Essays Catholic and Critical : By George P. Schner, SJ (Hardcover)

Contents: Editors' foreword; Introduction: Philosophy and the practices of Christianity, John Webster; Engaging the Catholic Tradition: 'New ways of speaking with love and mercy': Veritas Splendor and the teaching responsibility of the Church in our times; Faith, reason and theological method - Fides et Ratio; A commentary on the dogmatic constitution on Divine Revelation - Dei Verbum; Therapeutics of a philosophical tradition: Hume's Dialogues and the redefinition of the philosophy of religion; Hegel, the Spiritual Exercises and making present the past; A temple for the passions - engaging in a struggle with language; Philosophical theology: Philosophy within the study of theology; On theology - a speech to its cultured despisers; The appeal to experience; Christian theology at century's turning: The Eclipse of Bibilical Narrative - an analysis and critique; Hans Frei's Types of Christian Theology - a typology and its theological presuppositions; Theology's conversation with biblical studies: historical, critical, systematic, doctrinal; Scripture, modernity and patristic principles; Bibliography: Bibliography of the writings of George P. Schner, S.J.; Indexes.