Oliver Davies

Creativity of God (eBook, PDF)

World, Eucharist, Reason

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511207112
• Artikelnr.: 38183493

Autorenporträt

Oliver Davies was a lector at the University of Cologne (1982-84). His work as a translator includes Beguine Spirituality: An Anthology, edited by Fiona Bowie (1989).

Inhaltsangabe

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.