The Oxford Handbook of Catholic Theology

The Oxford Handbook of Catholic Theology provides a one-volume introduction to all the major aspects of Catholic theology. Part One considers the nature of theological thinking, and the major topics of Catholic teaching, including the Triune God, the Creation, and the mission of the Incarnate Word. It also covers the character of the Christian sacramental life and the major themes of Catholic moral teaching. The treatments in the first part of the Handbook offer personal syntheses of Catholic teaching, but each offers an account in accord with Catholic theology as it is expressed in the Second Vatican Council and authoritative documentation. Part Two focuses on the historical development of Catholic Theology. An initial section offers essays on some of Catholic theology's most important sources between 200 and 1870, and the final section of the collection considers all the main movements and developments in Catholic theology across the world since 1870. This comprehensive volume features fifty-six original contributions by some of the best-known names in current Catholic theology from the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa. The chapters are written in an engaging and easily comprehensible style functioning both as a scholarly reference and as a survey of the field. There are no comparable studies available in one volume and the book will be an indispensable reference for students of Catholic theology at all levels and in all contexts.

1 - What is Catholic Theology?
2 - The Scriptures and their Interpretation
3 - Faith and Reason
4 - Analogy and the Fate of Reason
5 - Creation and Salvation
6 - The Trinity's Loving Act of Creation
7 - Evil, Suffering, and Original Sin
8 - Nicholas E Lombardo OP
9 - The Incarnation
10 - The Holy Spirit
11 - The Church
12 - Our Lady and the Saints
13 - Eschatology
14 - The Sacramental Life
15 - The Liturgy
16 - Eucharist
17 - Holy Orders
18 - Marriage and Sexuality
19 - Mission and Evangelization
20 - Prayer
21 - Catholic Moral Anthropology
22 - Virtue and Catholic Moral Theology
23 - The Natural Law in Catholic Ethics
24 - Grace and Justification
25 - Life and Death
26 - Catholic Social Teaching
27 - Catholic Teaching on Politics and the State
28 - Origen and Augustine
29 - Denys and Later Platonic Traditions
30 - Monastic Theology
31 - Thomas and Scholasticism to 1870
32 - Bonaventure and the Franciscan Tradition
33 - Early Modern Catholic Theology (1500-1700)
34 - Catholic Piety from the Devotio Moderna to the Legacy of Pierre de Bérulle
35 - Catholic Theology and the Enlightenment
36 - The Development of Doctrine: The Tübingen School and John Henry Newman
37 - The Councils of Trent and Vatican I
38 - Thomism 870-1963
39 - Thomism from 1962-2012
40 - Ressourcement and Theologies of Communion
41 - Transcendental Thomisms
42 - Hans Urs von Balthasar
43 - Catholic Personalism up to John Paul II
44 - Sacramental and Liturgical Theology 1900-2000
45 - Biblical Interpretation since Divino afflante spiritu
46 - The Second Vatican Council
47 - Theologies of Liberation
48 - New Ecclesial Movements and Communities
49 - Catholic Feminist Theology
50 - Catholic Theology and Heidegger
51 - The Theology of the Body
52 - Asian Theology
53 - Catholic Theology in Africa
54 - Roman Catholicism and Ecumenism
55 - Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy
56 - Catholic Theology and other Religions

Lewis Ayres is Professore Invitato at the Pontifical University of St Thomas in Rome (the Angelicum), Professor of Catholic and Historical Theology at Durham University, and Professional Fellow at the Australian Catholic University, Melbourne, Australia. His published works include Nicaea and Its Legacy (Oxford University Press, 2004) and Augustine and the Trinity (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Medi Ann Volpe has taught at Emory University in the USA and at Durham University in the UK. She is currently Director of Research at Wesley House, Cambridge. She is the author of Rethinking Christian Identity: Doctrine and Discipleship (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013), as well as articles discussing theology and disability, and other topics in moral theology.