God and creation in intercultural perspective : dialogue between the theologies of Barth, Dickson, Pobee, Nyamiti and Pannenberg /
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| Author / Creator: | Fulljames, Peter. |
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| Imprint: | Frankfurt am Main ; New York : P. Lang, c1993. |
| Description: | ix, 190 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studien zur interkulturellen Geschichte des Christentums, 0170-9240 ; Bd. 86 = Etudes d'histoire interculturelle du christianisme = Studies in the intercultural history of Christianity Studien zur interkulturellen Geschichte des Christentums ; Bd. 86. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13223476 |
| Summary: | African Christian theologies aim to contextualise the gospel in African cultures, yet they also have much to offer to the development of systematic theology elsewhere. In this book the responses of Barth and of Pannenberg to the question of how God is related to the world are analysed and then re-formulated. This is done through interaction with the themes of community, life and co-creativity which emerge in interpretation of Dickson, Pobee and Nyamiti. The discussion makes use of Tanner's rules for Christian language about God and creation, and the methods of the African theologies are distinguished in a new classification of models of contextualisation, which is compared with the work of Schreiter and with Frei's typology of modern theology. The concluding development of Pannenberg's theology is shown to be relevant to topics much debated in the late twentieth century: the environmental crisis, the relationship of science and religious belief, the nature of human freedom, and the problem of evil. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 190 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-190). |
| ISBN: | 3631456093 |
| ISSN: | 0170-9240 ; |