Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? Wisdom in the

What is wisdom - and where is it to be found? A number of experts in a wide range of theological and related disciplines have come together to explore this question.

Acknowledgements

ix

Contributors

xi

Introduction

xvii

Part I: Wisdom in Israel and the Church

1. Solomon and Job: Divine Wisdom in Human Life

3

(16)

R.W.L. Moberly

2. Wisdom in the Old Testament

19

(12)

Stuart Weeks

3. Sirach and Wisdom's Dwelling Place

31

(16)

C.T.R. Hayward

4. Wisdom and Holiness at Qumran: Strategies for Dealing with Sin in the Community Rule

47

(14)

Loren T. Stuckenbruck

5. 'Sweet Science Reigns': Divine and Human Wisdom in the Apocalyptic Tradition

61

(14)

Christopher Rowland

6. Jesus: Teacher of Wisdom or Wisdom Incarnate?

75

(18)

James D.G. Dunn

7. Gospel Wisdom

93

(18)

Stephen C. Barton

8. Wisdom According to Paul

111

(14)

Richard B. Hays

9. Augustine, Wisdom and Classical Culture

125

(14)

Carol Harrison

10. Wisdom Within or Without? Denys the Carthusian and the Predicament of Late Medieval Mysticism

139

(16)

Denys Turner

11. What has Athens to do with Jerusalem? Newman, Wisdom and the Idea of a University

155

(14)

Sheridan Gilley

12. Wisdom and the Russians: The Sophiology of Fr Sergei Bulgakov

169

(16)

Andrew Louth

Part II: Wisdom in Contemporary Philosophy, Theology and Ethics

13. Intelligence, Wisdom and Folly

185

(10)

Mary Midgley

14. Seeking Wisdom: Moral Wisdom or Ethical Expertise?

195

(16)

Brenda Almond

15. The Wisdom of the Social Sciences: The Self, Society arid Popular Culture in a Postmodern Age

211

(20)

Bernice Martin

16. The Grace of God and Earthly Wisdom

231

(18)

Daniel W. Hardy

17. Christ, the Wisdom of God: A Study in Divine and Human Action

249

(14)

Colin Gunton

18. Sophia or Gnosis? Christianity and New Age Spirituality

263

(16)

Linda Woodhead

19. Wisdom and Natural Law: A Christian Feminist Enquiry

279

(16)

Susan F. Parsons

20. Wisdom as the End of Morality

295

(12)

Robert Song

21. Does Ethical Wisdom Lie in Worship?

307

(14)

Alan Suggate

22. Learning Moral and Spiritual Wisdom

321

(14)

Jeff Astley

23. Disturbing the Wise? Or the Wisdom of the Disturbed? Liberating Truth and Theological Education

335

(14)

Mary Grey

24. 'Crying Out for Discernment': Premodern Marriage in Postmodern Times

349

(14)

Adrian Thatcher

25. Wisdom and Passion: Wittgenstein, Kierkegaard, and Religious Belief

363

(18)

Colin Crowder

Suggestions for Further Reading

381

(2)

Index of Modern Authors

383

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Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? Wisdom in the Bible, the Church and the Contemporary World

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