The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Catholicism

Provides a broad and deep survey of Roman Catholic life and thought, updated and expanded throughout The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Catholicism provides an authoritative overview of the history, doctrine, practices, and expansion of Catholicism. Written by a group of distinguished scholars, this comprehensive reference work offers an illuminating account of the global, historical, and cultural phenomena of Catholicism. Accessible chapters address central topics in the practice of Catholic theology and the development of doctrine, including God and Jesus Christ, creation and Church, the Virgin Mary, the sacraments, moral theology, eschatology, and more. Throughout the text, the authors illustrate the unity and diversity of Catholic life and thought while highlighting the ways Catholicism overlaps with, and transforms, other ways of living and thinking. Now in its second edition, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Catholicism is fully updated to include recent developments in the study of Catholicism. Extensively revised and expanded chapters, many of which written by new authors, address contemporary issues such as theology and politics, environmentalism, and the clerical sexual abuse crisis. Entirely new chapters cover the early modern Church, the Bible in Catholic theology, the Eastern Catholic churches, liturgy, care for creation, the consecrated life, challenges for the Catholic Church, and more. An informed and engaging intellectual journey through the past and present of Roman Catholicism, The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Catholicism: Illustrates the diversity of modern Catholic life and thought Describes Catholics in different lands, including the Holy Land, India, Africa, Europe, the British Isles, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas Surveys spirituality and ecumenism, inter-religious dialog, Catholic schools and hospitals, art and the sciences, the Holy See, and other central Catholic institutions and practices Covers major eras in Catholic history, from the Scriptures and the early Church to Post-Modernity Features new material on diverse practices of Catholicism across cultures, the global dimensions of the Catholic Church, race and ethnicity, and Eastern Catholic Churches The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Catholicism, Second Edition, is the ideal textbook for surveys classes on Catholicism and Catholic theology in Catholic, Protestant, and non-confessional colleges and universities. It is also an invaluable resource for scholars and general readers interested in broadening their knowledge of Catholicism.

List of Contributors x Introduction: A Seamless Coat of Many Colors xix Frederick C. Bauerschmidt, James J. Buckley, Jennifer Newsome Martin, and Trent Pomplun Part I Catholic Histories 1 1 The Old Testament 3 Claire Mathews McGinnis 2 The New Testament 17 Luke Timothy Johnson 3 The Early Church 31 Angela Russell Christman and Andrew Mercer 4 The Middle Ages 44 Frederick C. Bauerschmidt 5 The Reformation 57 Carlos M.N. Eire 6 The Baroque Age 75 Trent Pomplun 7 Modernity and Postmodernity 87 Grant Kaplan Part II Catholic Cultures 101 8 The Holy Land 103 David B. Burrell, C.S.C. 9 India 116 Michael Amaladoss, S.J. 10 Africa 127 Emmanuel Katongole 11 Europe 144 Emmanuel Perrier O.P. 12 Catholicism in Britain and Ireland 162 Maria Power, Stephen Bullivant, and Tim Kinnear 13 Latin American Catholicism 174 Michelle A. Gonzalez 14 North America 186 Sandra Yocum 15 Asia 202 Peter C. Phan 16 Oceania 217 Tracey Rowland Part III Catholic Doctrines 231 17 The Practice of Catholic Theology 233 Joseph Augustine Di Noia, O.P. 18 Scripture in the Making of Catholic Theology 247 Olivier-Thomas Venard, O.P. 19 The Development of Doctrine 262 John E. Thiel 20 God 278 Matthew Levering 21 Creation and Human Beings 289 Philip Porter 22 Christology 301 Bruce D. Marshall 23 The Holy Spirit 314 Elizabeth T. Groppe 24 Mary 326 Trent Pomplun 25 Church 338 Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J. and Michael M. Canaris 26 The Liturgy and Sacraments 352 Susan K. Wood, SCL 27 Catholic Moral Theology 366 Jana Marguerite Bennett 28 The End, or Ends 378 James J. Buckley Part IV Catholic Institutions and Practices 393 29 The Holy See 395 Francis A. Sullivan, S.J. and Michael M. Canaris 30 The Eastern Catholic Churches 408 Christiaan Kappes 31 Catholicism and Consecrated Life 420 Gill Goulding, CJ 32 Spirituality 431 Wendy M. Wright 33 Liturgy and Ritual 445 Kimberly Hope Belcher 34 Ecumenism 454 Michael Root 35 Interreligious Dialogue 468 Gavin D'Costa 36 Art and Literature 482 Jennifer Newsome Martin 37 Theology and Politics 496 William T. Cavanaugh 38 Justice and Peace 510 Kelly S. Johnson 39 Race, Ethnicity, and Catholicism 522 Joseph S. Flipper 40 Schools, Charities, Hospitals 536 Michael J. Baxter 41 Care for Creation, Environmentalism, and Ecology 550 Matthew Philipp Whelan 42 Challenges for the Catholic Church 565 Christopher Altieri Index 579