges in the church, academy, and society, such as epistemology, culture, ecumenical/inter-religious dialogue, and the manifold nature of human religious experience.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761844594
Publisher:	University Press of America
Publication date:	12/27/2008
Series:	Jacob Neusner Series: Religion/Social Order
Pages:	382
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Kenneth L. Parker is Associate Professor of Theology at Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri. Peter A. Huff is T. L. James Associate Professor of Religious Studies Chair, Department of Religious Studies at Centenary College of Louisiana, Shreveport, Louisiana. Rev. Michael J. G. Pahls is a Priest of the Anglican Mission in America and Adjunct Professor of Theology at Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 EPISTEMOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTION: Experience and Narrative
Chapter 2 Is Naturalism the Disease?
Chapter 3 Lonergan and Shea on Belief and Knowledge:Positions, Counter-Positions, and Contemporary Challenges
Chapter 4 The Religious Obligation to Be Intelligent
Chapter 5 Moral Autonomy in the Church: Lonergan and the Natural Law
Chapter 6 THEOLOGY AND AMERICAN CULTURES: A Bull in the China Shop: Bill Shea and the Professionalization of Theology at Saint Louis University
Chapter 7 That "Boot on Your Neck" Feeling: An Appreciation of Albany's Irish-Catholic Democratic Machine
Chapter 8 Anna Hanson Dorsey: Gender and the Discourse of Nineteenth-Century U.S. Catholic Apologetics
Chapter 9 .Francis Kenrick and Papal Infallibility: How Pastoral Experience in the American Missions Transformed a Roman Ultramontanist
Chapter 10 Genealogy of a Metaphor: Evolution and the "Warfare" Between Science and Religion
Chapter 11 The Lion and the Lamb in the Borderlands: Applying Shea's Analysis of Evangelicals and Catholics to Mexico
Chapter 12 ECUMENISM AND INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE: Rabbinic Utopia
Chapter 13 The Pope and Fundamentalism: Benedict XVI and theDevelopment of the Papal Doctrine of Fundamentalism
Chapter 14 Rescuing Regensburg
Chapter 15 Conventional Folly: Islamophobia and Double Standards in Public Discourse about Islam and Muslims
Chapter 16 Reflections on the Controversy over Pius XII and the Holocaust
Chapter 17 THEOLOGY AND RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE: "Continual Self-Contemplation": John Henry Newman's Critique of Evangelicalism
Chapter 18 Writing A Scholarly Screenplay: "William Wordsworth and the Will of God"
Chapter 19 From Autobiography to the Ethics of Theological Reflection in Augustine and William Shea