The Cambridge Companion to Hans Urs Von Balthasar
Edward Oakes, SJ ed.
Cambridge, 2006
230.2092 B197c
Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905 1988) is one of the most prolific, creative and wide-ranging theologians of the twentieth century who is just now coming to prominence. But because of his range of competencies and his staggerings output, Balthasar has never been an easily-categorized theologian. This Companion brings together a wide range of theologians both to outline and to assess the work of someone whom history will surely rank someday with Origen, John Calvin, and Karl Barth. It is both accessible and wide-ranging...
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1. Introduction Edward T. Oakes and David Moss Part I. Theology: 2. Revelation Larry Chapp 3. Christology Mark McIntosh 4. Trinity Rowan Williams 5. Church, ecumenism and culture David Schindler 6. Mariology Lucy Gardner 7. Prayer and the saints David Moss 8. Gender Corinne Crammer 9. Eschatology Geoffrey Wainwright Part II. The Trilogy: 10. The Aesthetics Oliver Davies 11. The Theo-Dramatics Ben Quash 12. The Theo-Logic Aidan Nichols Part III. Disciplines and Methodologies: 13. Patristics Brian Daley 14. Literary criticism Edwin Block 15. Contemporary metaphysics Fergus Kerr Part IV. Conversations: 16. Balthasar and Karl Barth John Webster 17. Balthasar and Karl Rahner Karen Kilby 18. Balthasar's reception among theologians Edward T. Oakes and David Moss.
Submission, Faith and Beauty: the religion of Islam
Joseph Lumbard
Zaytubna, 2009
297.2 L957s
Summarizing the core beliefs of the Muslim faith, this eye-opening guide counters widely held Western views of Islam as a fierce and fanatical religion by using classical texts to illustrate the truth about three key Islamic principles. Explaining that submission, faith, and beautification complement and complete each other, the study reveals that embodying all three attributes simultaneously is what Muslims strive to achieve in order to meet the Qur'an's definition of fitrah, or true nature. This drastic contrast to many issues and concerns about Muslims—especially the stereotypical attitudes that have arisen since 9/11—is fully explored in the account's quest to foster mutual understanding between cultures. Using a famous encounter between the prophet Muhammad and the angel Gabriel as its outline, this analysis presents a fully holistic view of a world religion that has thrived for more than 1,000 years. -publisher
Origins of the Kabbalah
Gershom Scholem
JPS, 1987
296.16 S368or
Gershom Scholem's Origins of the Kabbalah provides a painstakingly detailed history of Kabbalah's rise among medieval French and Spanish Jews, describes the first publication of Jewish mystical texts, and investigates the growth of their influence on Jewish religious life. The book also doubles back to describe secret traditions of Jewish Gnosticism, which describe a Creation story so numerological and esoteric it makes the New Testament book of Revelation look as simple and straightforward as a Saturday-morning cartoon. This book is much denser than Scholem's excellent On the Kabbalah and its Symbolism, but for readers with a basic knowledge of Kabbalah, it shouldn't be rough going. --Michael Joseph Gross (Amazon)