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

Joy is crucial to human life and central to God's relationship to the world, yet it is remarkably absent from contemporary theology and, increasingly, from our own lives! This collection remedies this situation by considering the import of joy on human flourishing. These essays--written by expe...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Crisp, Justin E. (Éditeur intellectuel), Volf, Miroslav (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction : a bright sorrow / Justin E. Crisp
  • 1. Christianity : a religion of joy / Jürgen Moltmann
  • 2. Reflections on joy in the Bible / Marianne Meye Thompson
  • 3. Joy : some New Testament perspectives and questions / N.T. Wright
  • 4. Toward a theology of joy / Charles Mathewes
  • 5. Calling and compassion : elements of joy in lived practices of care / Mary Clark Moschella
  • 6. The crown of the good life : a hypothesis / Miroslav Volf.