Aquinas in Dialogue: Thomas for the Twenty–First Century

Aquinas in Dialogue explores Aquinas’ relevance to contemporary theology. The volume comprises a series of essays written by both scholars of Aquinas and by those who are actively involved in ecumenical and inter–religious dialogue. These essays demonstrate how Aquinas continues to illuminate dialogue among Christians and between Christians and non–Christians. They cover a wide range of subjects from Aquinas and Eastern Orthodoxy to Aquinas and atheism, and help us to think rigorously about what is required to speak truthfully to people with different beliefs.

1. Aquinas, Merit and Reformation Theology After the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification: Michael Root (Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary). 2. Ex Occidente Lux? Aquinas and Eastern Orthodox Theology: Bruce D. Marshall (Southern Methodist University). 3. Thomas Aquinas and Judaism: Henk J. M. Schoot (Catholic Theological University of Utrecht ) and Pim Valkenberg (Catholic University of Nijmegen). 4. Thomas Aquinas and Islam: David B. Burrell, CSC (University of Notre Dame). 5. Aquinas Meets the Buddhists: Prolegomenon to an Authentically Thomas–ist Basis for Dialogue: Paul Williams (University of Bristol). 6. Aquinas and Analytical Philosophy: Natural Allies?: Fergus Kerr, OP (Blackfriars). 7. On Denying the Right God: Aquinas on Atheism and Idolatry: Denys Turner (University of Cambridge). 8. Shouting in the Land of the Hard of Hearing: Ob Being a Hillbilly Thomist: Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt (Loyola College).

Jim Fodor is Associate Professor of Theology at St. Bonaventure University. He is the co–editor of the journal, Modern Theology , and the author of Christian Hermeneutics: Paul Ricoeur and the Refiguring of Theology (1995). Frederick C. Bauerschmidt is Associate Professor of Theology at Loyola College in Maryland. He is the co–editor of the journal, Modern Theology , and the author of Julian of Norwich and the Mystical Body Politic of Christ (1999) and Why the Mystics Matter (2003).

"Jim Fodor and Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt have assembled a series of well–crafted and tightly reasoned essays . . . (they) have done us a great service by reminding us, once again, of Thomas Aquinas′s enduring relevance to the religious conversation." The Thomist <!––end––> " Aquinas in Dialogue brings together some of the most eminent of modern theological exponents of Aquinas′s thought to show how Aquinas engages with traditions other than his own: Lutheranism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, analytic philosophy, and atheism." Church Times