Book description
In Faith Maps a theologian of great flair and originality translates
the voices of several leading thinkers into a series of reflections on
faith and contemporary life and culture. The result is both a delightful
introduction to theology and religion for students and general readers
and a thought-provoking improvisation on familiar themes that will
delight specialists. Gallagher devotes a separate chapter to each of ten
writers who have explored the credibility of religious faith, beginning
with John Henry Newman and ending with Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope
Benedict XVI, due to visit the UK later this year. But, he writes, I do
not simply report on what they say. I offer a brief summary of their
ideas but I also translate their vision into a more contemporary and
less specialist idiom. What would they say today? Or, what do they
inspire in me? As in music, they are variations on a theme with
considerable freedom to go beyond their explicit statements. In Faith
Maps a theologian of great flair and originality translates the voices
of several leading thinkers into a series of reflections on faith and
contemporary life and culture. The result is both a delightful
introduction to theology and religion for students and general readers
and a thought-provoking improvisation on familiar themes that will
delight specialists. Gallagher devotes a separate chapter to each of ten
writers who have explored the credibility of religious faith, beginning
with John Henry Newman and ending with Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope
Benedict XVI, due to visit the UK later this year. But, he writes, I do
not simply report on what they say. I offer a brief summary of their
ideas but I also translate their vision into a more contemporary and
less specialist idiom. What would they say today? Or, what do they
inspire in me? As in music, they are variations on a theme with
considerable freedom to go beyond their explicit statements.
