The Nature of Theology

*Catholic Media Association Award Winner*   "A readable, serious, and compact Summa that puts you in Roger Haight's renowned classroom, condensing the insights from a remarkably creative, dynamic theological career."--Tom Beaudoin, Fordham University "A clear, lucid, and very accessible introduction to thinking theologically in response to current issues. The Nature of Theology will be widely used as an introductory text in theology courses because it demonstrates in content and organization how theological thinking can respond in holistic and transformative ways to the challenges of skepticism, relativism, and ontic pessimism."--Susan Abraham, Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean of Faculty, Pacific School of Religion "The Nature of Theology offers rich resources for doing and teaching theology in an era shaped by scientific understandings of reality, characterized by religious and cultural pluralism, and marred by the reality of unspeakable suffering. At the level of both met