The Craft of Innovative Theology : Argument and Process (Paperback)

The Acknowledgments ix

Contributors xi

Introduction xiii

Part I God and the Incarnation 1

1 Knowing God through Religious Pluralism 3
Tinu Ruparell

Research Level 2 3

2 Is It Possible for the Eternal Word to Be Made Manifest in a Person with Down’s Syndrome? 19
Ian S. Markham

Research Level 1 19

Part II God and Church 31

3 Racial Stigma and Southern Baptist Public Discourse in the Twentieth Century 33
Pamela D. Jones

Research Level 1 33

4 The Plugged-in Church: Is it Appropriate to Baptize Artificial Intelligence 50
Ian S. Markham

Research Level 1 50

Part III God and the World 63

5 Humanity: Where on Earth Have We Come From and Where Are We Going To? 65
Celia Deane-Drummond

Research Level 3 65

6 What Challenges Does the Theory of Biological Evolution Pose to Christian Theology? 81
Christopher Southgate

Research Level 3 81

Part IV God and Ethics 97

7 Sin and the Faces of Responsibility 99
Leigh Vicens

Research Level 4 99

8 A Good Story: Human–Animal Friendship and Meat Eating 114
Trevor Bechtel

Research Level 2 114

9 Just Business: It’s Not What You Think 127
Kathryn D. Blanchard

Research Level 2 127

Part V The End of the World 149

10 Relentless Love and the Afterlife 151
Thomas J. Oord

Research Level 1 151

11 Hell: Retributivism, Escapism, and Universal Reconciliation 164
Andrei A. Buckareff

Research Level 3 164

12 Christ Will Come Again 183
Keith Ward

Research Level 2 183

Part VI Method in Theology 195

13 Theological Language and Method in Liberal Theology: Schubert Ogden’s Response to the Falsification Controversy 197
John Allan Knight

Research Level 4 197

14 Does Culture Determine Belief? The Relationship between the Social Sciences and Theology 212
Martyn Percy

Research Level 3 212

15 Theological Reference and Theological Creativity in Judaism 226
Cass Fisher

Research Level 4 226

16 Marshall’s Slingshot: Truth Theory, Realism, and Liberal Theological Method 245
John Allan Knight

Research Level 4 245

Glossary 261

Index 266