"Each section of this book takes a major religious thinker and asks how he or she points us in the direction of Christian faith. My hope is to capture their vision in today's language and in a non-academic way. In most chapters I create an imaginary monologue: what would this 'giant' say to us today? Here I try to speak to many honest friends who tell me that God is not so much incredible as unreal - simply off their map."
In Faith Maps an imaginative theologian, with a feeling for today's spiritual sensibility, 'translates' the voices of leading thinkers into a series of reflections on faith in contemporary culture. The result is an introduction to theology for students and general readers, as well as an attractive set of variations on themes familiar to specialists.
- John Henry Newman
- Maurice Blondel
- Karl Rahner
- Hans Urs Von Balthasar
- Bernard Lonergan
- Flannery O'Connor
- Dorothee Soelle
- Charles Taylor
- Pierangelo Sequeri
- Benedict XVI
About the author:
Michael Paul Gallagher is an Irish Jesuit priest an at present Professor of Fundamental Theology at the Gregorian University, Rome, where until September 2008 he was Dean of the Faculty of Theology. He previously taught modern literature for almost 20 years at UCD and is the author of nine books of pastoral and spiritual theology including Clashing Symbols and Faith Maps |