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Christian Theology in the Pluralistic World: A Global Introduction is unavailable, but you can change that!

Kärkkäinen’s acclaimed five-volume constructive theology abridged in one accessible volume. Providing a new and unique way of doing theology in our pluralistic world, Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen presents historic Christian doctrines in relation to the natural sciences and four other living faiths—Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism. This textbook covers all systematic topics along with a host of...

to defy the limits of rationality, including miracles; indeed, Jesus’s resurrection from the dead, as a historical fact, became a cornerstone of his critical-rational approach to doing theology. Call it a sort of postcritical stance. Alongside great theologians of the past, including Thomas Aquinas, Pannenberg argued that the “object” of theology is God, but because God is the Creator of all, theologians also study everything in relation to God. Hence, theology’s domain is wide and inclusive, not
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