This book is the fruit of a close collaboration between three leading scholars with a background in systematics, philosophical theology and ethics. It sets out a new account of how incarnation is mediated in the world of space and time, leading to a new orientation of theology within the world. The doctrinal ("from above") and philosophical ("from below") sections lead to a new exposition of Christian life in confrontation with deepseated problems of ethics and justice. The three pieces closely interweave with each other in the elaboration of a new kind of practical, doctrinal theology of full philosophical integrity.

Transformation Theology: Church in the World

Religion & Spirituality

Davies, Oliver

Janz, Paul D.

Sedmak, Clemens

Christian Books & Bibles

Bloomsbury T&T Clark

T&T Clark

What difference would Catholic Social Tradition make if it guided our personal and communal financial decision-making? The Sermon on the Mount reminds us of this fundamental decision-making when it comes to questions of faith and money: “No one can serve two masters; for a slave will either hate the one and love the other or be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth” (Matthew 6:24). In Counting the Cost, Clemens Sedmak and Kelli Reagan Hickey suggest a theological and spiritual discernment process for the everyday reality of budgeting and financial planning that explores the status of money and monetary values by reflecting on this gospel call.\nCounting the Cost explains how Catholic Social Teaching provides a framework for our thinking around finances by answering questions such as: What does this fundamental decision look like in times of financial scarcity and stewardship responsibilities? How do the attitudes that Jesus invites us into shape the ways we make financial decisions? And how can budgeting be and become a way of discipleship for individuals, parishes, and dioceses? The book includes a range of financial decision-making examples and reconstructs them as decisions about priorities, values, and commitments to respond to the world and its material realities in a gospel-inspired way.

Counting the Cost: Financial Decision-Making, Discipleship, and Christian Living (Enacting Catholic Social Tradition)

Business & Money

Reagan Hickey, Kelli

Personal Finance

Liturgical Press

Clemens Sedmak's Doing Local Theology, presents the construction of "local theologies" as an enterprise that is not just for Latin Americans, Asians, or Africans. Nor just for theologians. Instead, it is the art of thinking theologically about any local church and implementing a process that grounds people intentionally and aesthetically in the deepest Christian dimensions of their daily lives. This book is beautifully written and will become a standard in courses on method in theology, foundations of ministry, and adult discussion groups. Theologizing, in Sedmak's terms, is reflection on people's everyday world, on everyday occurrences, and on local realities. Most of all, he shows how the everyday is where people encounter God in their relationships with one another, their larger communities, and the very physical environment we live in. If Robert Schreiter's monumental Constructing Local Theologies provides theoretical underpinning on the nature of local theologies, Clemens Sedmak shows that it is an art in which people learn to understand themselves and find full freedom as God's daughters and sons.

Doing Local Theology: A Guide for Artisans of a New Humanity

Orbis Books

Using a broad range of resources, the author examines how Pope Francis's emphasis on the Church of the poor is calling us to a new epistemic practice, involving an understanding of orthodoxy as discipleship, and discipleship as a new way of getting to know and understand the world.

A Church of the Poor: Pope Francis and the Transformation of Orthodoxy

Review\n"A rich discussion of how we can move from the principles of Catholic Social Tradition to lives concretely shaped by this tradition. Sedmak helps us see how to live out Catholic Social Thought in challenging concrete situations and how to shed light from this tradition on challenges that are genuinely new. An innovative reflection on how to translate principles into action."--David Hollenbach, SJ, Pedro Arrupe Distinguished Professor, Georgetown University\n"A rich discussion of how we can move from the principles of Catholic Social Tradition to lives concretely shaped by this tradition. Sedmak helps us see how to live out Catholic Social Thought in challenging concrete situations and how to shed light from this tradition on challenges that are genuinely new. An innovative reflection on how to translate principles into action."--David Hollenbach, SJ, Pedro Arrupe Distinguished Professor, Georgetown University\n"A refreshingly profound dive into the Christ-centered spirituality of Catholic Social Tradition, anchored in the deep practice of human dignity. Engaging in its raw concreteness, Sedmak's imaginative approach to Catholic Social Tradition provides an indispensable guide for translating, enacting, and applying its Gospel-based principles and therapeutic properties to complex and unsettling realities of our times." Agbonkhianmeghe E. Orobator, SJ, President of the Jesuit Conference of Africa and Madagascar\n"Pope Francis's pontificate drew new attention to Catholic social tradition, thought, and teaching. In light of the testimony offered by modern-day prophets like Oscar Romero and Dorothy Day, Sedmak's book provides essential and timely clarifications and criteria for the application of CST in the world and in the Church of today, with crucial attention to the pastoral and practical dimensions."--Massimo Faggioli, author, The Liminal Papacy of Pope Francis\nProvides a needed emphasis on the fact that CST stems not from arbitrary laws laid down by Church leaders, but rather from moral guidance directly inspired by Scripture, especially the command to love Christ and the neighbor, even if doing so is extremely difficult in real-life situations. Through the use of multiple examples encountered both in parishes and in the secular world (e.g., racism, vegetarianism, taxation), the book gives helpful counsel on being mindful of particularity and contextual concerns.\nFrom the Back Cover\nRELIGION / Christianity / Catholic 
RELIGION / Christian Theology / Ethics 
RELIGION / Christian Living / Social Issues 
Cover design: Diane Mastrogiulio 
US$35.00 
ISBN: 9781626984691

Enacting Catholic Social Tradition: The Deep Practice of Human Dignity

Orbis

Enacting Integral Human Development

Self-Help

Happiness

About the Author\nStephen Bevans, SVD, is Professor of Mission and Culture, Emeritus, at Catholic Theological Union, Chicago. Among his books are Models of Contextual Theology (2002) and An Introduction to Theology in Global Perspective (2009). Clemens Sedmak is Professor of Social Ethics at the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of many books, including Doing Local Theology (2002), A Church of the Poor (2016), and The Capacity to be Displaced (2017).\nClemens Sedmak is Professor of Social Ethics at the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author of many books, including Doing Local Theology (2002), A Church of the Poor (2016), and The Capacity to be Displaced (2017).\nThis book is a correspondence between two theologians and friends during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020–21. In it the authors reflect on the nature of God, the efficacy of prayer, the value of experience, the nature of theology itself, the importance of Christian hope, and many other topics. The style is familiar and light, rich, and full of wisdom.

Does God Love the Coronavirus?: Friendship, Theology, and Hope in a Post-COVID World

Bevans, Stephen

Wipf and Stock

Stress and Poverty: A Cross-Disciplinary Investigation of Stress in Cells, Individuals, and Society

The word&nbsp;stress&nbsp;is everywhere and highly overused. Everyone is stressed, it seems, all the time. Looking into the meaning of stress in the natural science and the humanities, this book explores cellular stress as cause of and in correlation with what humans experience as stress. When do we psychologically feel stress and when do we show physiological evidence of stress in our brain?&nbsp; Stress is a deviation from what feels normal and healthy. It can be created by social or economic factors and become chronic, which has substantial impacts on the individual and society as a whole. Focusing on poverty as one chronic inducer of stress, this book explores how the lack of pressure-free time, the hardships and unpredictability of everyday life and a general lack of protection lead to destructive toxic stress. This pressure affects cognitive and social functioning, brain development during childhood and may also result in premature aging. How can the sciences inform our understanding of and our response to stress? What can be done about toxic stress both on a personal level and in terms of structures and policies? The book is written for anyone interested in stress,&nbsp;its causes and consequences, and its relationship to poverty.&nbsp;

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Breitenbach, Michael

Kapferer, Elisabeth

Psychology & Counseling

Springer

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