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Book SynopsisThis collection of essays reflects on the urgent theological questions of our day. They also present a commendation of the life and academic career of William M. Shea-_particularly his instinctive empathy for the 'other' and the contribution of multiple voices in our understanding of humanity, religion, and Christianity.
Table of ContentsChapter 1 EPISTEMOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTION: Experience and Narrative Chapter 2 Is Naturalism the Disease? Chapter 3 Lonergan and Shea on Belief and Knowledge:Positions, Counter-Positions, and Contemporary Challenges Chapter 4 The Religious Obligation to Be Intelligent Chapter 5 Moral Autonomy in the Church: Lonergan and the Natural Law Chapter 6 THEOLOGY AND AMERICAN CULTURES: A Bull in the China Shop: Bill Shea and the Professionalization of Theology at Saint Louis University Chapter 7 That "Boot on Your Neck" Feeling: An Appreciation of Albany's Irish-Catholic Democratic Machine Chapter 8 Anna Hanson Dorsey: Gender and the Discourse of Nineteenth-Century U.S. Catholic Apologetics Chapter 9 .Francis Kenrick and Papal Infallibility: How Pastoral Experience in the American Missions Transformed a Roman Ultramontanist Chapter 10 Genealogy of a Metaphor: Evolution and the "Warfare" Between Science and Religion Chapter 11 The Lion and the Lamb in the Borderlands: Applying Shea's Analysis of Evangelicals and Catholics to Mexico Chapter 12 ECUMENISM AND INTERRELIGIOUS DIALOGUE: Rabbinic Utopia Chapter 13 The Pope and Fundamentalism: Benedict XVI and theDevelopment of the Papal Doctrine of Fundamentalism Chapter 14 Rescuing Regensburg Chapter 15 Conventional Folly: Islamophobia and Double Standards in Public Discourse about Islam and Muslims Chapter 16 Reflections on the Controversy over Pius XII and the Holocaust Chapter 17 THEOLOGY AND RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE: "Continual Self-Contemplation": John Henry Newman's Critique of Evangelicalism Chapter 18 Writing A Scholarly Screenplay: "William Wordsworth and the Will of God" Chapter 19 From Autobiography to the Ethics of Theological Reflection in Augustine and William Shea
