This edited collection offers the first engagement with Werner G. Jeanrond''s theological thinking, spanning from hermeneutics through systematic theology to politics. Available open access and featuring more than twenty renowned scholars with a global reach, this work tackles one of Jeanrond''s key questions: "How can theological thought begin today, in the midst of a confusing plurality of methods?" The problem of the starting point requires a critical and self-critical theological reflection. The academics in this book embark on a journey which takes us through five different fields of study, each of which capture a strand of Jeanrond''s far-reaching body of work. From hermeneutics to politics to moral virtues and spirituality, this volume provides a comprehensive look at the thought of one of the most influential systematic theologians of the twentieth century. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Lund University.

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Ulrich Schmiedel is Senior Lecturer in Theology, Politics and Ethics at the University of Edinburgh, UK. He is also the Co-Director of Edinburgh's Centre for Theology and Public Issues and has written widely on public and political theology. Ola Sigurdson is Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Oslo, Norway. He is also a member of the Royal Swedish Society of Letters, History and Antiquities. He has published more than thirty books in Swedish and English on the intersection of philosophy, theology and the arts.Jayne Svenungsson is Professor of Systematic Theology at Lund University, Sweden. Currently director of the multidisciplinary research program At the End of the World: A Transdisciplinary Approach to the Apocalyptic Imaginary in the Past and Present (endoftheworld.lu.se), she has published extensively on political theology and philosophy of history.

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1. 'If you want to go there, you cannot start here': Introducing the Starting Points of Werner G. Jeanrond's Theological Thinking
   Ulrich Schmiedel (Lund University, Sweded), Ola Sigurdson (University of Oslo, Norway), and Jayne Svenungsson (Lund University, Sweden)

   I. Interpretations

   2. From Where Do You Read?
      Björn Vikström (Åbo Akademi University, Finland)

   3. The Importance of Friedrich Schleiermacher's Hermeneutics
      David Jasper (University of Glasgow, UK)

   4. Exploring Theology, Spirituality, and Praxis: A Journey of Critical and Self-Critical Reflection
      Gerard J. Ryan, S.J. (Loyola University, USA)

   5. Is Home a Starting Point or an End Point? Towards a Hermeneutics of Dwelling
      Ola Sigurdson (University of Oslo, Norway)

   6. On Heimat: Probing the Hope for Home as a Starting Point for Political Theology
      Ulrich Schmiedel (Lund University, Sweden)

   7. Expanding the circle of virtues: Consequences of a Different Theological Starting Point
      Jan-Olav Henriksen (MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway)

   8. Learning to Love in the Anthropocene
      Marius Timmann Mjaaland (University of Oslo, Norway)

   9. Starting at the End: Alterity and Relationality in Christian Eschatology
      James M. Matarazzo, Jr. (Loyola University, USA)

   II. Interventions

   10. Beginning Anew, or Dreaming of 'a Europe to Come'
       Jayne Svenungsson (Lund University, Sweden)

   11. A Metacritique of Love: Theology, Politics and Psychoanalysis
       Isabella Guanzini (Catholic Private University, Austria)

   12. Prayer and Death: Jon Fosse Meets Werner Jeanrond
       Kari Veiteberg (Church of Norway)

   13. 'Institutions Don't Love': Werner Jeanrond and Hannah Arendt's Conflicting Starting Points for a Theory of Collective Life
       Alana Vincent (Umeå University, Sweden)

   14. The Sami and the Church of Sweden: What it Takes to Reach a New Starting Point
       Antje Jackelén (Lund University, Sweden)

   15. Seeking a Starting Point When There is None to be Found: Interreligious Relations after October 7, 2023
       Jakob Wirén (Lund University, Sweden)

   16. The Starting Point which Disappeared: On Salvation, Knowledge, and Hope
       Michael Seewald (University of Münster, Germany)

   17. Reasons (Not) to Hope? An Essay in Critical Elpidology
       Sturla J. Stålsett (MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society, Norway)

   III. Inspirations

   18. In the Beginning Was the Word: Is Theology a Science?
       Björn Larsson (Lund University, Sweden)

   19. Two Women in Conversation: The Starting-Point for the Book of Margery Kempe
       Santha Bhattacharji (Blackfriars Hall, UK)

   20. Transatlantic Impulses: Christianity, Dissidence, and Feminism in the Life and Work of Aasta Hansteen
       Aud V. Tønnessen (University of Oslo, Norway)

   21. Media Philosophy and the Question of the Starting Point
       Allan Burnett (Lund University, Sweden)

   22. Out in Soul: Towards a Hermeneutics of Faith Alongside the Work of Bob Dylan
       Knut Wenzel (Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Germany)

   23. 'Hear, O Israel!': Rehearing the Shema
       Brian Klug (Campion Hall, UK)

   24. Everything Starts with Listening: Theological Epistemology and Dialogical Life Orientation
       Claudia Welz (Aarhus University, Denmark)