Remythologizing theology : divine action, passion, and authorship /
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| Author / Creator: | Vanhoozer, Kevin J. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010. |
| Description: | xix, 539 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge studies in Christian doctrine ; 18 Cambridge studies in Christian doctrine ; 18. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7988221 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction: What is remythologizing?
- A perennial problem: myth, mythos, and metaphysics
- A modern solution: demythologizing
- "Soft" vs. "hard" demythologizing: Feuerbachian slips
- An alternative approach: remythologizing
- The argument: a brief summary
- Part I. "God" in Scripture and theology
- 1. Biblical representation (Vorstellung): divine communicative action and passion
- A gallery of canonical exhibits
- A miscellany of theological issues
- 2. Theological conceptualization (Begriff): varieties of theism and panentheism
- On the very idea of a "classical" theism
- The critique of ontotheology: why are they saying such awful things about perfect being?
- The recovery of Trinitarian theology
- The relational turn
- The panentheist gambit: children of a greater God
- 3. The new kenotic-perichoretic relational ontotheology: some "classical" concerns
- Persons and/as relations
- Perichoresis and/as relationality
- Passion and/as relatedness
- Passing over/out of Egypt: remythologizing the God-world relation
- Part II. Communicative theism and the triune God
- 4. God's being is in communicating
- The being of God: a who or what question?
- Thinking biblically; interpreting theologically
- The analogy of being-in-act: towards a post-Barthian Thomism
- Being-in-communicative-act: elements of a theodramatic metaphysic
- 5. God in three persons: the one who lights and lives in love
- Father, Son, and Spirit: communicative agents in immanent relation
- What God communicates: triune "ways" into the far country
- A "simple" schema: shapes of triune communicative action
- Communicating triune life: remythologizing "participation in God"
- Part III. God and World: authorial action and interaction
- 6. Divine author and human hero in dialogical relation
- Theistic authorship: unpacking the analogy
- Authoring humanity: the God-world relation as divine dialogue
- 7. Divine communicative sovereignty and human freedom: the hero talks back
- His dark materials: does God author evil?
- Exploring the powers: the poetics of biblical discourse
- God's authorial Word enters in
- Triune dialogics: prayer and providence
- 8. Impassible passion? Suffering, emotions, and the crucified God
- Does God suffer? A theological litmus test
- Motions and emotions: can humans move God?
- The "voice" of the crucified God: active or passive?
- 9. Impassible compassion? From divine pathos to divine patience
- Divine pathos: suffering love
- Divine promise: lordly love
- Divine patience: enduring love
- Conclusion: Always remythologizing? Answering to the Holy Author in our midst
- Mythos revisited: between mystery and metaphysics
- Biblical reasoning: the formal principle of divine communicative action
- Triune authorship: the material principle of divine communicative action
- Select bibliography
- Index of subjects
- Index of scriptural reference
