Foundations of Theological Study: A Sourcebook

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Paulist Press, 1991 - 319 sivua
This is a collection of readings in theology, classical and contemporary, intended for college level students. It covers the major themes of an introductory course in theology, the experience of the sacred, the notion of God, Revelation, Jesus Christ, and the Christian life. +

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The Reflective Life and Religious Experience
1
Ultimate concern
11
B Experiences of Transcendence and the Sacred
19
Gods revelation through creation in the scriptures
26
Conversion Experiences
39
A sudden call
48
This
57
Speaking of God through symbol
59
The Holy in Jewish myth and ritual
155
the Passover
161
B The Person and Teaching of Jesus in the New Testament
170
Who was Jesus?
184
the call to discipleship
195
The Development of Christology
203
The Church
209
The mystery of the Church
218

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The ontological wager
86
The unity of the ways of the mind to
98
St Paul and the beginnings
104
Contemporary theologies of revelation
111
Faith in the scriptures
116
The Nature of
129
God as the holy mystery
135
Religious freedom
231
Christian Life
243
Catholic social teaching in the United States
252
Faith seeking understanding
264
The faith that does justice
273
Women in the church
288
Faith and liberation
307
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Sivu 43 - I the unkind, ungrateful ? Ah my dear, I cannot look on thee. Love took my hand, and smiling did reply, Who made the eyes but I ? Truth, Lord, but I have marred them : let my shame Go where it doth deserve.
Sivu 290 - How can this be, since I have no husband?' And the angel said to her. The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy, the Son of God.
Sivu 40 - God ('Thou hast made us for thyself and our hearts are restless till they rest in thee...
Sivu 43 - Batter my heart, three person'd God; for, you As yet but knocke, breathe, shine, and seeke to mend; That I may rise, and stand, o'erthrow mee, 'and bend Your force, to breake, blowe, burn and make me new.
Sivu 290 - Jesus. He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High; and the Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there will be no end.
Sivu 104 - The task of authentically interpreting the word of God, whether written or handed on, has been entrusted exclusively to the living teaching office of the Church, whose authority is exercised in the name of Jesus Christ.
Sivu 278 - ... boy" (however old you are) and your last name becomes "John," and your wife and mother are never given the respected title "Mrs."; when you are harried by day and haunted by night by the fact that you are a Negro, living constantly at tiptoe stance, never quite knowing what to expect next, and are plagued with inner fears and outer resentments; when you are forever fighting a degenerating sense of "nobodiness" then you will understand why we find it difficult to wait.
Sivu 261 - But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation. Woe to you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who are laughing now, for you will mourn and weep. Woe to you when all speak well of you, for that is what their ancestors did to the false prophets.

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