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Theology

A guide to finding resources in theology. Guides to specific resources and strategies for individual classes. Taking class online? Limit database searches to "full-text" and Library catalog searches to "Ebooks."

God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation. 2 Corinthians 5:19

Preference is for theological language

see these terms for various aspects of reconciliation

  • reconciliation
  • atonement
  • justification
  • grace
  • redemption
  • penance
  • forgiveness
  • soteriology
  • sacraments
  • justice
  • healing

Authors for the Library Catalog

Milbank, John

John Paul, II

Tutu, Desmond

Teilhard de Chardin, Pierre

Schillebeeckx, Edward

Hollenbach, David

Subjects for the Library Catalog

Reconciliation AND Religious aspects

Justification (doctrine and Christian theology)

Forgiveness

Penance

Church AND Social problems

(Islam OR Judaism) AND Social problems

Social justice AND Religious aspects

Peace AND Religious aspects

Human rights AND Religious aspects (includes Islam and Judaism)

Redemption

Human rights AND Moral and ethical aspects

Environment AND Religious aspects (see also: Ecotheology)

Globalization AND Religious aspects

Islam AND Human rights

Suggestions for searching in ATLA

     combine your concept(s) with place, time period, a specific writer, particular groups, etc

Examples:

soteriology AND (Rahner OR Balthasar OR Biel)

(Africa* OR Rwanda OR Sudan) AND (reconciliation OR forgiveness)

(environment* OR ecolog* OR globalization) AND (healing OR reconciliation)

(justification OR grace OR atonement) AND (Luther OR Reformation OR Calvin)

(reconciliation OR penance OR forgiveness) AND (John Paul II OR Benedict XVI)

(forgiveness OR reconciliation) AND (Islam OR Muslim*)

Additional strategies:

  1. Search on scripture passages: Romans 5:1-11; Galatians 5; 2 Corinthians 5       
  2. Search for writings by religious figures or scholars write about reconciliation, etc.
  3. Limit to publications types, i.e. article, book, essay, etc.
  4. Limit search by language

Schweiker, William. The Blackwell Companion to Religious Ethics. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
(also in print: BJ1251 .B54 2004 Fl. 2)

Hauerwas, Stanley, and Samuel Wells. The Blackwell Companion to Christian Ethics. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub, 2006.
(also in print BJ 1251 .B54 2004 Fl. 2)

Coulter, Michael L, Richard S Myers, and Joseph A Varacalli, eds. Encyclopedia of Catholic
Social Thought, Social Science and Social Policy. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2007.
BX1753 .E595 vols.1-2 Reference Fl.1

sources about Religious ethics

sources about Catholic Social Thought

sources about Moral theology

Subjects: Philosophy, Theology

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