Christian Wisdom: Desiring God and Learning in Love (Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine, Series Number 16) - Softcover

Ford, David F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521698383 ISBN 13: 9780521698382

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Synopsis

What is Christian wisdom for living in the twenty-first century? Where is it to be found? How can it be learnt? In the midst of diverse religions and worldviews and the demands and complexities of our world, David Ford explores a Christian way of uniting love of wisdom with wisdom in love. Core elements are the 'discernment of cries', the love of God for God's sake, interpretation of scripture, and the shaping of desire in faith. Case studies deal with inter-faith wisdom among Jews, Christians and Muslims, universities as centres of wisdom as well as knowledge and know-how and the challenge of learning disabilities. Throughout, there is an attempt to do justice to the premodern, modern and postmodern while grappling with scripture, tradition and the cries of the world today. Ford opens up the rich resources of Christianity in engaging with the issues and urgencies of contemporary life.

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Book Description

What is Christian wisdom for living in the twenty-first century? Where is it to be found? How can it be learnt? In the midst of the demands and complexities of contemporary life, David Ford explores a Christian way of desire, wisdom and love.

About the Author

David F. Ford is Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge. He is author of Self and Salvation: Being Transformed (1999) and co-editor with Ben Quash and Janet Martin Soskice of Fields of Faith: Theology and Religious Studies for the Twenty-First Century (2005).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0521698383
• ISBN 13: 9780521698382
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 428