Faithful Reading

Dr Simon Oliver is Associate Professor in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. His research interests centre on issues in philosophical theology, the doctrine of creation, and theology and the history of natural science.Dr Karen Kilby is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Nottingham, UK.Dr Thomas O'Loughlin is Professor of Historical Theology at the University of Nottingham, UK. His research has focused on the theology of the early medieval period, and on the works of insular writers in particular.

• Foreword - Timothy Radcliffe, OP1. What Lacks is Feeling: Hume versus Kant and Habermas - John Milbank2. Newman, Wittgenstein and Foundationalism - Patrick Sherry3. Overcoming Modern Epistemology - Charles Taylor4. Augustine on Knowing God and Knowing the Self - Janet Soskice5. Culture, Faith and Reason - David B. Burrell, C.S.C6. Extending the Thomist Movement from the Twentieth to the Twenty-First Century: Under what Conditions could there be a ‘Literary Thomism’? - Oliver-Thomas Venard, OP7. The Parallel Journey of Faith and Reason: Another Look via Aquinas ’ s De Veritate - Simon Oliver8. Witness - Stanley Hauerwas and Charles Pinches9. Gender in the Theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar - Karen Kilby10. Nuptial Mysteries - Gerard Loughlin11. Discerning the Dynamics of Doctrinal Development: A Post-Foundationalist Perspective - Paul D. Murray12. Divisions in Christianity: The Contribution of ‘Appeals to Antiquity’ - Thomas O ’ Loughlin13. Tell it Slant: The True Motion of Love ’ s Contemplation - Cyrus P. Olsen14. Longing for Resurrection - Graham WardBibliography of works by Fergus Kerr, OPIndex

Faithful Reading is a beautiful act of homage to Fergus Kerr, who is one of the great theologian-philosophers of the last half-century. The range of topics treated in it -- epistemology, emotion, literary theory, imagination, the proper construal of Thomas, of Wittgenstein, of Newman, and always, first and last, of theology as something we humans cannot avoid doing -- is vast, as was true of Kerr's work. And the standard is consistently high: the passion of reason is evident in these essays, as it also is, to a high degree of intensity, in Kerr's own work.