Böcker av Neil Ormerod

In this explosive book are powerful and authentic stories of betrayal. These personal accounts of sexual abuse by ministers of religion might not have been listened to in the past. Today, the churches cannot ignore them.""This book raises, in almost every story, the issue of power in human relationships. One of the important reasons for its publication is the repeated failure of the church to face this issue. It is so easy to dismiss claims of abuse between adults if we discount the issue of an imbalance of power. These stories face all clergy, and all those involved in client/professional relationships, with the need to come to terms with their grave responsibility and to develop a healthy and honest relationship with their own sexuality.""--Rev. Dorothy McRae-McMahonAbout the authorsNeil Ormerod is a well-known theologian, author, and Dean of Studies, St. Paul's Seminary, Sydney. Thea Ormerod has a degree in social work and is currently employed as a domestic violence project officer. The Ormerods have four children.

Fundamental theology is the starting point for the various disciplines within Catholic theology and is where solid foundations are established for engagement with historical, systematic, philosophical, and sacramental/liturgical theology. In Foundational Theology, Neil Ormerod and Christiaan Jacobs-Vandegeer ground foundational theology in the normative drive towards meaning, truth, goodness, and beauty, appropriated through religious, moral, intellectual, and psychic conversions. The work maps out the implications of those fundamental orientations to the specific questions and topics of the Catholic theological tradition: God, Trinity, revelation, and an array of doctrinal points of investigation.

Re-Visioning the Church, the outcome of nearly two decades of research, applies a social scientific and historical outlook to the emergence, development, and ongoing mission and ministry of the church. Establishing a critical framework for understanding the structures of the church, the work explores the religious, cultural, and social dimensions of what it means to be the church and what structures and ministries form the foundation of ecclesial life.The heart of the project is a detailed account of the history and development of the church that takes the story from the apostolic band to the Second Vatican Council.

The twentieth century witnessed considerable debate over the question of the possibility of a Christian philosophy. Two major figures of that revival were tienne Gilson and Bernard Lonergan, both of whom read Aquinas in quite different ways on key questions. Nonetheless, this work brings these two authors into conversation. Debates continue in the twenty-first century, but the context has shifted, with Radical Orthodoxy and new atheism standing at opposite ends on the relationship between philosophy and theology. This work will demonstrate how the two thinkers, Gilson and Lonergan, may still contribute to a better understanding of this relationship and so shed light on contemporary issues.