Theological Reflection and the Pursuit of Ideals

Contemporary thought is marked by heated debates about the character purpose and form of religious thinking and its relation to a range of ideals: spiritual moral aesthetic political and ecological to name the obvious. This book addresses the interrelation between theological thinking and the complex and diverse realms of human ideals. What are the ideals appropriate to our moment in human history and how do these ideals derive from or relate to theological reflection in our time? In Theological Reflection and the Pursuit of Ideals internationally renowned scholars from a range of disciplines (physics art literary studies ethics comparative religion history of ideas and theology) engage with these crucial questions with the intention of articulating a new and historically appropriate vision of theological reflection and the pursuit of ideals for our global times.