The One, the Three and the Many

Colin E. Gunton

doi:10.1017/CBO9781139166546

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 Christian thought. At the heart of the matter is a deficient - because of an inadequately trinitarian - understanding of creation and creation's God. The second half of the book develops a powerful theology of creation where due weight can be given to both universal and particular, both society and the individual.

"By suggesting that many of the ills of modernity reflect the displacement of God, Colin Gunton helps us to see our problem in a new light. Anyone concerned with theology and with its relation to the modern predicament must read The One, the Three and the Many." Stanley Hauerwas

"[Gunton's] work merits wide and careful consideration. His study is meticulously structured, replete with signposts that enhance its readability as well as sturdily conveying his vigorous and thoroughly theological intellectual program." Nancy A. Dallavalle, Theological Studies

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Frontmatter
pp i-viii

Contents
pp ix-xii

Preface
pp xiii-xiv

Introduction
pp 1-8

PART ONE - THE DISPLACEMENT OF GOD
pp 9-10

1 - From Heraclitus to Havel. The problem of the one and the many in modern life and thought
pp 11-40

2 - The disappearing other. The problem of the particular in modern life and thought
pp 41-73

3 - A plea for the present. The problem of relatedness in modern life and thought
pp 74-100

4 - The rootless will. The problem of meaning and truth in modern life and thought
pp 101-126

PART TWO - RETHINKING CREATEDNESS
pp 127-128

5 - The universal and the particular. Towards a theology of meaning and truth
pp 129-154

6 - ‘Through whom and in whom …’ Towards a theology of relatedness
pp 155-179

7 - The Lord who is the Spirit. Towards a theology of the particular
pp 180-209

8 - The triune Lord. Towards a theology of the one and the many
pp 210-231

Bibliography
pp 232-240

Index
pp 241-248

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