Claiming God: Essays in Honor of Marilyn McCord Adams
Ebook
Marilyn McCord Adams (1943-2017) was a world-renowned philosopher, a theologian who forever changed conversations about God and evil, a compelling preacher, and a fierce advocate for the full belonging of LGBTQ+ people, especially in churches. Over the course of her career, she mentored philosophers, theologians, pastors, and activists. In this book, authors from each of these fields engage and expand upon McCord Adams's work. Chapters address theodicy and the Holocaust, the nature and limits of human free will, sexual violence, Trinitarian relations, beatific vision, friendship, climate change, and how to protest heterosexism with truth, humor, and cookies. Examples of McCord Adams's revised Episcopal liturgies--previously unpublished--are used to affirm the expansive love of God. Accessible and varied, these essays attest to McCord Adams's vocational integration, as she claimed and proclaimed God's goodness in her different professional roles.
“This is a wonderful book and a must-read for anyone interested in theology or the philosophy of religion. Engaging with and building on the work of Marilyn McCord Adams, one of the great contemporary theologians and historians of philosophy, it explores fundamental issues about God, love, evil, and community in both contemporary and historical settings. It is a little library in itself! Tolle et lege!”
—Calvin Normore, University of California, Los Angeles
“It’s hard to imagine a better set of contributors for a volume in honor of a more luminous thinker and teacher than Marilyn McCord Adams. These essays combine, as she did, philosophical acumen with a pastoral sensibility that knows that the intellectual life is an end in itself and must also be oriented toward the needs of bodies that think, desire, love, and die.”
—Linn Marie Tonstad, Yale Divinity School
“Marilyn McCord Adams was one of the most innovative, courageous, and influential philosophical theologians of the past half century. This collection of work by her students, friends, and colleagues is a fitting tribute to McCord Adams’s monumental contributions on topics ranging from the intricacies of medieval philosophy to the challenges posed by horrendous evils to our sense of life’s meaning. Philosophers, theologians, and anyone seeking to understand the existential challenges raised by suffering will want to read this book.”
—Andrew Chignell, Princeton University
- Title: Claiming God: Essays in Honor of Marilyn McCord Adams
- Authors: Christine Helmer, Shannon Craigo-Snell
- Publisher: Pickwick Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666793529, 9781666793512, 9781666735888, 1666793523, 1666793515, 1666735884
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666793529
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-12-03T21:41:17Z
Christine Helmer is Peter B. Ritzma Professor of Humanities at Northwestern University. She is the author of How Luther Became the Reformer (2019).
Shannon Craigo-Snell is professor of theology at Louisville Theological Presbyterian Seminary and an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA). She is the author of The Empty Church: Theater, Theology, and Bodily Hope (2014).