Description
Navigates readers through the signs of the times, wrestling with questions raised by religious pluralism and economic injustices.
In this two-part collection of recent essays, appearing in book form for the first time, Gregory Baum takes a critical look at the signs of the times. The result is a contextual theology that takes its historical location seriously and responds to the challenges addressed to it.
In the first section, Baum examines the Muslim-Christian dialogue after September 11, 2001, presenting the reader with a new generation of progressive Muslim intellectuals. He introduces a sociology of knowledge, exploring the dark side of religion and explaining why Christians reject the relativism of modernity.
In the second section, on economic injustice, Baum examines Christians' responses to another sign of the times: the globalization of the unregulated market system, and suggests that it forces us to re-evaluate what faith, hope, and love mean.
Also by Gregory Baum:
Religion and Alienation(2nd edition), $24.95, paperback, 264 pages ISBN 2895078009
Amazing Church, $18.95, paperback, 175 pages ISBN 2895075700
About the author
GREGORY BAUM served as an expert for the Vatican Council II from 1960 to 1965. For 28 years, he taught theology at St. Michael's College in Toronto and, from 1986 on, was a professor of religious studies at McGill University in Montreal. He is the author of many books and articles on ecumenism, the theology of the Christian life, Catholic social teaching and the sociology of religion. Baum was the founding editor of The Ecumenist: A Journal of Theology, Culture and Society.
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