Remythologizing Theology Divine Action, Passion, and Authorship

Name: Remythologizing Theology Divine Action, Passion, and Authorship
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ISBN: 9781107405578

ISBN-10: 1107405572

ISBN-13: 9781107405578

Edition: 2012

Authors: Kevin J. Vanhoozer

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The rise of modern science and the proclaimed 'death' of God in the nineteenth century led to a radical questioning of divine action and authorship - Bultmann's celebrated 'demythologizing'. Remythologizing Theology, a 2010 book, moves in another direction that begins by taking seriously the biblical accounts of God's speaking. It establishes divine communicative action as the formal and material principle of theology, and suggests that interpersonal dialogue, rather than impersonal causality, is the keystone of God's relationship with the world. This original contribution to the theology of divine action and authorship develops a fresh vision of Christian theism. It also revisits several…

Book details

Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/19/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 560
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 1.14" tall
Weight: 2.222
Language: English

Kevin Vanhoozer is Research Professor of Systematic Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.James K. A. Smith is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Seminars in Christian Scholarship at Calvin College.Bruce Ellis Benson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wheaton College.Kevin Vanhoozer is Research Professor of Systematic Theology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.James K. A. Smith is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Director of Seminars in Christian Scholarship at Calvin College.Bruce Ellis Benson is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Wheaton College.



Preface


Introduction: what is remythologizing?



'God' in Scripture and Theology



Biblical representation (Vorstellung): divine communicative action and passion



Theological conceptualization (Begriff): varieties of theism and panentheism



The new kenotic-perichoretic relational ontotheology: some 'classical' concerns



Communicative Theism and the Triune God



God's being is in communicating



God in three persons: the one who lights and lives in love



God and World: Authorial Action and Interaction



Divine author and human hero in dialogical relation



Divine communicative sovereignty and human freedom: the hero talks back



Impassible passion? Suffering, emotions, and the crucified God



Impassible compassion? From divine pathos to divine patience


Conclusion: always remythologizing? Answering to the Holy author in our midst


Select bibliography


Index of scriptural references


General index