Thesis by Jessica J Schroeder
This study assesses the present themes and gaps in the theology of food literature (TFL) as well ... more This study assesses the present themes and gaps in the theology of food literature (TFL) as well as where there is fertile ground for the development of an explicit theology of joy. This task is accomplished by examining the most prominent themes in the current body of TFL as well as placing these works alongside Jürgen Moltmann's theology of joy to display the value of strengthening the TFL with a more fully developed theology of joy.
Conference Presentations by Jessica J Schroeder
This paper places Jürgen Moltmann’s theology of joy into conversation with the recent body of lit... more This paper places Jürgen Moltmann’s theology of joy into conversation with the recent body of literature written on theology of food in order to display how they strengthen and affirm one another through shared themes concerning joy: particularly joy as it is related to God’s good gifts in creation. Both bodies of work consider the groundlessness of God’s creation (i.e., its “unnecessariness”) as well as the lavishness of creation given—and to be received—as gift. Moltmann and the TFL writers agree that living amidst and interacting with such gift is an occasion for joy, and consider what this looks like in the lived Christian life.
Book Reviews by Jessica J Schroeder
Evangelical Quarterly, 2021
Book Review of Art and Faith: A Theology of Making by Makoto Fujimura, published by Evangelical Q... more Book Review of Art and Faith: A Theology of Making by Makoto Fujimura, published by Evangelical Quarterly
Papers by Jessica J Schroeder
Evangelical Quarterly
While Michael Polanyi’s epistemology is fruitful for considering beauty’s epistemological signifi... more While Michael Polanyi’s epistemology is fruitful for considering beauty’s epistemological significance, this article shows that Polanyi’s epistemology lacks explicit development of an important aspect of beauty’s contribution to knowledge formation—as mediator. The treatment unfolds by first assessing how Polanyi does treat beauty, and second by establishing the grounds for beauty to serve as a mediator, as well as its fittingness within a Polanyian epistemology. The article considers an expansion of Polanyi’s epistemology to further and more clearly elucidate beauty as mediator of knowledge. Concluding remarks consider how beauty as mediator of knowledge opens the door to pursuit of questions regarding beauty’s role in theological epistemology—i.e., in mediating knowledge of God specifically.
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Thesis by Jessica J Schroeder
Conference Presentations by Jessica J Schroeder
Book Reviews by Jessica J Schroeder
Papers by Jessica J Schroeder