Envisioning the Good Life

Who is God? What is God's relation to the world? How is God disposed towards us? What does God ask of us? These questions are not mere intellectual puzzles. They matter for us. A disinterested theology would be no theology at all, for we are fundamentally, at our very core, invested in God. God is the one who concerns us most deeply. Put differently, any theology worth the name is, as Miroslav Volf has put it, theology ""for a way of life."" We ask theological questions as those whose lives depend on the God whose character we try to articulate in the answers--and also in the asking. How we ask and answer these questions gives shape to our lives. In this volume, published in Volf's honor, leading Christian, Jewish, and Muslim theological scholars reflect on the shapes flourishing human life takes in light of God. Considering concrete questions--from how to talk about suffering to the value of singing in congregational worship--in light of their deep theological commitments, the contributors exemplify the kind of theological reflection our cultures so deeply need. Contributors to this volume: Matthew Croasmun Ryan McAnnally-Linz Marianne Meye Thompson David H. Kelsey Michael Welker Christoph Schwobel Alon Goshen-Gottstein Reza Shah-Kazemi Jurgen Moltmann Natalia Marandiuc Nancy Bedford Nicholas Wolterstorff Lidija Matosevic Ivan Sarčevic Linn Marie Tonstad

Author: Matthew Croasmun
Publisher: Cascade Books
Published: 05/01/2017
Pages: 252
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781498235235

About the Author
Matthew Croasmun (PhD, Yale University) is Associate Research Scholar at the Yale Center for Faith & Culture at Yale Divinity School and Lecturer of Divinity and Humanities at Yale University. He is author of The Emergence of Sin (2016).

Zoran Grozdanov, (PhD, University of Zagreb, Croatia) is a lecturer at the Center for Protestant Theology, University in Zagreb. He is editor of the Oecumenica and Ars Haeretica series Ex libris publishing house in Croatia. Among his publications are: Harsh Word: The Death of God in Early Moltmann and Early Hegel (2016) and Theology: Descent into the Vicious Circles of Death (Wipf & Stock, forthcoming).

Ryan McAnnally-Linz (PhD, Yale University) is Associate Research Scholar at the Yale Center for Faith & Culture at Yale Divinity School and Lecturer of Divinity and Humanities at Yale University. He is co-author with Miroslav Volf of Public Faith in Action (2016).