Naming And Thinking God In Europe Today: Theology In Global Dialogue.

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Is there a new need and place for God-talk in Europe? The volume at hand confirms this as much as it opens up further questions. It shows, in Europe, different traditions of naming and thinking God draw on varying theoretical and philosophical foundations that in many ways compete with one another. Due to socio-cultural and political divides, along with the complex histories and intellectual rivalries between Eastern and Western Europe, these theological traditions often suffer from isolation and from mutual misunderstanding. Can these tensions be better addressed and can these conflicts be better understood? While exploring a variety of approaches in Europe on the topic, several authors also ask: How can God be named and thought in Europe as it finds itself in midst of complex crosscultural and interreligious processes? Particularly as immigration increases and peoples of non-Christian faith traditions name and think God in ways that differ from and sometimes conflict with Europe's dominant religion(s) and secular culture. What function and impact will traditional God-talk have in a globalizing Europe as religions such as Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism come into the Western foreground? The volume at hand not only reveals the broad spectrum of its topic, but it also documents the vivid seeking undertaken by a new generation of European theologians and scholars of religion who openly engage the question of how to live and believe in Europe today in the face of increasingly complex global relations and challenges.

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