The Creativity of God
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Publication date:
- 10 December 2009
- 05 August 2004
- ISBN:
- 9780511616921
- 9780521831178
- 9780521538459
- Dimensions:
- (228 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.479kg, 224 Pages
- Dimensions:
- (228 x 152 mm)
- Weight & Pages:
- 0.31kg, 224 Pages
- Subjects:
- Philosophy: General Interest, Religion, Philosophy, Theology
- Series:
- Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine (12)
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- Philosophy: General Interest, Religion, Philosophy, Theology
- Series:
- Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine (12)
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Book description
We have, as a theological community, generally lost a language in which to speak of the created-ness of the world. As a consequence, our discourses of reason cannot bridge the way we know God and the way we know the world. Therefore, argues Oliver Davies, a primary task of contemporary theology is the regeneration of a Christian account of the world as sacramental, leading to the formation of a Christian conception of reason and a new Christocentric understanding of the real. Both the Johannine tradition of creation through the Word and a Eucharistic semiotics of Christ as the embodied, sacrificial and creative speech of God serve the project of a repairal of Christian cosmology. The world itself is viewed as a creative text authored by God, of which we as interpreters are an integral part. This is a wide-ranging and convincing book that makes an important contribution to modern theology.
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"Davies produces a work that is at once radical and very traditional for a Western theology--one that is well worth reading." James W. Farwell, The General Theological Seminary
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