A comprehensive series of essays exploring Peter C. Phan's groundbreaking work to widen Christian theology beyond the Western world Peter C. Phan's wide-ranging contributions to theology and his pioneering work on religious pluralism, migration, and Christian identity have made a global impact on the field. The essays in Theology without Borders offer a variety of perspectives across Phan's fundamental work in eschatology, world christianity, interreligious dialogue, and much more. Together, these essays offer a comprehensive assessment of Phan's groundbreaking work across a range of theological fields. Included in the conversation are discussions of world christianity and migration, Christian identity and religious pluralism, Christian theology in Asia, Asian American theology, eschatology, and Phan's lasting legacy. Theology without Borders provides a welcome overview for anyone interested in the career of Peter C. Phan, his body of work, and its influence.
Leo D. Lefebure holds the Matteo Ricci, SJ, Chair of Theology at Georgetown University. He is the author of the award-winning Transforming Interreligious Relations: Catholic Responses to Religious Pluralism in the United States. His other award-winning books include Revelation, the Religions, and Violence; True and Holy: Christian Scripture and Other Religions; and The Path of Wisdom: A Christian Commentary on the Dhammapada, coauthored with Peter Feldmeier. Lefebure is the president of the Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies, a research fellow of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a trustee emeritus of the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions. Peter C. Phan teaches at Georgetown University, where he currently holds the Ignacio Ellacuria, SJ, Chair of Catholic Social Thought. He has earned three doctorates and received four honorary doctorates. He is the first non-Anglo to be elected president of the Catholic Theological Society of America and of the American Theological Society. In 2020 he was given the John Courtney Murray Award, the highest honor of the Catholic Theological Society of America, in recognition for outstanding and distinguished achievement in theology. He is the author or editor of more than thirty-five books. His work has been translated into twelve languages.
Foreword, by Thomas Banchoff Introduction: Celebration and a Memorial Leo D. Lefebure Part I: World Christianity and Migration 1. Peter C. Phan and the Reconstruction of World Christianity Dale T. Irvin 2. Being Church among Asians: Perspective and Insights of the Asian Theology of the FABC Anh Q. Tran, SJ 3. Between "Memory and Imagination": Reimagining World Christianity without Borders Jonathan Y. Tan 4. Christian Resilience and Vulnerable Migrants Gemma Tulud Cruz 5. Wives Submitting to Husbands: Domestic Violence, Women, and the Christian Faith Cristina Lledo Gomez Part II: Christian Identity and Religious Pluralism 6. Dialogue and Reconciliation in the Renaissance and in Vatican II John W. O'Malley, SJ 7. Interfaith Christology? Some Dogmatic Prolegomena William P. Loewe 8. Interreligious Marriage as a Way of Being Religious Interreligiously Chester Gillis 9. Peter Phan and Ecclesiology Beyond Borders Brian P. Flanagan 10. Dialogue in a Multireligious and Political Ecosystem: Understanding Catholic Relations with Other Religions in Mainland China Stephanie M. Wong Part III: Eschatology 11. Migration and Eschatology in the Epistle to the Hebrews Alan C. Mitchell 12. Waiting Outside Time? The Intermediate State Brian M. Doyle 13. Eschatology: Peter Phan and Christian Expansivism Keith Ward Part IV: The Legacy of Peter C. Phan 14. Decentralizing Theology: The Second Vatican Council and Peter Phan Debora Tonelli 15. Peter Phan and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Charles E. Curran 16. Being Honestly Pluralistically Religious John Borelli 17. Counting the Uncountable: The Contributions of Peter C. Phan Leo D. Lefebure Epilogue, by Peter C. Phan Appendix: Curriculum Vitae of Peter C. Phan Contributors
