Theology without Borders

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 Ellacuría, 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.

[Theology without Borders] is a great read. Academics might use it to broaden their own syllabi, students will be introduced to areas that are likely unfamiliar to them. The random curious reader will have no trouble enjoying the contents.

• Foreword, by Thomas BanchoffIntroduction: Celebration and a MemorialLeo D. LefeburePart I: World Christianity and Migration1. Peter C. Phan and the Reconstruction of World ChristianityDale T. Irvin2. Being Church among Asians: Perspective and Insights of the Asian Theology of the FABCAnh Q. Tran, SJ3. Between “Memory and Imagination”: Reimagining World Christianity without BordersJonathan Y. Tan4. Christian Resilience and Vulnerable MigrantsGemma Tulud Cruz5. Wives Submitting to Husbands: Domestic Violence, Women, and the Christian FaithCristina Lledo GomezPart II: Christian Identity and Religious Pluralism6. Dialogue and Reconciliation in the Renaissance and in Vatican IIJohn W. O’Malley, SJ7. Interfaith Christology? Some Dogmatic ProlegomenaWilliam P. Loewe8. Interreligious Marriage as a Way of Being Religious InterreligiouslyChester Gillis9. Peter Phan and Ecclesiology Beyond BordersBrian P. Flanagan10. Dialogue in a Multireligious and Political Ecosystem: Understanding Catholic Relations with Other Religions in Mainland ChinaStephanie M. WongPart III: Eschatology11. Migration and Eschatology in the Epistle to the Hebrews Alan C. Mitchell12. Waiting Outside Time? The Intermediate StateBrian M. Doyle13. Eschatology: Peter Phan and Christian Expansivism Keith WardPart IV: The Legacy of Peter C. Phan14. Decentralizing Theology: The Second Vatican Council and Peter PhanDebora Tonelli15. Peter Phan and the Congregation for the Doctrine of the FaithCharles E. Curran16. Being Honestly Pluralistically ReligiousJohn Borelli17. Counting the Uncountable: The Contributions of Peter C. PhanLeo D. LefebureEpilogue, by Peter C. PhanAppendix: Curriculum Vitae of Peter C. PhanContributors