Desiderata

List of Desiderata for Future Versions

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Complete New Chapters

• Mary and Marianists
• Global Christianity
• Racial theory and racial justice from a theological perspective

New Sections

• Climate Change, Eco-Theology, and Eco-Feminism
• Polarization and Synodality
• Black Liberation Theology along with existing sections on Latin American and Women's Liberation
• What is the difference between theology and apologetics?

New Paragraphs

• 6.3.2 For the future: somewhere in this section it might be good to add a paragraph and/or a picture of Dorothy Day or the Catholic Worker Movement. I find that undergrads are usually interested—and they can visit a Catholic Worker house today if they want. It would add a lay and female dimension to this section.

Other ideas

• Book cover
• Consider a "teacher edition" with footnotes. For example, what if a student asks, "What is the textbook referring to when it says the earliest written evidence of Israel is from 1250 BCE?" More detail when the textbook says "some scholars..." Answer key to exercises... What is the more complex argument about animal sacrifice...