Bridging Scripture and Moral Theology: Essays in Dialogue with Yiu Sing Lcs Chan, S.J.

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This book comprises essays honoring the life and work of Yiu Sing Lcs Chan, S.J., who died unexpectedly on May 19, 2015, at the end of his first year as a member of the faculty in the Department of Theology at Marquette University. The editors intend to commemorate Chans brief but productive career by furthering the critical conversations he started. The essays included thus touch on aspects of the brilliant young Jesuits wide-ranging work in the fields of scriptural research, moral theology, and systematic theology. Each essay either engages Chans scholarship directly or seeks to advance his design to bridge the disciplinary gaps between scriptural research and constructive theology. This book includes contributions by noted Roman Catholic theologians James F. Keenan, S.J., Bryan N. Massingale, and John R. Donohue, S.J., as well as two original poems by his Marquette colleagues dedicated to Lcs.

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Despite this book's unlikely readership outside of academia, it will serve as an important reference work for future scholars working at the intersection of Scripture and moral theology as well as comparative theological ethics. The book is also a testament to the kind of positive effect one can have on a field of study even over such a very short lifetime.

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Michael B. Cover is assistant professor of Judaism and Christianity in antiquity at Marquette University. John Thiede, S.J., is assistant professor in the Department of Theology at Marquette University and author of Remembering Oscar Romero and the Martyrs of El Salvador: A Cloud of Witnesses. Joshua Ezra Burns is associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Theology at Marquette University and author of The Christian Schism in Jewish History and Jewish Memory.