Grace and Friendship: Theological Essays in Honor of Fred Lawrence, from his grateful students (Marquette Studies in Theology) - Hardcover

M. Shawn Copeland (editor) & Jeremy D. Wilkins (editor)

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1626007101 ISBN 13: 9781626007109

Publisher: Marquette University Press, 2016

Synopsis

This collection of essays celebrates Frederick Goddard Lawrence, a member of the faculty of theology of Boston College for more than forty years, for not only his original theological and philosophical work as a formidable philosopher of hermeneutics, a leading interpreter of the thought of Bernard Lonergan, and an inspiring teacher but also the authenticity and integrity of his scholarship, his teaching, and his life. The essays comprising this volume explore and develop themes resonant in the work of both Lawrence and Lonergan including interiority analysis and self-appropriation, political theology and hope, grace and conversion, love and friendship.With contributions from the following: Steven D. Cone, Frederick E. Crowe, Charles C. Hefling, Christian S. Krokus, Paul Joseph LaChance, Mark T. Miller, Joseph C. Mudd, L. Matthew Petillo, Randall S. Rosenberg, J. Michael Stebbins, Ryoko Tamura, Kevin M. Vander Schel, Michael Vertin, Kathleen M. Williams.

About this title

About the Author:

M. Shawn Copeland is Professor of Systematic Theology at Boston College. She is the author or editor of five books including Enfleshing Freedom: Body, Race, and Being as well as more than 100 articles, book chapters, reviews, and blog entries on spirituality, theological anthropology, political theology, social suffering, gender and race. Jeremy D. Wilkins is Associate Professor at Regis College, the Jesuit theologate at the University of Toronto, and Director of the Lonergan Research Institute, home of Bernard Lonergan's archives. He is co-editor of Lonergan's The Incarnate Word and The Redemption in the Collected Works series, and the author of numerous articles.

About this edition

• Publisher: Marquette University Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1626007101
• ISBN 13: 9781626007109
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 380