Reconstructing Theology

<p>Francis Schssler Fiorenza is one of the pivotal contemporary Roman Catholics working in systematic theology. Terence Bateman provides an overview of Fiorenzas theological biography and explicates the major contours of Fiorenzas vital contributions to theological method foundational systematic and constructive theology and the practical function of religion in society and politics. As Bateman argues Fiorenzas vision is one of unrivaled clarity and coherence; even more it follows a path of the shifting patterns in theology over the past half century thus shedding light upon the internal constitution of recent Catholic and Protestant theology.</p>