A Theology of Divine Vulnerability
The Silence that Gives Light
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2024
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-5581-1 (ISBN)
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-6669-5581-1 (ISBN)
This book offers a nuanced understanding of God’s power and draws on a rich plurality of voices to describe God as much more loving than wrathful, as persuasive rather than coercive, as more passible than impassible, and offers three claims for confidence in the idea of God.
A Theology of Divine Vulnerability: The Silence that Gives Light uses three claims for confidence in the idea of God. The first is that God is responsible in some quite fundamental way for the existence of the universe—for the fact that there is anything at all. The second is that God’s own existence, and essential goodness, are not vitiated by the presence of evil in the world. And the third is that God knows we are here—that God loves the creation and shares fully, somehow, in the joys and especially in the pains of transient life. Peter Hooton considers these claims on the whole sympathetically. He prefers—to traditional Christian views of God’s omnipotence—a more nuanced understanding of God’s power and draws on a rich plurality of voices to describe God as much more loving than wrathful, as persuasive rather than coercive, as more passible than impassible, and the Christian’s relationship with God as essentially a compassionate participation in the reality signified by the crucified and risen Christ.
A Theology of Divine Vulnerability: The Silence that Gives Light uses three claims for confidence in the idea of God. The first is that God is responsible in some quite fundamental way for the existence of the universe—for the fact that there is anything at all. The second is that God’s own existence, and essential goodness, are not vitiated by the presence of evil in the world. And the third is that God knows we are here—that God loves the creation and shares fully, somehow, in the joys and especially in the pains of transient life. Peter Hooton considers these claims on the whole sympathetically. He prefers—to traditional Christian views of God’s omnipotence—a more nuanced understanding of God’s power and draws on a rich plurality of voices to describe God as much more loving than wrathful, as persuasive rather than coercive, as more passible than impassible, and the Christian’s relationship with God as essentially a compassionate participation in the reality signified by the crucified and risen Christ.
Peter Hooton is adjunct research fellow in public theology at the Australian Centre for Christianity and Culture on Charles Sturt University (CSU)’s Canberra campus.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: What Does It Mean to Say that God Created the Heavens and the Earth?
Chapter Two: About God’s Providence and Power
Chapter Three: Only the Suffering God
Chapter Four: Death and After
Chapter Five: God in Human Form
Chapter Six: The Silence that Gives Light
Chapter Seven: Christianity in a World of Religions
Chapter Eight: One Realm
Bibliography
About the Author
Erscheinungsdatum | 09.05.2024 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte |
ISBN-10 | 1-6669-5581-7 / 1666955817 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-6669-5581-1 / 9781666955811 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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