The Creativity of God
The Creativity of God
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.
- Offers a scriptural account of the world
- Explores a theology of the Eucharist as divine creativity
- Oliver Davies is one of the UK's leading theologians
Product details
August 2004Paperback
9780521538459
224 pages
229 × 152 × 12 mm
0.31kg
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Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION: THE cOSMOLOGICAL IMPERATIVE
- Part I. AN ARCHAEOLOGY oF CREATEDNESS:
- 1. The architecture of createdness
- 2. The metaphysics of createdness
- 3. Cosmological fragments
- Part II. Scriptural Cosmology:
- 4. Speech revealed
- 5. Spirit and letter
- 6. Voice and sacrifice
- Part III. Eucharistic Wisdom:
- 7. The abundant real
- 8. Wisdom of the flesh
- 9. Eucharistic reasoning
- Conclusion: Cosmology and the theological imagination.
