Douglas John Hall: Collected Readings

David B. Lott

Jul 2013 · Fortress Press

About this ebook

Hall's work takes the measure of Christian belief and doctrine explicitly in light of North American cultural and historical experience. Hall's theological insights challenge churches to embrace change and develop genuine community, uncompromised theology, and honest engagement with the larger culture. To a failed culture and a struggling church Hall shows the radical implications of a theology of the cross for the shape and practice of church, preaching, ministry, ethics, and eschatology.

About the author

David B. Lott has been an academic religious book editor for over twenty-five years, working with Fortress Press, Alban Institute, and the World Council of Churches. The longtime editor of the New Proclamation series, his edited volumes include Conflict Management in Congregations and Sallie McFague: Collected Readings. He lives in Washington, DC.

Douglas John Hall is emeritus professor of theology at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. Among the most widely read theologians in North America, Hall has written many popular and acclaimed works, including Lighten Our Darkness (1976), God and Human Suffering (1987), and Why Christian? (1998), as well as a full-scale trilogy in systematic theology: Thinking the Faith (1991), Professing the Faith (1996), and Confessing the Faith (1998), all from Fortress Press.