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List of contents
- PART I: CATHOLIC TEACHING
- The Enterprise of Catholic Theology
- 1: Lewis Ayres: What is Catholic Theology?
- 2: Matthew Levering: The Scriptures and their Interpretation
- 3: Balázs Mezei: Faith and Reason
- 4: William Desmond: Analogy and the Fate of Reason
- God, the Creation, and the History of Salvation
- 5: John McDade: Creation and Salvation
- 6: Thomas Weinandy: The Trinity's Loving Act of Creation
- 7: Nicholas E. Lombardo OP: Evil, Suffering, and Original Sin
- 8: Emmanuel Durand OP: Nicholas E Lombardo OP
- 9: Thomas Weinandy OFM Cap.: The Incarnation
- 10: Thomas Joseph White OP: The Holy Spirit
- 11: Paul McPartlan: The Church
- 12: Emery DeGaal: Our Lady and the Saints
- 13: Paul O'Callaghan: Eschatology
- The Sacramental Life
- 14: David Fagerberg: The Sacramental Life
- 15: Pamela Jackson: The Liturgy
- 16: Frederick Bauerschmidt: Eucharist
- 17: Susan Wood, SCL: Holy Orders
- 18: David Cloutier: Marriage and Sexuality
- 19: Daniel Keating: Mission and Evangelization
- 20: Martin Laird OSA: Prayer
- Catholic Moral Theology
- 21: Medi Ann Volpe: Catholic Moral Anthropology
- 22: Livio Melina: Virtue and Catholic Moral Theology
- 23: Kevin Flannery, SJ: The Natural Law in Catholic Ethics
- 24: Joseph Wawrykow: Grace and Justification
- 25: Jana Bennett: Life and Death
- 26: David Matzko McCarthy: Catholic Social Teaching
- 27: Chad Pecknold: Catholic Teaching on Politics and the State
- PART II: MODERN CATHOLIC THEOLOGY
- Sources in Catholic Theology up to Vatican I
- 28: Lewis Ayres: Origen and Augustine
- 29: Wayne Hankey: Denys and Later Platonic Traditions
- 30: William Harmless: Monastic Theology
- 31: John Slotemaker and Ueli Zahnd: Thomas and Scholasticism to 1870
- 32: Aaron Canty: Bonaventure and the Franciscan Tradition
- 33: Trent Pomplun: Early Modern Catholic Theology (1500-1700)
- 34: Rik Van Nieuwenhove: Catholic Piety from the Devotio Moderna to the Legacy of Pierre de Bérulle
- 35: Ulrich L. Lehner: Catholic Theology and the Enlightenment
- 36: Grant Kaplan and Holly Taylor Coolman: The Development of Doctrine: The Tübingen School and John Henry Newman
- 37: Christian D. Washburn: The Councils of Trent and Vatican I
- Catholic Theology Since 1870
- 38: Francesca Aran Murphy: Thomism 870-1963
- 39: Serge-Thomas Bonino OP: Thomism from 1962-2012
- 40: Gabriel Flynn: Ressourcement and Theologies of Communion
- 41: Declan Marmion: Transcendental Thomisms
- 42: Kevin Mongrain: Hans Urs von Balthasar
- 43: David Schindler Jr.: Catholic Personalism up to John Paul II
- 44: Kimberly Belcher: Sacramental and Liturgical Theology 1900-2000
- 45: Mary Healey: Biblical Interpretation since Divino afflante spiritu
- 46: Gavin D 'Costa: The Second Vatican Council
- 47: Roberto Goizueta: Theologies of Liberation
- 48: Ian Ker: New Ecclesial Movements and Communities
- 49: Danielle Nussberger: Catholic Feminist Theology
- 50: Peter Fritz: Catholic Theology and Heidegger
- 51: José Granados: The Theology of the Body
- 52: Vimal Tirimanna: Asian Theology
- 53: Antony Akinwale OP: Catholic Theology in Africa
- 54: Paul D. Murray: Roman Catholicism and Ecumenism
- 55: Jaroslav Skira: Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy
- 56: Michael Barnes, SJ: Catholic Theology and other Religions
About the author
Lewis Ayres is Professor of Catholic and Historical Theology at Durham University and Professional Fellow at the Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia. His published works include Nicaea and Its Legacy (Oxford University Press, 2004) and Augustine and the Trinity (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
Medi Ann Volpe has taught at Emory University in the USA and at Cranmer Hall, St John's College Durham in the UK. She is the author of Rethinking Christian Identity: Doctrine and Discipleship (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013).
Summary
The Oxford Handbook of Catholic Theology provides a one-volume introduction to all the major aspects of Catholic theology. Part One considers the nature of theological thinking, and the major topics of Catholic teaching, including the Triune God, the Creation, and the mission of the Incarnate Word. It also covers the character of the Christian sacramental life and the major themes of Catholic moral teaching. The treatments in the first part of the Handbook offer personal syntheses of Catholic teaching, but each offers an account in accord with Catholic theology as it is expressed in the Second Vatican Council and authoritative documentation. Part Two focuses on the historical development of Catholic Theology. An initial section offers essays on some of Catholic theology's most important sources between 200 and 1870, and the final section of the collection considers all the main movements and developments in Catholic theology across the world since 1870.
This comprehensive volume features fifty-six original contributions by some of the best-known names in current Catholic theology from the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa. The chapters are written in an engaging and easily comprehensible style functioning both as a scholarly reference and as a survey of the field. There are no comparable studies available in one volume and the book will be an indispensable reference for students of Catholic theology at all levels and in all contexts.
