The LORD Who Listens

Charles C. Helmer IV, Ph.D. (2021), Durham University, is a campus minister at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.

Contents


Acknowledgements





Introduction





Part 1: An Interpretation of God’s Hearing


1 Scripture: An Auscultation of Hearing


 1.1 Abraham and the Covenant: An Interpretive Framework


 1.2 Hearing in the Psalms


 1.3 New Testament Continuities and Transformations


 1.4 Conclusion





2 Karl Barth and the Promise of God’s Hearing


 2.1 Creation and Covenant: The Place of God’s Hearing


 2.2 The Priority of Divine Agency in Human Speaking and Divine Hearing


 2.3 Confidence in the God Who Hears


 2.4 Hearing and God’s Constancy


 2.5 Conclusion





Part 2: A Constructive Proposal for God’s Hearing


3 Creation: A Theological Grammar


 3.1 God’s Radical Ontological Alterity and Infinite Proximity


 3.2 God as Hearer in Being and Act


 3.3 God’s Hearing—an Utterly Gratuitous and Perfect Gift of Love


 3.4 Conclusion





4 Anthropology: Being Heard into Hearing Beings


 4.1 Human Social Formation


 4.2 Formed by the Hearing of Others


 4.3 Malformed by Silence


 4.4 God’s Hearing and Human Becoming


 4.5 Conclusion





5 Christology: The Triumph of the Always-Heard Word


 5.1 Incarnation


 5.2 Death


 5.3 Resurrection


 5.4 Ascension


 5.5 Conclusion





Conclusion: “O That I Had One to Hear Me!”


Bibliography


Index of Subjects