The creativity of God: world, Eucharist, reason
We have, as a theological community, generally lost a language in which to speak of the created-ness of the world. As a consequence, our discourses of reason cannot bridge the way we know God and the way we know the world. Therefore, argues Oliver Davies, a primary task of contemporary theology is t...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
2004.
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| In: | Year: 2004 |
| Reviews: | The Creativity of God: World, Eucharist, Reason. By Oliver Davies. Pp. xii + 210. (Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine, 12.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. isbn 0 521 83117 2 and 53845 9. Hardback £45/75; paper £17.99/27.99 (2006) (Horne, Brian, 1939 -)
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| Series/Journal: | Cambridge studies in Christian doctrine
12 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Creation theology
/ Eucharist
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| Further subjects: | B
Creation
B Lord's Supper B Philosophical Theology B Reason |
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| Summary: | We have, as a theological community, generally lost a language in which to speak of the created-ness of the world. As a consequence, our discourses of reason cannot bridge the way we know God and the way we know the world. Therefore, argues Oliver Davies, a primary task of contemporary theology is the regeneration of a Christian account of the world as sacramental, leading to the formation of a Christian conception of reason and a new Christocentric understanding of the real. Both the Johannine tradition of creation through the Word and a Eucharistic semiotics of Christ as the embodied, sacrificial and creative speech of God serve the project of a repairal of Christian cosmology. The world itself is viewed as a creative text authored by God, of which we as interpreters are an integral part. This is a wide-ranging and convincing book that makes an important contribution to modern theology. |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) |
| ISBN: | 0511616929 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511616921 |