Joy and Human Flourishing: Essays on Theology, Culture, and the Good Life

by Miroslav Volf

Overview

With contributions from Jrgen Moltmann, N. T. Wright, Marianne Meye Thompson, Mary Clark Moschella, Charles Mathewes, and Miroslav Volf, this volume puts joy at the very heart of Christian faith and life, exploring joys biblical, dogmatic, ecclesiological, and ethical dimensions in concert with close attention to the shifting tides of culture. All together, the volume offers a compelling Christian vision of the good life, showing the connections between joy and themes of creation, theodicy, politics, suffering, pastoral practice, and eschatology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781451482072
Publisher:	1517 Media
Publication date:	10/19/2015
Pages:	174
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Miroslav Volf is Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School. Among his notable books is After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the Trinity (Eerdmans, 1998).