Sallie McFague: Collected Readings

by Sallie McFague, David B. Lott (Editor)

Overview

Sallie McFague offers a lucid and powerful guide to theological thinking about God and the world, individual and community, humanity and nature, reality and metaphor, the sacramental and the prophetic, and the critical issue of climate change for today’s world. She calls Christians to new feeling, new acting, and new thinking.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781451465174
Publisher:	Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Publication date:	10/01/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	450 KB

About the Author

Sallie McFague has been the Carpenter Professor of Theology at Vanderbilt Divinity School, where she taught for thirty years. She is now distinguished theologian in residence at the Vancouver School of Theology in Vancouver, British Columbia. Among her many influential works, all from Fortress Press, are: Blessed are the Consumers (2013); Life Abundant: Rethinking Theology and Economy for a Planet in Peril (2000); Super, Natural Christians: How We Should Love Nature (1997); The Body of God: An Ecological Theology (1993); Models of God: Theology for an Ecological, Nuclear Age (1987), which received the American Academy of Religion's Award for Excellence; and Metaphorical Theology: Models of God in Religious Language (1982).

Table of Contents

Introduction David B. Lott vii

Bibliography xvii

Prologue: A Religious Autobiography xix

Part I The Language of Theology: Parables, Metaphors, and Models

1 A Trial Run: Parable, Poem, and Autobiographical Story 3

2 Parables as Metaphors 17

3 Creeds: Models or Dogmas 25

4 God as Mother, Lover, and Friend 33

5 A Meditation on Exodus 33:23b 61

Part II Theology and Spirituality: Metaphorical, Ecological, and Kenotic Approaches

6 Metaphorical Theology 69

7 Metaphors, Models, and Concepts 85

8 Theology of Nature: Remythologizing Christian Doctrine 95

9 Consider the Lilies of the Field 107

10 The Ecological Model and Christian Spirituality 127

11 How Shall We Live? Christianity and Planetary Economics 139

12 A Spirituality for the Whole Planet / Kenotic Theology 155

Part III Constructing Theology: God, Humans, and the World

13 The Christian Paradigm 167

14 Sin: The Refusal to Accept Our Place 179

15 Human Existence in the Spirit 195

16 Christ and the Ecological Economic Worldview 201

17 God and the World 211

18 "The Dearest Freshness Deep Down Things": The Holy Spirit and Climate Change 227

19 Who Are We Human Beings? 241

20 Falling in Love with God and the World: Some Reflections on the Doctrine of God 247

Index of Names and Subjects 267