Theology and the Social Sciences
 Michael Horace Barnes, ed.

Maryknoll, NY:  Orbis Books, 2000
College Theology Society Annual Volume 46

Introduction.  Michael Horace Barnes
    Goats in the tent; sitting on Mt. Zion.

Part I.  General Issues

1.  Remarks of a Theologian in Dialogue with Sociology.
     Gregory Baum,  McGill University

2.  Every Theology Implies a Sociology and Vice Versa.
     John Coleman, S.J.,  Loyola Marymount University

3.  Whose Theology?  Which Sociology? 
     A Response to John Coleman.
     Michael J. Baxter, University of Notre Dame

4.  Theological Manners: 
     How Theologians Should Behave in Public.
     Boyd Blundell, Boston College

Part II.  Special Theories

5.   Social Science and Ecclesiology:  Cybernetics in
      Patrick Granfield's Theology of the Church.
      Peter C. Phan, The Catholic University of America

6.   The Historical Fact of the Resurrection.
      Terrence W. Tilley,  University of Dayton

7.   Hans Urs von Balthazar on
      the Use of Social Sciences in Ecclesial Reflection:
      Exposition, Analysis, and Critique.
      James K. Voiss, S.J.,  St. Louis University.

Part III.  Cross-Cultural Contexts

8.   Sankara, Augustine, and Rites de Passage:
      Comparative Theology with Victor Turner.
      Reid B. Locklin,  Boston College

7.   Ad Experimentum:  The Paradoxes of
      Indian Catholic Inculturation
      Mathew N. Schmalz,  College of the Holy Cross

8.   Karl Rahner's Principles of Ecumenism
      and Contemporary Religious Pluralism.
     Jeannine Hill Fletcher, Harvard Divinity School

Part IV.  The Social Sciences as Resources

9.   Religion and Society--2 Sides of the Same Coin, I.
      James Davidson, Purdue University

10.  Religion and Society--2 Sides of the Same Coin, II.
       Patricia Wittberg, S.C.,   Indiana University

11.  Traversing the Social Landscape: The Value of
       the Social Scientific Approach to the Bible.
       Victor H. Mathews, Southwest Missouri State University

12.  The Value of the Social Scientific Approach
       to the Bible:  A Response to Victor H. Matthews.
      Carol J. Dempsey, O.P.,  University of Portland

13.  From Catholic Social Teaching
       to Catholic Social Tradition.
       Judith A. Merkle,  Niagara University

14.  Domestic Churches:  Sociological Challenge and
       Theological Imperative.
       Florence Caffrey Bourg,  Mount St. Joseph College

15.  Examining the Role of the Emotions in the Moral Life:
       Thomas Aquinas and Neuropsychology.
       William C. Mattison, III, University of Notre Dame

16.  Interpreting the Dreams of Perpetua:
       Psychology in the Service of Theology.
       Felicidad Oberholzer, Saint Mary's College of California.

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