Theology what we study

Just because we Christians mentally inhabit the stories of the Hebrew Scriptures, doesn’t make those tales ours alone.

Moltmann claims that those who “merit” dialogue “have arrived at a firm standpoint in their own religion . . .

The church’s most prominent challenge today involves “persistent plurality and its impact on [Christians’] daily lives . . .”

Many things in my tribe’s religious stories prepared me for the gospel. The story of Jesus did not strike me as a completely new and strange thing

The primary context for dialogue with other faiths is relational rather than epistemological.

I have found it revolutionary to my own faith to hold my judgment of others until I know them

“May we meet each week to discuss it—you as a Christian and I as a Muslim?” Thus began my early steps in Christian-Muslim dialogue

Evangelical scholars wrestling in a critical yet substantive way with Catholic views . . . is clearly a sign of hope

Wolterstorff expands the idea of flourishing as being filled with light

Myers replaces stereotypes about the poor with their own thoughts on flourishing

Dyrness investigates “the poetic sphere” of human life and its intrinsic value to human flourishing

Brown and Strawn discuss embodied life as the context of spiritual flourishing

Flourishing, a full-bodied embrace of life, includes obedience to God

Wagener and Beaton expand the idea of human flourishing to organizational life

Glenn Hinson discusses positive and negative aspects of Baptist spirituality and reflects on the current situation of Baptist spirituality

Desmond Tutu illustrates the importance of prayer in an unrighteous world using the example of Abraham’s bargaining with God for the lives of Sodom and Gomorrah's unworthy citizens

Understanding Evelyn Underhill's spirituality must consider her whole life's journey of faith

Kathleen Dolphin introduces the spirituality of Ignatius of Loyola and current thought on his exercises

John Weborg discusses the principles of Pietism in historical context, including reforms seeking to balance grace, fear, and God’s internal work

In Quaker thought, asserts Grace Adolphsen Brame, service is the hallmark of the meditative life, centered on prayer

Saint Francis was “consumed totally in the desire to live a radical life following Jesus” in simplicity, humility, poverty, and the cross