Awake to the moment

• Titel: Awake to the moment
• Titelzusatz: an introduction to theology ; the workgroup on constructive theology
• Mitwirkende: Schneider, Laurel C. [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Ray, Stephen G. [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: Laurel C. Schneider and Stephen G. Ray Jr., editors
• Ausgabe: First edition
• Verlagsort: Louisville, Kentucky
• Verlag: WJK, Westminster John Knox Press
• E-Jahr: 2016
• Jahr: [2016]
• Umfang: xii, 238 Seiten
• Format: 23 cm
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-208) and index
• ISBN: 0-664-26188-4
• ISBN: 978-0-664-26188-7
• Sprache: eng
• Reproduktion: Online version: Schneider, Laurel C., 1961- author: Awake to the moment. - Louisville, KY: Westminster John Knox Press, 2016
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Rezensiert in: Platter, Jonathan M.: Awake to the Moment: An Introduction to Theology, Laurel C. Schneider and Stephen G. Ray (eds.), WJK, 2016 (ISBN 978-0-664-26188-7), xii + 240 pp., pb 35
• K10plus-PPN: 1629865257

Abstract

For more than forty years, the Workgroup on Constructive Theology has brought the liberal and liberationist theological traditions into creative encounter with lived human experience. In this introduction to the methods and tasks of theology, they invite a new generation of readers, many who will have little or no exposure to Christian doctrine, to see theology as a partner in the struggle for a better world. They demonstrate how theological ideas have "legs," playing themselves out not only in religious communities but in the public square as well. Theology, the authors tell us, is constructive when it joins in God's work of building human lives and human societies. Readers will learn to think about all of life in light of their religious commitments and to see theology as an essential tool for a life well lived. - book blurb