Joy and human flourishing : essays on theology, culture, and the good life /

Joy and human flourishing : essays on theology, culture, and the good life /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Minneapolis : Fortress Press, [2015]
Description:	xviii, 155 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Joy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Joy -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10424169

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Varying Form of Title:	Essays on theology, culture, and the good life
Other authors / contributors:	Volf, Miroslav, editor. Crisp, Justin E., editor.
ISBN:	1451482078 9781451482072 9781506402864
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-146) and index.
Summary:	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 experts in systematic and pastoral theology, Christian ethics, and biblical studies--demonstrate the promise of joy to throw open new theological possibilities and cast fresh light on all dimensions of human life. With contributions from Jurgen Moltmann, N.T. Wright, Marianne Meye Thompson, Mary Clark Moschella, Charles Mathewes, and Miroslav Volf, this volume puts joy at the heart of Christian faith and life, exploring joy's biblical, dogmatic, ecclesiological, and ethical dimensions in concert with close attention to the shifting tides of culture. Convinced of the need to offer to the world a compelling Christian vision of the good life, the authors treat the connections between joy and themes of creation, theodicy, politics, suffering, pastoral practice, eschatology, and more, driven by the conviction that vital relationship with the living God is integral to our fullest flourishing as human creatures.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: A Bright Sorrow
1. Christianity: A Religion of Joy
2. Reflections on Joy in the Bible
3. Joy: Some New Testament Perspectives and Questions
4. Toward a Theology of Joy
5. Calling and Compassion: Elements of Joy in Lived
6. The Crown of the Good Life: A Hypothesis
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index