Faith Maps: Ten Religious Explorers from Newman to Joseph Ratzinger

In Faith Maps a theologian of great flair and originality ‘translates’ the voices of several leading thinkers into a series of reflections on faith and contemporary life and culture. The result is both a delightful introduction to theology and religion for students and general readers and a thought-provoking improvisation on familiar themes that will delight specialists.

Gallagher devotes a separate chapter to each of ten writers who have explored the credibility of religious faith, beginning with John Henry Newman and ending with Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI).

But, he writes, ‘I do not simply report on what they say. I offer a brief summary of their ideas but I also “translate” their vision into a more contemporary and less specialist idiom. What would they say today? Or, what do they inspire in me? As in music, they are variations on a theme with considerable freedom to go beyond their explicit statements.’

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Faith Maps: Ten Religious Explorers from Newman to Joseph Ratzinger

In Faith Maps a theologian of great flair and originality ‘translates’ the voices of several leading thinkers into a series of reflections on faith and contemporary life and culture. The result is both a delightful introduction to theology and religion for students and general readers and a thought-provoking improvisation on familiar themes that will delight specialists.

Gallagher devotes a separate chapter to each of ten writers who have explored the credibility of religious faith, beginning with John Henry Newman and ending with Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI).

But, he writes, ‘I do not simply report on what they say. I offer a brief summary of their ideas but I also “translate” their vision into a more contemporary and less specialist idiom. What would they say today? Or, what do they inspire in me? As in music, they are variations on a theme with considerable freedom to go beyond their explicit statements.’

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Faith Maps: Ten Religious Explorers from Newman to Joseph Ratzinger

Faith Maps: Ten Religious Explorers from Newman to Joseph Ratzinger

by Michael Paul Gallagher
Faith Maps: Ten Religious Explorers from Newman to Joseph Ratzinger

Faith Maps: Ten Religious Explorers from Newman to Joseph Ratzinger

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In Faith Maps a theologian of great flair and originality ‘translates’ the voices of several leading thinkers into a series of reflections on faith and contemporary life and culture. The result is both a delightful introduction to theology and religion for students and general readers and a thought-provoking improvisation on familiar themes that will delight specialists.

Gallagher devotes a separate chapter to each of ten writers who have explored the credibility of religious faith, beginning with John Henry Newman and ending with Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI).

But, he writes, ‘I do not simply report on what they say. I offer a brief summary of their ideas but I also “translate” their vision into a more contemporary and less specialist idiom. What would they say today? Or, what do they inspire in me? As in music, they are variations on a theme with considerable freedom to go beyond their explicit statements.’


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780232528534
Publisher: Darton, Longman & Todd LTD
Publication date: 05/31/2010
Series: Religion Today
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 160
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Michael Paul Gallagher, SJ, teaches at the Gregorian University, Rome where he was dean of the faculty of theology from 2005 to 2008. Before 1990 he taught literature for nearly 20 years at University College, Dublin. His many previous books include Clashing Symbols and The Human Poetry of Faith (both Paulist Press).
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