In Face of Mystery A Constructive Theology

Name: In Face of Mystery A Constructive Theology
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ISBN: 9780674445765

ISBN-10: 0674445767

ISBN-13: 9780674445765

Edition: 1993

Authors: Gordon Dester Kaufman

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In the symbolic world of Christianity, which millions have inhabited for centuries, is there room for modern and postmodern life--for today's real world of cultural relativism and religious pluralism, of scientific knowledge and historical understanding? In Face of Mystery draws these two worlds together in a full-scale reconception of Christian theology. Theology, Gordon Kaufman suggests, is an imaginative construction, the creation of a symbolic world for ordering life. As it has been constructed, so it can be reconstructed, and Kaufman does so in a way that clarifies both the historic roots and the present-day applications of Christian symbolism. He works with a "biohistorical"…

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List price: $44.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/15/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 6.37" wide x 9.25" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.870
Language: English

Gordon D. Kaufman was Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr., Professor of Divinity at Harvard University.



Preface



Introduction: Theology as Construction



The Question of God



Theology: One-Dimensional, Two-Dimensional, or Holistic?



Theology as a Human Imaginative Task



Theological Construction and Faith



Mystery, Theology, and Conversation



The Christian World-Picture (I): The Monotheistic Categorial Scheme



The Christian World-Picture (II): The Category of Christ



Constructing a Concept of the Human



Historicity and Biology



Humanity in the World



Toward a Normative Concept of the Human



Agency and Self-Reflexiveness as Sociohistorically Constituted



Subjectivity, Experience, and Freedom



The Interpenetration of Action with Reflection



An Ecological Ethic



The Corruption of Historicity: Freedom and Evil



Historicity and Religion



Constructing a Concept of the Context of Human Existence: The World



Small Steps of Faith



Cosmic Visions and Human Meaning



Serendipitous Creativity



Directional Movements in a Serendipitous Universe



Constructing a Concept of an Ultimate Point of Reference: God



Functions of the Symbol "God"



Reconstructing the Concept of God



Faith in God (I)



Sin and Evil



A Wider Christology



Christ as Paradigm for God and for Humanity



A Trinitarian God



Faith and Life in Today's World



Theocentric Faith and the Churches



Faith in God (II): Christian Theocentrism


Notes


Name index


Subject index


Index of Scriptural References









Interrelation of action and reflection



Christian theological construction: "small steps" of faith leading to a modern understanding of God