Wiley Blackwell Companion to Catholicism

Provides a broad and deep survey of Roman Catholic life and thought, updated and expanded throughout
 
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Catholicism provides an authoritative overview of the history, doctrine, practices, and expansion of Catholicism. Written by a group of distinguished scholars, this comprehensive reference work offers an illuminating account of the global, historical, and cultural phenomena of Catholicism. Accessible chapters address central topics in the practice of Catholic theology and the development of doctrine, including God and Jesus Christ, creation and Church, the Virgin Mary, the sacraments, moral theology, eschatology, and more. Throughout the text, the authors illustrate the unity and diversity of Catholic life and thought while highlighting the ways Catholicism overlaps with, and transforms, other ways of living and thinking.
 
Now in its second edition, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Catholicism is fully updated to include recent developments in the study of Catholicism. Extensively revised and expanded chapters, many of which written by new authors, address contemporary issues such as theology and politics, environmentalism, and the clerical sexual abuse crisis. Entirely new chapters cover the early modern Church, the Bible in Catholic theology, the Eastern Catholic churches, liturgy, care for creation, the consecrated life, challenges for the Catholic Church, and more.
 
An informed and engaging intellectual journey through the past and present of Roman Catholicism, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Catholicism:
* Illustrates the diversity of modern Catholic life and thought
* Describes Catholics in different lands, including the Holy Land, India, Africa, Europe, the British Isles, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas
* Surveys spirituality and ecumenism, inter-religious dialog, Catholic schools and hospitals, art and the sciences, the Holy See, and other central Catholic institutions and practices
* Covers major eras in Catholic history, from the Scriptures and the early Church to Post-Modernity
* Features new material on diverse practices of Catholicism across cultures, the global dimensions of the Catholic Church, race and ethnicity, and Eastern Catholic Churches
 
The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Catholicism, Second Edition, is the ideal textbook for surveys classes on Catholicism and Catholic theology in Catholic, Protestant, and non-confessional colleges and universities. It is also an invaluable resource for scholars and general readers interested in broadening their knowledge of Catholicism.

List of contents

List of Contributors x
 
Introduction: A Seamless Coat of Many Colors xix
Frederick C. Bauerschmidt, James J. Buckley, Jennifer Newsome Martin, and Trent Pomplun
 
Part I Catholic Histories 1
 
1 The Old Testament 3
Claire Mathews McGinnis
 
2 The New Testament 17
Luke Timothy Johnson
 
3 The Early Church 31
Angela Russell Christman and Andrew Mercer
 
4 The Middle Ages 44
Frederick C. Bauerschmidt
 
5 The Reformation 57
Carlos M.N. Eire
 
6 The Baroque Age 75
Trent Pomplun
 
7 Modernity and Postmodernity 87
Grant Kaplan
 
Part II Catholic Cultures 101
 
8 The Holy Land 103
David B. Burrell, C.S.C.
 
9 India 116
Michael Amaladoss, S.J.
 
10 Africa 127
Emmanuel Katongole
 
11 Europe 144
Emmanuel Perrier O.P.
 
12 Catholicism in Britain and Ireland 162
Maria Power, Stephen Bullivant, and Tim Kinnear
 
13 Latin American Catholicism 174
Michelle A. Gonzalez
 
14 North America 186
Sandra Yocum
 
15 Asia 202
Peter C. Phan
 
16 Oceania 217
Tracey Rowland
 
Part III Catholic Doctrines 231
 
17 The Practice of Catholic Theology 233
Joseph Augustine Di Noia, O.P.
 
18 Scripture in the Making of Catholic Theology 247
Olivier-Thomas Venard, O.P.
 
19 The Development of Doctrine 262
John E. Thiel
 
20 God 278
Matthew Levering
 
21 Creation and Human Beings 289
Philip Porter
 
22 Christology 301
Bruce D. Marshall
 
23 The Holy Spirit 314
Elizabeth T. Groppe
 
24 Mary 326
Trent Pomplun
 
25 Church 338
Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J. and Michael M. Canaris
 
26 The Liturgy and Sacraments 352
Susan K. Wood, SCL
 
27 Catholic Moral Theology 366
Jana Marguerite Bennett
 
28 The End, or Ends 378
James J. Buckley
 
Part IV Catholic Institutions and Practices 393
 
29 The Holy See 395
Francis A. Sullivan, S.J. and Michael M. Canaris
 
30 The Eastern Catholic Churches 408
Christiaan Kappes
 
31 Catholicism and Consecrated Life 420
Gill Goulding, CJ
 
32 Spirituality 431
Wendy M. Wright
 
33 Liturgy and Ritual 445
Kimberly Hope Belcher
 
34 Ecumenism 454
Michael Root
 
35 Interreligious Dialogue 468
Gavin D'Costa
 
36 Art and Literature 482
Jennifer Newsome Martin
 
37 Theology and Politics 496
William T. Cavanaugh
 
38 Justice and Peace 510
Kelly S. Johnson
 
39 Race, Ethnicity, and Catholicism 522
Joseph S. Flipper
 
40 Schools, Charities, Hospitals 536
Michael J. Baxter
 
41 Care for Creation, Environmentalism, and Ecology 550
Matthew Philipp Whelan
 
42 Challenges for the Catholic Church 565
Christopher Altieri
 
Index 579

About the author

FREDERICK C. BAUERSCHMIDT is Professor of Theology at Loyola University Maryland and a Deacon of the Archdiocese of Baltimore. He has published more than 50 essays in academic journals and books and is the author of seven books, including The Essential Summa Theologiae: A Reader and Commentary and The Love That is God: An Invitation to Christian Faith. JAMES J. BUCKLEY is Professor Emeritus of Theology at Loyola University Maryland. His articles have appeared in Modern Theology, Pro Ecclesia, Theological Studies, The Thomist, and other journals. He is the co-author (with Frederick Bauerschmidt) of Catholic Theology. An Introduction and the co-editor of several volumes in the Pro Ecclesia series. JENNIFER NEWSOME MARTIN is Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame in the Department of Theology and the Program of Liberal Studies. She is the author of Hans Urs von Balthasar and the Critical Appropriation of Russian Religious Thought. Her work has appeared in Modern Theology, Communio: International Catholic Review, and International Journal of Systematic Theology. TRENT POMPLUN is Associate Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of Jesuit on the Roof of the World: Ippolito Desideri's Mission to Tibet, as well as academic articles published in journals such as Modern Theology, Nova et Vetera, Journal of Religion, and History of Religions.

Product details

• Authors: Frederick C. (Loyola University Bauerschmidt
• Assisted by: Frederick C. Bauerschmidt (Editor), James J. Buckley (Editor), Jennifer Newsome Martin (Editor), Martin Jennifer Newsome (Editor), Trent Pomplun (Editor), Pomplun Trent (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.05.2024
• EAN: 9781119753872
• ISBN: 978-1-119-75387-2
• No. of pages: 640
• Series: Wiley Blackwell Companions to Religion; Blackwell Companions to Religion
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Theologie, Religion, Katholizismus, Theology, Religion & Theology, Religion u. Theologie, Religion u. Kultur, Religion & Culture, Allg. Religion u. Theologie