{"product_id":"religion-and-the-human-future-isbn-9781405155267","title":"Religion and the Human Future","description":"This powerful manifesto outlines a vision called theological humanism based on the idea that that the integrity of life provides a way to articulate the meaning of religion for the human future.  \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores a profound quest to understand the meaning and responsibility of our shared and yet divided humanity amidst the uncertainty of modern society\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eArticulates the idea that human beings are mixed creatures striving for integrity not only trying to conform to God's will\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSets forth a dynamic and robust vision of human life beyond the divisions that haunt the humanities, social sciences, theology, and religious studies\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Acknowledgments. \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I The Shape of Theological Humanism\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Ideas and Challenges.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The Humanist Imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Thinking of God.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. The Logic of Christian Humanism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. On the Integrity of Life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II The Task of Theological Humanism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Our Endangered Garden.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. A School for Conscience.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Masks of Mind.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Religion and Spiritual Integrity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Living Theological Humanism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e  \"\u003ci\u003eReligion and the Human Future\u003c\/i\u003e provides an excellent, well thought-out and well documented analysis of the current dilemma facing religions and religious people: the human dangers and inadequacies of hypertheism, with its exaggerated response to the challenge of modernity and over humanization, with its overly unreflective veneration for modernity.\" (\u003ci\u003eEthical Perspectives\u003c\/i\u003e, July 2010)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \"This text sounds a clarion call to change the debate about the role of religion in human life. ... With limited endnotes and an engaging style, this carefully argued text mostly succeeds in its attempt to be accessible to a wider audience that could include upperlevel undergraduates.\" (\u003ci\u003eReligious Studies Review\u003c\/i\u003e, September 2009)  \u003cb\u003eDavid E. Klemm\u003c\/b\u003e is a Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at The University of Iowa. He is the author of a number of books, including \u003ci\u003eHermeneutical Inquiry\u003c\/i\u003e, volumes I and II (1986), \u003ci\u003eThe Hermeneutical Theory of Paul Ricoeur: A Constructive Analysis\u003c\/i\u003e (1983), and is co-editor of \u003ci\u003eFiguring the Self: Subject, Absolute, and Others in Classical German Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), and \u003ci\u003eMeanings in Texts and Actions: Questioning Paul Ricoeur\u003c\/i\u003e (1993).  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Schweiker\u003c\/b\u003e is Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics at the University of Chicago and Director of the Martin Marty Center. He is the author of numerous books, articles and essays, including \u003ci\u003eTheological Ethics and Global Dynamics: In the Time of Many Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e, and editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Blackwell Companion to Religious Ethics\u003c\/i\u003e (both Wiley-Blackwell, 2004).\u003c\/p\u003e  Ours is a time when cultures and religions creatively interact but also often collide, and human power increasingly endangers forms of life even while great technological advances enable us to better relieve suffering and want. It is a time of great uncertainty, unrest, but also creativity, which reveals a profound quest to understand the meaning and responsibility of our shared and yet divided humanity. It is this religious quest for humanity that authors David E. Klemm and William Schweiker address in this Blackwell Manifesto.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe authors outline a vision called theological humanism based on the idea that neither God's will nor human flourishing alone provide an adequate measure and orientation for human life. The task of human life is responsibility for the integrity of life, the measure of human action. Yet more than that, the idea of theological humanism articulates a profound and ancient insight too often lost in the current debate between theologians and humanists - that human beings are mixed creatures striving for wholeness and integrity.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis powerful manifesto sets forth a dynamic and robust vision of human life beyond the divisions that haunt the humanities, social sciences, theology, and religious studies. It announces a way of thinking about and living out the quest for our humanity and thus the task of religion and the human future.\u003c\/p\u003e  \"This is a very impressive book which works its way through a wide range of serious issues with a poise and balance that is rare in academic books. It is well informed and wise, weighing in on contentious intellectual problems without being judgmental and sectarian and is unique in both acknowledging and articulating the inevitable ambiguity of religion.\"\u003cbr\u003e –\u003cb\u003eDale Wright,\u003c\/b\u003e Occidental College, CA\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\"At a time when discourse about religion seems polarised between fideistic theism and reductive secularism, Klemm and Schweiker provide an imaginative \"third way,\" in the form of a robust theological humanism that draws on and transforms the rich resources of theological and humanist traditions. This is an indispensable book that takes us beyond the stalemates of the present into a truly hopeful future grounded in human responsibility for the integrity of life.\"\u003cbr\u003e –\u003cb\u003eJoseph Prabhu,\u003c\/b\u003e California State University, Los Angeles\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This essay on Theological Humanism is a welcome and powerful reminder that the primary task of theology is to explore the truth about divine-human relationship - and not to justify the ends and means of particular religious (or secular) institutions or 'communities'. Theological Humanism is committed to critical and self-critical thinking about the potential of human beings to mature in God's universe where the integrity of all life is respected. This manifesto offers a new orientation for theology today.\"\u003cbr\u003e –\u003cb\u003eWerner G. Jeanrond,\u003c\/b\u003e University of Glasgow\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989939306725,"sku":"NP9781405155267","price":107.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405155267.jpg?v=1761785971","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/religion-and-the-human-future-isbn-9781405155267","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}