The God of Love and Human Dignity: Festschrift for George Newlands »

The God of Love and Human Dignity presents an answer to some of the most pressing questions in modern Christian theology, in this fascinating volume of essays in honour of Scotland's foremost liberal theologian, George Newlands. The contributions explore the place of human rights in theology, and confront challenges to God's love in a world of injustice. The result is a fruitful display of suggestions for the ways in which human dignity may be furthered, not only through appropriate Christian response but also through the engagement of theology with culture and the arts.

About the Author:
Paul Middleton is Lecturer in New Testament Studies and Assistant Director of Open Learning Theology at the University of Wales, Lampeter

List of Contributors     vii
Abbreviations     ix
George Newlands: An Appreciation   Paul Middleton     1
A Long Tradition of Engagement: A Tribute to Trinity College, Glasgow, on its 150th Anniversary   Iain Torrance     5
The Dignity of Creatures   John Webster     19
The Dignity of 'I and Me'   Hendrik M. Vroom     35
Between God's Mercy and God's Law: Human Dignity in Islam   Mona Siddiqui     51
Universal Human Rights and Religious Particularity   Richard Amesbury     65
Building Effective Bridges to Culture: God and Redemption in the Work of Richard Wagner   J. Wentzel van Huyssteen     85
Theology and Laughter   David Fergusson     107
Asceticism as a Way of Love   David Jasper     117
Shortcuts to Certainty? Two Temptations in Theological Ethics   Duncan B. Forrester     127
Not the Marrying Kind: Notes on an Ecclesial Comedy   Gerard Loughlin     139
Evil and the God of Love   Brian Hebblethwaite     155
The Tested Faith and the God of Love: The Eschatological Proviso in the Christian Conception of God   Walter Sparn     165
Theological Liberals: Rethinking the Past, Present andFuture   Ian Markham     183
Liberal Theology and the God of Love   Keith Ward     191
Select Subject Index     203
Index of Names     205