"Farrow offers a panoramic view of the crisis points in theology, combined with unpicking a number of long-standing theological knots. He is at home in the worlds of both Protestant and Catholic theology, and he brings the two together with recommendations for an irenic concordat. Farrow's style is engaging; the essays could be appreciated for their literary qualities alone, quite apart from the theological insights they contain."  
\--__Tracey Rowland__, John Paul II Chair of Theology, University of Notre Dame Australia  
  
"This book will challenge Catholics and Protestants alike, for Farrow critically dissects some of the major issues that have divided and harassed them for five centuries. His knowledge of both traditions along with some of their major thinkers is impressive. For Farrow, being true to Scripture and right reason is essential to theology. Anyone serious about negotiating the philosophical and doctrinal complexities of ecumenical theology on those terms will find in Farrow a veteran envoy."  
\--__Thomas G. Weinandy, OFMCap__  
  
"All of the qualities we have come to expect of Farrow's thought--precision, incisiveness, and mastery--are on full display in this series of compelling essays. Writing with the verve and vigor that are his hallmarks, Farrow mines and unhesitatingly challenges the best of the theological tradition--Irenaeus, Anselm, Aquinas, Luther, and Barth--shedding fresh light on crucial and seemingly intractable issues. Importantly, he accomplishes this with ecumenical concerns always in sight. Theological Negotiations is systematic theology at its finest."  
\--__Thomas G. Guarino__, Seton Hall University; cochairman, Evangelicals and Catholics Together  
  
"Farrow's theology is robust and, like the gospel, ever ancient and yet ever new. It is also uncompromisingly biblical, catholic, and ecumenical. Farrow engages the dialectic of nature and grace as he surveys a wide range of fields: soteriology, sacraments, anthropology, and ecclesiology, among others. It is clear that what he calls the 'Pax Thomistica' is secure for the next generation and beyond. This is an important book."  
\--__Scott Hahn__, Franciscan University of Steubenville  
  
"Farrow is profoundly Catholic, while ecumenically sensitive. He is deeply learned and utterly challenging in these essays on soteriology and anthropology. He refuses to accept easy answers for anything. He draws from the tradition to think through matters most rigorously and originally."  
\--__Gavin D'Costa__, University of Bristol

__Douglas Farrow__ (PhD, King's College London) is professor of theology and Christian thought at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. He is also the project director for Pluralism, Religion, and Public Policy at McGill and has authored several books, including Ascension and Ecclesia, Ascension Theology, and Desiring a Better Country.

In Theological Negotiations, leading theologian Douglas Farrow tackles some of his discipline's perennial challenges, including the relation between nature and grace, philosophy and theology, autonomy and freedom, justification and sanctification, Gentile and Jew, and Christ's offering and ours.  
  
Controversial issues from supersessionism to transubstantiation to the perfection and final end of man are approached in new and innovative ways, showing what constructive theology looks like when it is determined to think eschatologically about the relations in question.  
  
The innovation, however, is never at the expense of biblical and creedal parameters or of patient engagement with the Christian tradition and its formative thinkers. Along the way, Farrow invites readers to renegotiate, or at least to rethink, some key Catholic/Protestant differences in soteriology as well as some ill-advised compromises with contemporary autonomy-based anthropology.

One of today's leading theologians tackles some of the most significant themes in contemporary theology. Douglas Farrow explores key theological loci such as nature and grace and justification and sanctification; introduces theological giants such as Anselm, Aquinas, Luther, and Barth; and examines contemporary questions about sacraments and unity. Throughout his explorations, Farrow invites readers to consider how to negotiate controversy in Christian theology, especially between Catholics and Protestants, arguing that theology does its best work at the intersection of topics in dispute.

One of today's leading theologians tackles some of the most significant themes in contemporary theology in light of the relationship between nature and grace.

__Contents__ 1. Theology and Philosophy: Recovering the Pax Thomistica  
2. Thinking with Aquinas about Nature and Grace  
3. Thinking with Luther about Justification and Sanctification  
4. Satisfaction and Punishment: Reckoning with Anselm  
5. Whose Offering? Doxological Pelagianism as an Ecumenical Problem  
6. Transubstantiation: Sic transit mundus ad gloriam  
7. Autonomy: Sic transit anima ad infernum  
8. For the Jew First: Reaffirming the Pax Paulinica  
9. The Gift of Fear: A Meditation on Hebrews  
Indexes

Farrow, Douglas

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Preface

Abbreviations

1. Theology and Philosophy

2. Thinking with Aquinas about Nature and Grace

3. Thinking with Luther about Justification and Sanctification

4. Satisfaction and Punishment

5. Whose Offering?

6. Transubstantiation

7. Autonomy

8. For the Jew First

9. The Gift of Fear

Index

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