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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Crisp, Justin E. (Editor), Volf, Miroslav (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Joy > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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