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This book comprises essays honoring the life and work of Yiu Sing Lúcás Chan, S.J., who died unexpectedly on May 19, 2015, at the end of his first year as a member of the faculty in the Department of Theology at Marquette University. The editors intend to commemorate Chan’s brief but productive career by furthering the critical conversations he started. The essays included thus touch on aspects of the brilliant young Jesuit’s wide-ranging work in the fields of scriptural research, moral theology, and systematic theology. Each essay either engages Chan’s scholarship directly or seeks to advance his design to bridge the disciplinary gaps between scriptural research and constructive theology. This book includes contributions by noted Roman Catholic theologians James F. Keenan, S.J., Bryan N. Massingale, and John R. Donohue, S.J., as well as two original poems by his Marquette colleagues dedicated to Lúcás.

Table of Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments


Prelude


Where is Lúcás?

Irfan Omar


Part One: Cross Cultural, Systematic, and Ethical Dialogues


1. Hospitality: A Timely, Biblical Virtue from the Book of Ruth to Today
James F. Keenan, S.J.

2. The Welcome Table: The Table Fellowship of Jesus and Its Implications for Racial Justice, Bryan N. Massingale

3. An Ode to My Brother Lúcás Chan, S.J.: A Latin American Response to His Ethical Approach

John S. Thiede, S.J.

4. The Significance of Lúcás Chan Cross-Cultural Approach to Biblical Ethics to African Reading of the Bible

Joseph Ogbonnaya

5. Solidarity with the Suffering and the Identity of the Theologian

George E. Griener, S.J.

6. Ignatian Contemplation of Scripture and the Communal Schooling of Virtue

Danielle Nussberger

7. Speaking Truth in Mercy: Compassion and the Moral Meanings of the Bible

Sean Larsen

8. The Imperative Connection between Scripture and Ethics in a Catholic Context

Conor M. Kelly


Part Two: Scriptural Dialogues


9. Torah and Moral Law: a Paradigmatic Case of the Relationship between Bible and Theological Ethics

Antonio Autiero

10. Taking the Text Seriously: Learning from Daniel 3’s Appropriation of the Decalogue

Paul Cizek

11. “Blessed are the Mourners”: Lamentation and the Path to Justice

John R. Donahue, S.J.

12. “How Long O Lord”: Practices of Lamentation and the Restoration of Political Agency

Kyle Lambelet

13. Just Reading or a Just Reading: Biblical Stories of Subaltern Virtue

Gina Hens-Piazza

14. Model Hospitality: Abraham, Boaz, and the Search for Biblical Exemplars.

Michael B. Cover

15. John’s Gospel and the Ethics of Freedom and Love
Alexandre A. Martins


Postlude


Strings and Wind

Michael B. Cover


Index

About the Contributors

Product details

Published 02 Jul 2019
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 268
ISBN 9781498567763
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 3 b/w illustrations;
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Michael B. Cover

Anthology Editor

John Thiede

Anthology Editor

Joshua Ezra Burns

Contributor

Irfan A. Omar

Contributor

Antonio Autiero

Contributor

Paul Cizek

Contributor

John R. Donahue

Contributor

James F. Keenan

Contributor

Conor M. Kelly

Contributor

Kyle Lambelet

Contributor

Sean Larsen

Contributor

John Thiede

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