One, the Three and the Many God, Creation and the Culture of Modernity

Name: One, the Three and the Many God, Creation and the Culture of Modernity
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ISBN: 9780521421843

ISBN-10: 0521421845

ISBN-13: 9780521421843

Edition: 1993

Authors: Colin E. Gunton

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This study offers a theological analysis of, and response to, the modern world, and is at once a theology of culture and of creation. In the first half of the book, Gunton expounds some of the distinctive and often contradictory features of modern culture. It emerges that modern culture, far from being unique in its difficulties, reflects similar inadequacies in ancient thought. The distinctive pathos of modernity is to be found in one unique feature, namely the displacement of God that is a mark of all realms of life. The roots of the problem are sought beyond the Enlightenment, where they are often located, in the combination of platonism and Christian theology which dominated medieval…

Book details

List price: $59.99
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/29/1993
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.54" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



The Displacement of God



From Heraclitus to Havel


The problem of the one and the many in modern life and thought



The disappearing other


The problem of the particular in modern life and thought



A plea for the present


The problem of relatedness in modern life and thought



The rootless will


The problem of meaning and truth in modern life and thought



Rethinking Createdness



The universal and the particular


Towards a theology of meaning and truth



ï¿½Ç Through whom and in whom


...ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ Towards a theology of relatedness



The Lord who is the Spirit


Towards a theology of the particular



The triune Lord


Towards a theology of the one and the many


Bibliography


Index