Foundational Theology: A New Approach to Catholic Fundamental Theology

Fundamental theology is traditionally viewed as the starting point for the various disciplines within Catholic theology; it is the place where solid foundations are established for further research and engagement with the vast terrain of historical, systematic, philosophical, and sacramental/liturgical theology.

In Foundational Theology, a landmark new study, Neil Ormerod and Christiaan Jacobs-Vandegeer seek to ground foundational theology in the normative drive toward meaning, truth, goodness, and beauty, appropriated by the theologian through religious, moral, intellectual, and psychic conversions. In doing so, this work maps out the implications of those fundamental orientations to the specific questions and topics of the Catholic theological tradition: God, Trinity, revelation, and an array of doctrinal points of investigation.

The authors in this work provide a comprehensive approach to theological foundations for theologians while employing a new, groundbreaking approach to the discipline through the application of the insights of Bernard Lonergan, one of the foremost Catholic theologians of the modern era.

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Foundational Theology: A New Approach to Catholic Fundamental Theology

Fundamental theology is traditionally viewed as the starting point for the various disciplines within Catholic theology; it is the place where solid foundations are established for further research and engagement with the vast terrain of historical, systematic, philosophical, and sacramental/liturgical theology.

In Foundational Theology, a landmark new study, Neil Ormerod and Christiaan Jacobs-Vandegeer seek to ground foundational theology in the normative drive toward meaning, truth, goodness, and beauty, appropriated by the theologian through religious, moral, intellectual, and psychic conversions. In doing so, this work maps out the implications of those fundamental orientations to the specific questions and topics of the Catholic theological tradition: God, Trinity, revelation, and an array of doctrinal points of investigation.

The authors in this work provide a comprehensive approach to theological foundations for theologians while employing a new, groundbreaking approach to the discipline through the application of the insights of Bernard Lonergan, one of the foremost Catholic theologians of the modern era.

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Foundational Theology: A New Approach to Catholic Fundamental Theology

Foundational Theology: A New Approach to Catholic Fundamental Theology

by Neil Ormerod
Foundational Theology: A New Approach to Catholic Fundamental Theology

Foundational Theology: A New Approach to Catholic Fundamental Theology

by Neil Ormerod

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Fundamental theology is traditionally viewed as the starting point for the various disciplines within Catholic theology; it is the place where solid foundations are established for further research and engagement with the vast terrain of historical, systematic, philosophical, and sacramental/liturgical theology.

In Foundational Theology, a landmark new study, Neil Ormerod and Christiaan Jacobs-Vandegeer seek to ground foundational theology in the normative drive toward meaning, truth, goodness, and beauty, appropriated by the theologian through religious, moral, intellectual, and psychic conversions. In doing so, this work maps out the implications of those fundamental orientations to the specific questions and topics of the Catholic theological tradition: God, Trinity, revelation, and an array of doctrinal points of investigation.

The authors in this work provide a comprehensive approach to theological foundations for theologians while employing a new, groundbreaking approach to the discipline through the application of the insights of Bernard Lonergan, one of the foremost Catholic theologians of the modern era.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781506401881
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Publication date: 12/01/2015
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 450
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

Neil Ormerod is professor of theology in the School of Theology and member of the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at Australian Catholic University in Strathfield, Australia. He is the author of A Public God: Natural Theology Reconsidered (Fortress Press, 2015) and Re-Visioning the Church: An Experiment in Systematic-Historical Ecclesiology (Fortress Press, 2014), and coauthor of Foundational Theology: A New Approach to Catholic Fundamental Theology (Fortress Press, 2015) and Creator God, Evolving World (Fortress Press, 2013).

Table of Contents

Preface Gerald O'Collins vii

Foreword xi

1 Why Theological Foundations? 1

2 Religious Conversion 27

3 Moral Conversion and the Structure of the Good 59

4 Intellectual Conversion and Meaning, Truth, and Reality 89

5 Psychic Conversion and the Question of Beauty 123

6 God 153

7 Revelation and Divine Self-Communication 193

8 Heuristic Anticipation of Doctrines: Trinity, Christology, and Ecclesiology 229

9 The Communicative Context: Secularism and Religious Pluralism 255

10 Theological Method 289

Bibliography 319

Index 333

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