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Formative Figures of Contemporary American Catholic Moral Theology Volume 1, Number 1, January 2012 Edited by David Cloutier and William C. Mattison III Moral Theology in the Ruins: Introducing the Journal of Moral Theology David Matzko McCarthy Bernard Haring's Influence on American Catholic Moral Theology James F. Keenan, S.J. Servais Pinckaers and the Renewal of Catholic Moral Theology Craig Steven Titus Religious Freedom, Morality and Law: John Courtney Murray Today David Hollenbach, S.J. James M. Gustafson and Catholic Theological Ethics Lisa Sowle Cahill The Luminous Excess of the Acting Person: Assessing the Impact of Pope John Paul II on American Catholic Moral Theology John Grabowski Stanley Hauerwas's Influence on Catholic Moral Theologians Jana Marguerite Bennett Review Essay: Method in American Catholic Moral Theology After Veritatis Splendor David Cloutier and William C. Mattison III

Formative Figures of Contemporary American Catholic Moral Theology Volume 1, Number 1, January 2012 Edited by David Cloutier and William C. Mattison III Moral Theology in the Ruins: Introducing the Journal of Moral Theology David Matzko McCarthy Bernard Haring's Influence on American Catholic Moral Theology James F. Keenan, S.J. Servais Pinckaers and the Renewal of Catholic Moral Theology Craig Steven Titus Religious Freedom, Morality and Law: John Courtney Murray Today David Hollenbach, S.J. James M. Gustafson and Catholic Theological Ethics Lisa Sowle Cahill The Luminous Excess of the Acting Person: Assessing the Impact of Pope John Paul II on American Catholic Moral Theology John Grabowski Stanley Hauerwas's Influence on Catholic Moral Theologians Jana Marguerite Bennett Review Essay: Method in American Catholic Moral Theology After Veritatis Splendor David Cloutier and William C. Mattison III

Written by nationally and internationally known homileticians and preachers, this book offers a fascinating survey of the significant developments in preaching, beginning with the Old Testament, moving through the history of preaching, and concluding with a look into the future, all while offering practical suggestions for meeting the challenges that lie ahead. In a unique way, it addresses both the academic issues raised during each period and the practical implications for preaching today and in the future.

Written by nationally and internationally known homileticians and preachers, this book offers a fascinating survey of the significant developments in preaching, beginning with the Old Testament, moving through the history of preaching, and concluding with a look into the future, all while offering practical suggestions for meeting the challenges that lie ahead. In a unique way, it addresses both the academic issues raised during each period and the practical implications for preaching today and in the future.

That Denise Levertov (1923-97) was one of the most pioneering and skilled poets of her generation is beyond dispute. Her masterly use of language, innovative experimentations with organic form, and the political acuity disclosed by her activist poetry are well marked by critical communities. But it is also quite clear that the poems Levertov wrote in the last twenty years of her life, with their more explicit focus on theological themes and subjects, are among the best poems written on religious experience of any century, let alone the twentieth. The collection of essays gathered here shed vital light on this neglected aspect of Levertov studies so as to expand and enrich the scope of critical engagement. In a mixture of theoretical considerations and close readings, these essays provide valuable reflections about the complex relationship between poetry and belief and offer philosophically robust insights into different styles of poetic imagination. The abiding hope is to broaden the terrain for discussions in twenty-first-century theology, literary theory, poetics, and aesthetics--honoring immanence, exploring transcendence, and dwelling with integrity within the spaces between.

Good poetry is like a good painting: the more you linger over it, the more it reveals. It is a deep well that never runs dry. And that is why the Psalter, like a good painting, keeps giving. In the last four decades, Psalms scholarship has found remarkable fruitfulness in reading the Psalter as a book--that is, in reading the Psalms as a unified composition with a metanarrative across its 150 poems. Pivotal questions associated with this approach really boil down to two questions--how and why? How are individual psalms sequenced, if at all, and what is the design logic behind that macrostructure? This volume seeks to answer those questions. In essence, the Psalter unfurls the story of the Davidic covenant. While interest in the editing of the Psalter remains high in recent Psalms scholarship, this interest has not led to clear consensus. The specific and timely contribution of this volume is twofold. First, it consolidates the results of studies on groups of psalms. Second, it integrates poetic and thematic approaches that are typically separated in Psalms scholarship. Readers will find results of this study surprising and their implications sobering.

The Epistle of James is a collection of essays that applies to the book of James linguistic methods of analysis that are based on the same theoretical framework, namely Systemic-Functional Linguistics. This volume is unique in that it provides a theoretically consistent and unified approach to a single New Testament book, which makes the whole volume useful for researchers and students of James. Each essay makes its own creative use of this linguistic perspective to engage important critical questions and to pave new ground for Jacobean scholarship based on linguistic analysis. Various topics in this volume include the textual structure and cohesion of the letter, intertextuality, rhetorical strategies, ideological struggle, interpersonal relations, and other topics related to the letter's social context and language use. ""James has emerged from an unlit corner in the library of early Christian scholarship onto the front table, and this series of studies, using systemic-functional linguistics wrapped up in classic historical exegesis, penetrates deeply into this letter with force and insight. For a long time this study will prove itself useful to anyone serious about studying James.""--Scot McKnight, Julius R. Mantey Chair of New Testament, Northern Seminary""This collection of essays tackles some of the difficult syntactic and structural aspects of James, at both macro and micro levels, through the use of modern linguistic analyses. Those working in linguistic approaches to the New Testament, as well as scholars who study the Letter of James in general, will want to consult this book.""--Alicia J. Batten, Professor of Religious Studies and Theological Studies, Conrad Grebel University College/University of Waterloo""We will always have room for new commentaries to address fresh applicational concerns that arise in our constantly changing cultures. But what I appreciate about the new LENT series--and its inaugural volume on James--is that it attempts to make advances on the meaning concerns in commentary writing . . . this series proposes to fill a gap in the production of NT commentaries that will be welcomed for its attempts.""--Douglas S. Huffman, Associate Dean, Division of Biblical and Theological Studies, Professor of New Testament, Biola UniversityJames D. Dvorak is Professor of Greek and New Testament at Oklahoma Christian University in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.Zachary K. Dawson is a PhD candidate in New Testament at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario.