Faith Seeking UnderstandingFaith Seeking Understanding

2004-06-14 Daniel L. Migliore

Theology as Faith Seeking Understanding According to one classical definition , theology is " faith seeking understanding " ( fides quaerens intellectum ) . This definition , with numerous variations , has a long and rich tradition .

Author: Daniel L. Migliore

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

ISBN: 080282787X

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Daniel Migliore's Faith Seeking Understanding has been a standard introduction to Christian theology for more than a decade. The book's presentation of traditional doctrine in freshly contemporary ways, its concern to hear and critically engage new voices in theology, and its creative and accessible style have kept it one of the most stimulating, balanced, and readable guides to theology available. This second edition of Faith Seeking Understanding features improvements from cover to cover. Besides updating and expanding the entire text of the book, Migliore has added two completely new chapters. The first, "Confessing Jesus Christ in Context," explores the unique contributions to Christian theology made by recent theologians working in the African American, Asian American, Latin American, Hispanic, feminist, womanist, and mujerista traditions. The second new chapter, "The Finality of Jesus Christ and Religious Pluralism," addresses the growing interest in the relationship of Christianity to other religions and their adherents. Migliore's three delightful theological dialogues are followed by a new appendix, an extensive glossary of theological terms, making the book even more useful to students seeking to understand the history, themes, and challenges of Christian belief.

Faith Seeking Understanding Faith Seeking Understanding

2012-06-26 David Marshall

Anselm also spoke famously of “faith seeking understanding,” as the slogan is usually translated. You criticize natural theologians for failing to recognize that faith in God is “properly basic,” a perception that often precedes ...

Author: David Marshall

Publisher: William Carey Publishing

ISBN: 9781645080275

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How does the Christian faith help us see into the true nature of life more clearly? Why do people suffer? Where do we come from? What does Jesus have to say to a changing world? What can we learn from great mission pioneers about seeking truth at the cutting edges of human knowledge? Faith Seeking Understanding explores such questions. Notable Christian thinkers such as Philip Yancey, Alvin Plantinga, Rodney Stark, Allan Chapman, Don Richardson, Yuan Zhiming, and more share powerful insights that, from the perspective of Christian faith, help answer people's deepest questions in the twenty-first century. Inspired by the lives and accomplishments of Paul Brand and Ralph D. Winter, this book seeks to apply the curious, open-minded, and compassionate spirit these Christian leaders exhibited to key contemporary questions in science, history, philosophy, theology, and comparative religion. The reader will gain a fresh appreciation for the intellectual challenges of the Christian faith, and some of the most fascinating and sometimes controversial ways in which those challenges are being met.

Faith Seeking UnderstandingFaith Seeking Understanding

2007 John M. Shackleford

St. Anselm ( 1037-1109 ) advises us that faith and the intellect are partners in understanding the reality in ... my mind it appears a neglect if , after we are established in the faith , we do not seek to understand what we believe .

Author: John M. Shackleford

Publisher: Paulist Press

ISBN: 0809144514

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"Faith Seeking Understanding promotes the idea that one can approach an understanding of God through the study of science. Religious faith and scientific inquiry should not be seen as competitors diametrically opposed to each other but as complementary ways to assist the human quest for knowledge and deeper meaning of existence. Science is viewed primarily as a gift from God." "The author, with his background in both science and theology, provides the reader with an understanding of human participation in God's creation. John Shackleford explores the scientific evidence for a personal, loving God in a positive dialogue between Christian faith and science that will be thought-provoking for college and university students, along with those interested in how science and religious faith intersect."--BOOK JACKET.

Yesteryear s Faith Seeking UnderstandingYesteryear s Faith Seeking Understanding

2022-06-24 Philip John Fisk

“I understand that velle means 'to will,' but what does nolle mean? ... I have adapted and expanded this section from Fisk, A Book of Faith Seeking Understanding, and from my published research on Charles Morton's teaching transcribed ...

Author: Philip John Fisk

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

ISBN: 9781666734058

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The voices of yesteryear’s scholastics are silenced. Scholastic distinctions discarded. Faith seeking understanding cancelled. This book turns to university professors who brought classical, medieval, Reformation, and Renaissance thought to bear on the teaching of the doctrine of providence at the early New England Colleges. Their ultimate purpose was to exonerate God from the charge that he was the author, even actor, of evil. Their scholastic method drew from a long and surprisingly ecumenical and philosophical enterprise in the history of the church. This book’s aim is to let the scholastic approaches to the mystery of divine providence speak for themselves. Part One introduces the reader to the art of disputation and provides a guided historical-theological tour of scholastic distinctions that were used by doctors of the church to explain issues related to the doctrine of divine providence. Part Two invites the reader to follow the author on his journeys to Harvard, Yale, the College of New Jersey, and the College of Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations’ commencement-day disputations as he engages in Platonic-like dialogues with presidents, rectors, and students of the New England Colleges. While the dialogues are imagined, the characters, times, locations, and quoted texts are real.

