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Augsburg Fortress Publishers
- Joy and Human Flourishing: Essays on Theology, Culture, and the Good Life
- Book
- 2015
- Published by: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
summary
Joy is crucial to human life and central to God’s relationship to the world, yet it is remarkably absent from contemporary theology and, increasingly, from our own lives! This collection, the result of a series of consultations hosted by the Yale Center of Faith and Culture, remedies this situation by considering the import of joy on human flourishing. These essays—written by experts in systematic and pastoral theology, Christian ethics, and biblical studies—demonstrate the promise of joy to throw open new theological possibilities and cast fresh light on all dimensions of human life. With contributions from Jurgen Moltmann, N. T. Wright, Marianne Meye Thompson, Mary Clark Moschella, Charles Mathewes, and Miroslav Volf, this volume puts joy at the heart of Christian faith and life, exploring joy’s biblical, dogmatic, ecclesiological, and ethical dimensions in concert with close attention to the shifting tides of culture. Convinced of the need to offer to the world a compelling Christian vision of the good life, the authors treat the connections between joy and themes of creation, theodicy, politics, suffering, pastoral practice, eschatology, and more, driven by the conviction that vital relationship with the living God is integral to our fullest flourishing as human creatures.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction: A Bright Sorrow
- pp. vii-xviii
- 2. Reflections on Joy in the Bible
- pp. 17-38
- 4. Toward a Theology of Joy
- pp. 63-96
- 6. The Crown of the Good Life: A Hypothesis
- pp. 127-136
- Bibliography
- pp. 137-146
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 147-148
- Contributors
- pp. 149-150
Additional Information
ISBN
9781506402864
MARC Record
OCLC
924625422
Pages
128
Launched on MUSE
2015-10-18
Language
English
Open Access
No