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Aiming to present an accessible discussion of theology in relation to issues of Biblical authority, this text offers an account of inspiration that focuses on the impact of the Biblical text upon the reader.

Mary is often seen as having a very small part to play in the drama of salvation and creation. Boss argues that Christian theology should conceive of the created order as sacred in the highest degree, and that this understanding is already implicit in traditions of Marian doctrine and devotion.

Keith Pecklers aims to give theologians, liturgists, priests and laity of all denominations a new sense of the theology of liturgy. Grounded in the theology of the Mystical Body of Christ, the author calls for full and active liturgical participation necessarily including social responsibility.

Donna Orsuto examines the Hebrew Scriptures and shows how the concept of holiness is intimately intertwined with the idea of God, who is "Wholly Other" and transcendent, and yet paradoxically calls us into intimacy. She offers a contemporary Christian understanding of holiness.

This theological investigation explores the significance of woman in the Christian tradition from various perspectives. It is written as an open-ended quest for meaning in the form of a "theopoetics" rather than as a systematically developed argument.

Hugh Connolly investigates the realities of sin through reflecting on literary and biblical texts. Physical evil, law and morality, alienation and existence, power and money, spiritual love and failure are scrutinized in a relational understanding of sin and its forgiveness.