Finding God Among our Neighbors: An Interfaith Systematic Theology

Finding God Among our Neighbors: An Interfaith Systematic Theology

by Kristin Johnston Largen
Finding God Among our Neighbors: An Interfaith Systematic Theology

Finding God Among our Neighbors: An Interfaith Systematic Theology

by Kristin Johnston Largen

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Overview

For too many students, Christian theology is learned in isolation from other religions traditions. With this, the second volume of her important work, Kristin Johnston Largen returns to expand the systematic theology she began in the original volume.

Largen places the work of Christian theology soundly within the interreligious dialogue that is the defining feature of our time. In doing so, she prepares students of theology for the task of understanding and articulating their Christian beliefs in the context of a religiously and culturally diverse world.

In the original volume, Largen focused her work on three loci—God, Creation, and Humanity. In this second volume she expands the project to include salvation, the Church, and the Holy Spirit. As before, each locus is set within the broader context of interreligious dialogue by considering how the varied beliefs of the world's religious traditions inform our understanding of our own tradition. This volume explores indigenous religions, Sikhism, Confucianism, and Daoism, in particular.

The result is a fascinating lens through which to view the essential teachings of theology, and an essential supplementary textbook for the theology classroom.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781506423302
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Publication date: 02/01/2017
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 234
File size: 4 MB
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Kristin Johnston Largen is associate professor of systematic theology at Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg. She is author of Finding God Among our Neighbors (Fortress, 2013) and What Christians Can Learn from Buddhism: Rethinking Salvation (Fortress, 2009).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction xi

1 A Brief Introduction to Indigenous Religions 1

2 A Brief Introduction to Sikhism 33

3 A Brief Introduction to Confucianism 61

4 A Brief Introduction to Daoism 89

5 Life, Death, and What Comes After 117

6 Trinitarian, Troubling, Tangible Spirit 159

7 A Relevant, Vibrant Church for the Twenty-First Century 185

Conclusion: An Ending Is Always a Beginning 219

Bibliography 223

Index 235

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