Book description
This collection assembles essays by eleven leading Catholic and
evangelical theologians in an ecumenical discussion of the benefits -
and potential drawbacks - of today's burgeoning corpus of theological
interpretation. The authors explore the critical relationship between
the earthly world and its heavenly counterpart.
- Ground-breaking volume of ecumenical debate featuring Catholic and
evangelical theologians
- Explores the core theological issue of how the material and
spiritual worlds interrelate
- Features a diversity of analytical approaches
- Addresses an urgent need to distinguish the positive and
problematic aspects of today's rapidly growing corpus of theological
interpretation
Hans Boersma holds the J. I. Packer Chair in Theology at Regent
College, Canada, and is co-director (with Matthew Levering) of the
Center for Catholic-Evangelical Dialogue. As well as this volume and a
forthcoming publication on Gregory of Nyssa, he is the author of
Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry
(2011), Nouvelle Théologie and Sacramental Ontology: A
Return to Mystery (2009), and Violence, Hospitality, and the
Cross: Reappropriating the Atonement Tradition (2004). Prof
Boersma is a member of the Langley Immanuel Christian Reformed Church.
Matthew Levering is Professor of Theology at the University of
Dayton, USA, where he is also director of the Center for Scriptural
Exegesis, Philosophy, and Doctrine. Co-editor since 2003 of the
theological journal Nova et Vetera, he has also recently joined
the editorial team of the International Journal of Systematic
Theology. Prof Levering has served as Chair of the Board of the
Academy of Catholic Theology since 2007 and co-directs the Center for
Catholic-Evangelical dialogue alongside Prof Boersma. His numerous
books and publications include most recently The Feminine Genius of
Catholic Theology (2012), Jesus and the Demise of Death
(2012), and Predestination (2011). Forthcoming publications
include volumes on St. Paul and Thomas Aquinas and on the theology of Augustine.
