Faith Comes from What Is Heard: An Introduction to Fundamental Theology informs both the heart and mind as it brings together dogmatic and biblical theology, the Thomistic tradition, the teachings of the Fathers of the Church, and the contemporary Magisterium. Drawing heavily upon the works of St. Thomas Aquinas, Bl. John Henry Newman, Joseph Ratzinger, and St. John Paul II, the author examines the foundations of Catholic theology, or Fundamental Theology, “which is theology’s reflection on itself as a discipline, its method, and its foundation in God’s Revelation transmitted to us through Scripture and Tradition.”
Although Faith Comes from What Is Heard is useful for all Catholics who want to understand the foundations of their faith, it is specifically designed to serve as a textbook for courses in Fundamental Theology in seminaries and in graduate and undergraduate programs in theology. It can also serve as a textbook for introductory theology and Scripture courses. The topics covered in Faith Comes from What Is Heard include: Revelation and Faith, Theology, Tradition and the Magisterium, Biblical Hermeneutics, the Historicity of the Gospels, and Biblical Typology
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Dr. Lawrence Feingold is Professor of Theology at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in
St. Louis. He and his wife were Jewish atheists who were baptized together with
their infant son at the age of 29 and were received the following year into the
Catholic Church. He is the author of Touched by Christ: The Sacramental
Economy; The Eucharist: Mystery of Presence, Sacrifice, and Communion; Faith
Comes from What Is Heard: An Introduction to Fundamental Theology; The
Mystery of Israel and the Church; and The Natural Desire to See God According to
St. Thomas Aquinas and His Interpreters.
