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Thinking Theologically traces Aquinas's subtle grammatical and thematic engagements with the doctrine of the divine ideas throughout the Summa Theologiae. This study offers new insights into the contributions of Aquinas's doctrine to debates about eschatology, christology, providence, natural law, virtue, and creation's participation in the trinitarian life of God. It argues that Aquinas adapts the doctrine to support his pedagogical goal of guiding readers from the confession of faith to the wisdom of sacra doctrina. In turn, this demonstrates that Aquinas's reading of the divine ideas reinforces his understanding of the dynamic exchange between philosophical reasoning and theological inquiry

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- PART I: THINKING INTERCULTURAL THEOLOGY -- 1 The Quest for Intercultural Theology -- 2 Discernment: Beyond Liberal and Confessional Theologies -- 3 The Intercultural Turn: Shaping the Envelope -- 4 Reappraising Hermeneutics: Theology without Frontiers -- 5 The Secular and the Religious: Culture and Politics -- PART II: FOCUSING INTERCULTURAL THEOLOGY: GOD, CHRISTOLOGY AND HUMAN RIGHTS -- 6 Humane Praxis and the Distinctively Christian -- 7 Human Rights, Theological Partnership -- PART III: INTEGRATING INTERCULTURAL THEOLOGY: EMBODYING INTERDISCIPLINARITY -- 8 Theology, Culture and the Humanities -- 9 Intercultural Theology and the Sciences -- 10 Theology in Metamodern Culture -- 11 The Mystery of God -- Bibliography -- Index

Jewish Christianity, the Qur'an, and early Islam : some methodological caveats / Guillaume Dye -- The Jewish and/or Christian audience of the Qur'an and the Arabic Bible / Robert Hoyland -- Du verus propheta Chrétien (Ébionite?) au Sceau des Prophètes musulman / Simon C. Mimouni -- Jewish Christianity and Islamic origins : the transformation of a peripheral religious movement? / Francisco del Río -- The Jews and Christians of pre-Islamic Yemen (Ḥimyar) and the elusive matrix of the Qur'an's Christology / Carlos A. Segovia -- Jewish Christianity, non-trinitarianism, and the beginnings of Islam / Stephen Shoemaker -- Judaeo-Christian legal culture and the Qur'an : the case of ritual slaughter and the consumption of animal blood / Holger Zellentin

"Reflections on Freedom and Movement During the First Christian Centuries. Freedom and movement are two concepts that appear to have a shared destiny. Common sense tells us that freedom means being able to move freely and at will. Philosophers have long been interested in the concept of movement, as evidenced by Aristotle's Physics. Freedom, on the other hand, is thought to be a later concern by some scholars. The ancient Greeks exercised freedom in the public sphere without thinking about it. However, over time, Early Christian authors, influenced by Stoics, have radically changed the ancient paradigm regarding freedom and movement. Keywords: movement, freedom, Aristotelianism, Stoicism, Christianity, Christology"

Having been distorted since modern times, the notions of truth and freedom have been radically juxtaposed in post-modern worldviews, consequently resulting in the loss of key values: the truth is questioned, while freedom is determined and limited by worldly purposes. J. Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) shows that the terms are de facto, theologically important (Theological Hermeneutics); i.e., they can be fully and properly understood from the heart of Christian faith God is the right guarantor of the truth (involving the existence of the objective and judicious reality) and the Embodiment of God's Son, Logos, is the ultimate argument for its attainability and cognizability. When Jesus said: "I am the truth" (John 14 : 6) He convinced that the truth is universal and belongs to God. Thereby, it remains universally binding; it is the appropriate basis of ethos. The truth constitutes the key to interpreting reality and is a superior (independent) criterion for its arrangement (also in the social and political sense). Thus, the task of Christianity and theology is to restore the proper, Christological understanding of truth and freedom for the world, as well as their inseparable, redemptive relationship: "the truth will set you free" (John 8 : 32).

Frontmatter -- Contents -- General Editors' Preface -- PART ONE: TRADITION AND INNOVATION -- 1 Dialectic of Authority -- 2 Method: Trend and Variations -- 3 Mission and the Spirit -- 4 Aquinas Today: Tradition and Innovation -- 5 Prolegomena to the Study of the Emerging Religious Consciousness of Our Time -- 6 Christology Today: Methodological Reflections -- 7 Healing and Creating in History -- PART TWO: LECTURES ON RELIGIOUS STUDIES AND THEOLOGY -- Preface -- 8 First Lecture: Religious Experience -- 9 Second Lecture: Religious Knowledge -- 10 Third Lecture: The Ongoing Genesis of Methods -- PART THREE: THEORY AND PRAXIS -- 11 Natural Right and Historical Mindedness -- 12 Theology and Praxis -- 13 A Post-Hegelian Philosophy of Religion -- 14 Pope John's Intention -- 15 Unity and Plurality: The Coherence of Christian Truth -- Index

The legend of Sergius Bahira in the light of Christian apologetics vis-a-vis Islam -- Muslim-Christian confrontation and counterhistory -- The Islamic Bahira -- The apocalypse of Bahira -- Bahira's teachings -- Breaking crosses -- God's word and his spirit-Bahira's christology -- Protection and recognition-Bahira and Q 5:82 -- The physics of heaven -- The Qur'an against Islam -- The legend outside the legend -- Bahira the source -- Bahira the heretic -- Bahira the false witness -- Bahira the victim -- Jewish traditions about Bahira -- Bahira the forecaster -- Concluding discussion -- Texts and translations -- The recensions and the manuscript tradition -- Some characteristics of the recensions -- Textual genealogy -- Manuscripts -- Conspectus siglorum -- Methodological considerations -- The East-Syrian recension -- The West-Syrian recension -- The short Arabic recension -- The long Arabic recension