Mapping the Tradition is a new series of brief, compact guides to pivotal thinkers in Christian history. Each volume focuses upon a particular figure and provides a concise but lucid introduction to the central features of each thinker’s work and sketches the lasting significance of that thinker for the history of Christian theology. As well, the series utilizes primary source works from each thinker as an entry point for exposition and exploration. Guided by leading scholars in history and theology, primary source texts are reproduced with explanatory commentary, and are accompanied by orientational essays to the context, contours, and historical and conceptual legacy of the corpus. Designed for beginning and intermediate students, as well as interested general readers, who will benefit from clear, helpful surveys of thinkers, texts, and theologies from across the epochs of Christian history and introduction to major issues and key historical and intellectual points of development.
Eras of exploration:
Early Christianity
Irenaeus of Lyons: The Making of the Great Tradition - Khaled Anatolios, Boston College
Athanasius: Trinitarian-Incarnational Soteriology and Its Reception - Thomas G. Weinandy, Dominican House of Studies, and Daniel Keating, St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology
The Dionysian Mystical Theology - Paul Rorem, Princeton Theological Seminary
John of Damascus: The Radiance of Orthodoxy- Andrew Louth, Durham University
Medieval
Thomas and the Thomists: The Achievement of Thomas Aquinas and his Interpreters -Romanus Cessario, O.P., St. John's Seminary, and Cajetan Cuddy, O.P., St. Joseph’s Church, New York City
Reformation
Luther and Christian Freedom - Robert Kolb, Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri
Enkindling Love: The Legacy of Teresa of Avila and John of the Cross - illian Ahlgren, Xavier University
Early Modern
Existing Before God: Søren Kierkegaard and the Human Venture - Paul R. Sponheim, Luther Seminary
Schleiermacher: The Psychology of Christian Faith and Life - Terrence N. Tice, University of Michigan
Modern
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