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Faith Challenges Culture provides a description of the way modern culture challenges Christian faith and theology. It also shows that since modern faith is to an important extent the result of Christian reflection on the world and the human condition, faith is likewise meant to challenge and renew culture.
List of contents
Chapter 1. The Terms
Section I. Faith Challenges Culture
Chapter 2. Faith Challenging Culture: Biblical Ethics and Anthropology
Chapter 3. How Faith Challenges Culture
Section II. Culture Challenges Faith
Chapter 4. How Culture Challenges Faith, I: The Meaning of Rationality
Chapter 5. How Culture Challenges Faith, II: Individualism and Freedom
Chapter 6. How Culture Challenges Faith, III: Equality and Solidarity
Chapter 7. How Culture Challenges Faith, IV: Conquest and Gratitude
Epilogue: Integrating Conservatism and Progressive Liberalism
About the author
Paul O'Callaghan is professor of Christian anthropology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome and fellow of the Pontifical Academy of Theology. He is the author of The Christological Assimilation of the Apocalypse (2004) and Christ Our Hope: An Introduction to Eschatology (2011).
Summary
Faith Challenges Culture provides a description of the way modern culture challenges Christian faith and theology. It also shows that since modern faith is to an important extent the result of Christian reflection on the world and the human condition, faith is likewise meant to challenge and renew culture.