A Book of Faith Seeking UnderstandingA Book of Faith Seeking Understanding

2021-11-23 Philip John Fisk

Indeed, it was Anselm who successfully “pioneered” and demonstrated the power of both reason and dialectic in Christian faith seeking understanding.2 e composition of the dialogue between Anselm and his interlocutor Boso in Why God ...

Author: Philip John Fisk

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

ISBN: 9781666724394

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Far too often, the God of the philosophers, those who for the most part had no appointment at a university, are the primary sources relied upon by many authors nowadays in their approach to the problem of evil. These fifty-two Lord's day or Sabbath day readings draw the reader into a dialogue with university professors of the late medieval era and sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The theme of these literary renditions of yesteryear's debates and disputations is the perennial quest by theologians to exonerate God from the charge that he is the author of evil. The sophistication and complexity of their scholastic method and solutions to the problem of evil may surprise, but hopefully will persuade, modern day readers to rethink their own conclusion about the problem, and to take up and read university theologians who were formerly unknown, all in the spirit of Anselm's faith seeking understanding.

Faith Seeking UnderstandingFaith Seeking Understanding

2014-08-08 Daniel L. Migliore

This third edition offers new FOR FURTHER READING suggestions at the end of each chapter, a substantial expansion of the glossary, and new material incorporated throughout, including a section on Christians and Muslims.

Author: Daniel L. Migliore

Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

ISBN: 9781467442213

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A superb, standard Christian theology text for nearly a quarter century, Daniel Migliore's Faith Seeking Understanding explores all of the major Christian doctrines in freshly contemporary ways. This third edition offers new FOR FURTHER READING suggestions at the end of each chapter, a substantial expansion of the glossary, and new material incorporated throughout, including a section on Christians and Muslims. Further, the three imaginary theological dialogues culminating the book -- pointedly playful exchanges that have delighted countless readers -- are here joined by a fourth dialogue, between Karl Barth and Friedrich Nietzsche, on atheism. All in all, a new generation of students, pastors, and Christian educators, eager to better understand the rich heritage, central themes, and contemporary challenges of Christian theology, will find both guidance and stimulation in Migliore's updated work.

Faith Seeking UnderstandingFaith Seeking Understanding

2001 Matthew Charles Ogilvie

From the belief that one has in the teacher's doctrine , one can grow in understanding , and then , with an experience ... As Lonergan writes ( 1994 , 132 154 Matthew C. Ogilvie : Faith Seeking Understanding Doctrines and Understanding.

Author: Matthew Charles Ogilvie

Publisher: Milwaukee : Marquette University Press

ISBN: 0874626757

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How can doctrines be made intelligible within the context of our modern world? This book throws new light on Lonergan's response to this challenge in his presentation of the functional specialty, systematics, within his Method in Theology.

Faith Seeking UnderstandingFaith Seeking Understanding

1981 Robert Earl Cushman

Author: Robert Earl Cushman

Publisher: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press

ISBN: UOM:39015019953820

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Thinking About GodThinking About God

2004-11-10 Gregory E. Ganssle

A phrase that captures how these people thought about this combination is " faith seeking understanding . " Let us consider what it means to operate under faith seeking understanding . Anselm is famous for holding this method .

Author: Gregory E. Ganssle

Publisher: InterVarsity Press

ISBN: 0830827846

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What is God like? What can God do? What can God know? How does God communicate? Philosopher Gregory E. Ganssle appeals to philosophy for some answers to these questions in this introduction to thinking clearly and carefully about God.

An Introduction to Christian Philosophical TheologyAn Introduction to Christian Philosophical Theology

2020-11-17 Stephen T. Davis

Designed for beginning students and non-specialists this guide provides the ideal entry point for not only understanding what philosophical theology is but also for how it can provide valuable insights for how we think about the core ...

Author: Stephen T. Davis

Publisher: Zondervan Academic

ISBN: 9780310104094

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An accessible introduction to Christian philosophical theology Philosophical or analytic theology seeks to employ philosophical tools while studying topics in Christian theology and examining the logical consistency or intelligibility of some of the key doctrines of the Christian faith. In this accessible primer, An Introduction to Christian Philosophical Theology, authors Stephen T. Davis and Eric T. Yang first explain the scope, relevance, and value of philosophical theology and then applies its conceptual tools to examine each of the core Christian doctrines: Revelation and Scripture The Trinity The Incarnation Redemption and the atonement, Resurrection and life after death The final chapter briefly addresses some additional theological issues including petitionary prayer, eschatology, and original sin. Designed for beginning students and non-specialists this guide provides the ideal entry point for not only understanding what philosophical theology is but also for how it can provide valuable insights for how we think about the core doctrines of the Christian faith.