The Creativity of God: World, Eucharist, Reason

di Oliver Davies (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2004

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.

• Autore: Oliver Davies
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine
• Anno: 2004
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 224 p.
• Dimensioni: 235 x 157 mm
• Peso: 479 gr.
• EAN: 9780521831178

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