A Modern Introduction to Theology: New Questions for Old Beliefs
Ebook
Philip Kennedy, here, offers the first book that any student - with or without religious convictions - can profitably use to get quickly to grips with the essentials of the Christian religion: its history and its key thinkers, its successes and its failures. Most existing undergraduate textbooks of theology begin from essentially traditional positions on the Bible, doctrine, authority, interpretation, and God. What makes Philip Kennedy's book both singularly important and uniquely different is that it has a completely new starting-point. The author contends that traditional Christian theology must extensively overhaul many of its theses because of a multitude of modern social, historical and intellectual revolutions. Offering a grand historical sweep of the genesis of the modern age, and writing with panache and a magisterial grasp of the relevant debates, conflicts and controversies, "A Modern Introduction to Theology" moves a tired and increasingly incoherent discipline in genuinely fresh and exciting directions, and will be welcomed by students and readers of the subject.
Useful for students, this book helps them get to grips with the essentials of the Christian religion: its history and its key thinkers, its successes and its failures. It contends that traditional Christian theology must extensively overhaul many of its theses because of a multitude of modern social, historical and intellectual revolutions.
- Title: A Modern Introduction to Theology: New Questions for Old Beliefs
- Author: Philip Kennedy
- Publisher: I.B. Tauris
- Print Publication Date: 2009
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9780857737441, 0857737449
- Resource ID: LLS:9780857737441
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-04-11T03:13:43Z
Philip Kennedy is a member of the Faculty of Theology in the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Mansfield College. He is the author of a much-praised volume on the theology of Edward Schillebeeckx.