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Creation, grace, and redemption /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ormerod, Neil
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Maryknoll, N.Y. : Orbis Books, [2007]
Series:Theology in global perspective.
Subjects:
Theology, Doctrinal.
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • The God of creation
  • Creation ex nihilo
  • Creation ex divino
  • Creation by emanation
  • Dualist accounts of creation
  • Process accounts of God and creation
  • Providence, creation and contingency
  • The problem of evil and suffering
  • Perspectives from other religions
  • Human beings within God's creation
  • The specialness of life in the cosmos
  • Evolution and the creation of human beings
  • Spirit and matter
  • Human existence as social and historical
  • Male and female : God created them?
  • Subdue the earth?
  • A brief look at Buddhist anthropology
  • The structure of moral evil
  • Evil and personal sin
  • Sin as social and cultural
  • Liberation theology and social sin
  • Feminist theology and the critique of patriarchy
  • The dialectic of transcendence and limitation
  • Other religious traditions religions and the problem of evil
  • Original sin
  • Brief history of the doctrine of original sin
  • Contemporary reflection on original sin
  • Original sin as our universal victimhood
  • The voice of original sin : the satan
  • Original sin and other religious worldviews
  • Jesus and the story of redemption
  • The New Testament witness
  • Early church images for redemption
  • The beginnings of system in the Middle ages
  • Modern accounts : the insights of Girard
  • The two discourses of sacrifice
  • Do other religions have Saviors?
  • Grace and the supernatural
  • Grace as healing
  • The grace-sin dialectic
  • The grace-nature distinction
  • The natural desire to see God
  • Can we experience grace?
  • Providence and predestination
  • Some practical insights into the life of grace
  • Some recent ecumenical considerations
  • Grace or enlightenment?
  • Church and sacrament
  • Church : the religious dimension
  • Church : the moral dimension
  • Church : the social dimension
  • Church and Eucharist
  • Religious and moral dimension
  • The cultural dimension of Eucharist
  • The social dimension of Eucharist
  • Forgiveness and reconciliation
  • Forgiveness and the individual
  • Social and political dimensions of reconciliation
  • Historical violence and the purification of memory
  • Historical violence and the purification of memory
  • Reconciliation as divine initiative
  • Estranged from God : original sin
  • Hostile in mind : reactive anger
  • Doing evil deeds
  • Holy, blameless and irreproachable : restorative justice
  • Through the blood of the cross : identification with the victim
  • Death and the after-life
  • Life after death
  • Platonic conception of soul
  • Aristotelian conception of soul
  • Death and sin
  • Death and judgment
  • Heaven and the beatific vision
  • Hell and punishment
  • Purgatory : a Catholic thing
  • Afterlife in other traditions
  • The end of all things
  • Traditional eschatology
  • End of history, end of cosmos?
  • The resurrection of the dead
  • Cosmic eschatology
  • The resurrection of Jesus : what does it teach us?
  • Final judgment.