Faith, Hope, Love, and Justice

The Theological Virtues Today

Edited by Anselm K. Min - Contributions by Shane Akerman; Paul E. Capetz; M. Shawn Copeland; Ingolf U. Dalferth; Stephen T. Davis; Francis Schüssler Fiorenza; Mary McClintock Fulkerson; Kirsten Gerdes; Grace Y. Kao; Rhys Kuzmic; Anselm K. Min; Paul Pistone; Joseph Prabhu; Thomas P. Rausch; Elaine A. Robinson and Jonathan Russell

Faith, hope, and love, traditionally called theological virtues, are central to Christianity. This book renews faith, hope, and love in the context of the many contemporary challenges in many unique ways. It is an ecumenical collection of papers, equally divided between Catholic and Protestant positions, that seek to radically renew the classical doctrine of faith, hope, and love, and argues for their essential connection to the praxis of justice. It contains eight different approaches, each represented by a distinguished theologian and addressing different aspects of the issues and followed by insightful and critical responses. It does not merely seek to renew the theological virtues but to also reconstruct them in the demanding context of justice and the contemporary world, nor is it simply a treatise on justice but a theoretical and practical reflection on justice as vital expressions of faith in God, hope in God, and love of God. A non-dogmatic and non-ideological approach, it accommodates both conservative and liberal positions, and avoids the separation of the theological virtues from the demands of the contemporary world as well as the separation of justice talk from the theological context of faith, hope, and love. It seeks above all to renew, not merely repeat, the classical doctrine of faith, hope, and love in the contemporary context of the urgency of justice, and to do so ecumenically, comprehensively, and from a variety of perspectives and aspects.

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Pages: 264 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜

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Subjects: Religion / Christian Theology / Systematic, Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Religion / Christian Theology / Ethics, Religion / Ethics, Religion / Faith

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The Theological Virtues Today

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Faith, hope, and love, traditionally called theological virtues, are central to Christianity. This book renews faith, hope, and love in the context of the many contemporary challenges in many unique ways. It is an ecumenical collection of papers, equally divided between Catholic and Protestant positions, that seek to radically renew the classical doctrine of faith, hope, and love, and argues for their essential connection to the praxis of justice. It contains eight different approaches, each represented by a distinguished theologian and addressing different aspects of the issues and followed by insightful and critical responses. It does not merely seek to renew the theological virtues but to also reconstruct them in the demanding context of justice and the contemporary world, nor is it simply a treatise on justice but a theoretical and practical reflection on justice as vital expressions of faith in God, hope in God, and love of God. A non-dogmatic and non-ideological approach, it accommodates both conservative and liberal positions, and avoids the separation of the theological virtues from the demands of the contemporary world as well as the separation of justice talk from the theological context of faith, hope, and love. It seeks above all to renew, not merely repeat, the classical doctrine of faith, hope, and love in the contemporary context of the urgency of justice, and to do so ecumenically, comprehensively, and from a variety of perspectives and aspects.

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Lexington Books

Pages: 264 • Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜

978-1-4985-7711-3 • Hardback • March 2018 • $136.00 • (£105.00)

978-1-4985-7712-0 • eBook • March 2018 • $129.00 • (£99.00)

Subjects: Religion / Christian Theology / Systematic, Philosophy / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Religion / Christian Theology / Ethics, Religion / Ethics, Religion / Faith

Author

Anselm K. Min is professor of religion at Claremont Graduate University.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Challenges and Opportunities for Faith, Hope, and Love Today
Anselm K. Min

1
Faith, Hope, and Love in the Thought of Pope Benedict XVI
Thomas P. Rausch, S.J.
On the Role of Christian Particularity in Political Theology
Shane Akerman

2
Protest against Death: Faith, Hope, and Love: A Theological Meditation
Ingolf U. Dalferth
Beer and Skittles as (Divinely Initiated) Protest?
Rhys Kuzmic

3
The Theological Virtues: “And the Greatest of These Is Love”
Stephen T. Davis
The Trouble with Hope and Compensatory Logic in a Kantian Form
Jonathan Russell

4
Faith, Hope, and Love and the Challenges of Justice
Francis Schüssler Fiorenza
Love and Justice in Non-Dualistic Perspective
Joseph Prabhu

5
Faith, Hope and Love: The Challenge of Colorblindness
Mary McClintock Fulkerson
What about Other Marginalized Communities and Beings?
Grace Y. Kao

6
Incarnating Faith, Hope, and Love: Theo-Political Virtues and the Common Good
M. Shawn Copeland
Hoping against Hope
Kirsten Gerdes

7
Faith, Hope, and Love in an Age of Terror
Elaine A. Robinson
Cruciform Atonement
Paul Pistone

8
Transcendence and Solidarity: Conditions of Faith, Hope, and Love Today
Anselm K. Min
What If Christians Are Responsible for Their Own Decline?
Paul E. Capetz

Reviews

This eye-catching and appetizing book, emanating from a series of papers at a conference held at Claremont Graduate University in April 2016, gives a hybrid of perspectives on the biblical concepts of faith, hope, and love in the context of justice. . . . the book is an informative and worthwhile exploration of various perspectives on faith, hope, and love for an enhancement of justice in the contemporary world. It is an essential contribution to theological, philosophical, and practical academics, and indeed to contemporary religious engagements. It will be useful for both graduate and post-graduate students, and every seminary library will do well to acquire a copy.
— Reading Religion

These incisive re-readings of the theological virtues of faith, hope, and love in the light of the challenges of the postmodern world, and the need to engage them with contemporary considerations of justice, make this book a compelling addition to an important nexus in theology today. These essays will continue to be consulted for a long time to come.
— Robert Schreiter, Catholic Theological Union, Chicago

Not since the Trinitarian poetics of Charles Péguy and the pastoral insights of Rafael Tello (an overlooked Argentine model for Pope Francis) have Christian thinkers dared to re-think the classical theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity in the light of modern secularizing exigencies as well as the present demands of justice. Anselm Min has assembled an ecumenically rich array of insightful commentators on this critical issue. Readers will be provoked by these timely essays to claim with new vigor and understanding a tradition we cannot afford to ignore.
— Peter Casarella, University of Notre Dame

Not since the Trinitarian poetics of Charles Péguy and the pastoral insights of Rafael Tello (an overlooked Argentine model for Pope Francis) have Christian thinkers dared to re-think the classical theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity in the light of modern secularizing exigencies as well as the present demands of justice. Anselm Min has assembled an ecumenically rich array of insightful commentators on this critical issue. Readers will be provoked by these timely essays to claim with new vigor and understanding a tradition we cannot afford to ignore.
— Peter Casarella, University of Notre Dame

Min’s project is a worthwhile read for graduate and undergraduate audiences as it is a well-argued and valuable example of the move from theory to application.
— Horizons: The Journal of the College Theology Society

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