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In Volume Two/2 catholic theology treats some of the great Western attempts at reflecting on the nature of God; it also takes on modern Western religiosity, both as it professes belief in God and as it has settled for various forms of atheism. But more importantly, the book discovers and rediscovers the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, of Moses and the prophets the God of Jesus Christ. Frans Jozef van Beeck, born in the Netherlands in1930, a Jesuit since 1948, and a priest since 1963, has lived and learned (and taught) in the United States since 1968. He is a senior professor of theology at Loyola University, Chicago.
This volume of God Encountered explores the human habit of balking at both death and love, especially the intimate love that accepts death as its measure. It also suggests the transformation of this habit offered us by God, with a pained love, of the kind that is in the end irresistible. The Jewish and Christian traditions say that we neither know nor love the eternal source not only of all cosmic energy but also of the human thirst for truth and goodness: God. Yet, only by God are we inclusively known and intimately loved, from eternity. God promises to be our lasting good, to live with us forever, acknowledged by all. Thus the Great Tradition knows of a plight infinitely worse than falling victim first to mindless passion and then also to the fatal seduction of our "best judgments." Such a plight is turning from God; being addicted, with Adam and Eve, to mastery and judgment; living in fear of death. Our world is finding this "theonomous" reading of the human condition unlikely. Why? Father van Beeck offers his explanation.
"A Michael Glazier book"--Vol. 2, pt. 2, t.p. Vol. 2 published by the Liturgical Press, Collegeville, Minn. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. v. 1. Understanding the Christian faith -- v. 2. The revelation of the glory. pt. 1. Introduction and fundamental theology. pt. 2. One God, creator of all that is. pt. 3. Finitude and fall. pt. 4A. The genealogy of depravity: morality and immorality.
God Encountered: A Contemporary Catholic Systematic Theology, Volume Two/4
"A Michael Glazier book"--Vol. 2, pt. 2, t.p. Vol. 2 published by the Liturgical Press, Collegeville, Minn. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. v. 1. Understanding the Christian faith -- v. 2. The revelation of the glory. pt. 1. Introduction and fundamental theology. pt. 2. One God, creator of all that is. pt. 3. Finitude and fall. pt. 4A. The genealogy of depravity: morality and immorality.
God Encountered: A Contemporary Catholic Systematic Theology, Volume One
This series presents a theological system in the Catholic tradition that is superbly organized and clearly articulated.