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List of contents
Introduction by David Burrell, C.S.C.
1 Exercises in Conversation: Revisioning and Retrieval
2 Contemporary Invitations to a Theology of Discourse
3 Augustine’s Semiotics of Creation and Revelation as Primary Spiritual Exercises
4 Exercises in Memory and Conversion in the Epistolary Discourse of Heloise and Abelard
5 Towards a Theology of Discourse in the Summa Theologiae of Thomas Aquinas
Conclusion
About the author
Jennifer Constantine Jackson holds a Th.D. in systematic theology from Regis College and the University of Toronto. She is currently chairperson of the Theology and Religious Studies Department at Rosemont College and serves on the internal board of Rosemont’s Institute for Ethical Leadership and Social Responsibility. Publications include ‘Sapienter amare poterimus: On Rhetoric and Friendship in the Letters of Heloise and Abelard’ in Friendship in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age: Explorations of a Fundamental Ethical Discourse (2011). Her research areas are: Aquinas studies, rhetorical theology, and theological anthropology.
Summary
Ground-breaking in its interdisciplinary approach, Conversation, Friendship and Transformation invites readers to an exploration of theological reflection on conversation and friendship as transformative ways of knowing self, others and God. Augustine’s De doctrina christiana and Confessions manifest a foundational example o
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"Ultimately, Jackson mounts a persuassive invitation to re-vision theology as friendship, rigorously understood and lived, in the intrinsically cruciform exercise of our conversation with God and our human neighbors." -- Nathan Lefler, University of Scranton
"Ambitious, highly scholarly, and truly innovative [...] a remarkable achievement."
Paul J. Wadell, St. Norbert College
