Theology rests on three assertions: faith, revelation, and scripture. Integrated with these assertions are the symbolic nature and structure of religious language and theological methods. Continual reinterpretations of theology are necessary to maintain the faithfulness of theological statements.
The time has come, however, argues Juan Luis Segundo, to "theologize" about the theology of liberation itself: to examine its methodology; to weigh critically many of its premises; to test constantly its claim to have the scriptures as its font.
In this compact biblical theology Father Sabourin develops the Biblical themes which are common to both Testaments, assuring their unity regarding the notion of God: God's covenant and promise, and the people of God. He points up the Christological prefigurement of the Old Testament in the light of the New, as well as the Christward movement of salvation history.
In the changing situations of history Christians are called upon to give a public account of the hope that is them. In Faith and the Future noted theologian Walter Kasper addresses himself to just such an account for the 1980s, a decade characterized not by the utopian ideas of evolutionary and revolutionary progress of the sixties and early seventies but by an increasing fear of the future - fear, despair, and loss of hope.
A selection of writings by early religious reformer Martin Luther, including expository and polemical treatises, Biblical commentaries, sermons, and theses covering the major sujects on which Luther wrote.
