Product Description: In Dust Bound for Heaven Reinhard Hütter shows how Thomas Aquinas's view of the human being as dust bound for heaven weaves together elements of two questions without fusion or reduction. Does humanity still have an insatiable thirst for God that sends each person on an irrepressible religious quest that only the vision of God can quench? Or must the human being, living after the fall, become a "new creation" in order to be readied for heaven?Hütter also applies Thomas's anthropology to a host of pressing contemporary concerns, including the modern crisis of faith and reason, political theology, the relationship between divine grace and human freedom, and many more...read more

Product Description: The essays in this volume explore three areas in which St. Thomas Aquinas's voice has never fallen silent: sacred doctrine, the relationship of sacraments and metaphysics, and the central role of virtue in moral theology. For Aquinas, sacramental theology studies how Christ Jesus acts in the Church through created instruments, namely, the sacraments and their ministers...read more

Product Description: In 2001, Time magazine named him "America's best theologian." Now, Stanley Hauerwas is being honored once again--this time by his peers. This stirring new collection engages the key themes of Hauerwas's influential scholarly career...read more

Product Description: "Bound to Be Free" explores the scriptural concepts of church ("ekklesia"), freedom ("eleutheria"), and truthful speech ("parrhesia"), showing not only that the proper meanings of three concepts interpenetrate one another but also that rending them asunder lies at the root of Christian division today...read more

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Product Description: This book offers the first sustained Protestant response to Pope John Paul II's recent moral encyclicals -- Veritatis Splendor and Evangelium Vitae -- in the English-speaking world. Written by ten Protestant and two Catholic scholars internationally known in the fields of theology and ethics, these essays address central theological issues -- Scripture and ethics, faith and conscience, freedom and law, human nature and individuality -- and also press such key moral questions as euthanasia, abortion and the death penalty...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)