Description: Colin Gunton argued that Augustine bequeathed to the West a theological tradition with serious deficiencies. According to Gunton, Augustine's particular construal of the doctrine of God led to fundamental errors and problems in grasping the relationship between creation and redemption, and in rightfully construing a truly Christian ontology. Bradley G. Green's close reading of Augustine challenges Gunton's understanding. Gunton argued that Augustine's supposed emphasis of the one over the many severed any meaningful link between creation and redemption (contra the theological...
Description: Colin Gunton argued that Augustine bequeathed to the West a theological tradition with serious deficiencies. According to Gunton, Augusti...
Description: Contemporary literature has, for several decades and in various guises, been dominated by questions of identity and the self. It has been forgotten that, until the Enlightenment, theological reflection emphasized the close connectedness of the self with God; knowledge of God is essential to knowledge of the self; and vice-versa, correct knowledge of the self is a necessary correlate to true knowledge of God. This has been called the double knowledge. Writing God and the Self examines two literary texts and lives as representative of two antithetical positions. The first,...
Description: Contemporary literature has, for several decades and in various guises, been dominated by questions of identity and the self. It has been...
Description: The human imagination is a reflection of and a participation in the divine imagination; so mused the romantic poet, philosopher and theologian Samuel Taylor Coleridge. His thinking was intuitive, dense, obscure, brilliant, and deeply influenced by German philosophy. This book explores the development of his philosophical theology with particular reference to the imagination, examining the diverse streams that contributed to the originality of his thought. The second section of this book extrapolates his thinking into areas into which Coleridge did not venture. If God is...
Description: The human imagination is a reflection of and a participation in the divine imagination; so mused the romantic poet, philosopher and theol...
Description: The cross of Christ is undeniably central to the Christian faith. But, how can the cruelty and brutality of a two-thousand-year-old Roman cross touch base with a hedonistic world that has been so desensitized towards violence? Within the postmodern setting of a body-obsessed culture, Christianity urgently requires an innovative and stimulating way of understanding the cross and its atoning significance. At the heart of this book is the Naked Christ--an emblem through which the author draws on the rich resources of the Christian tradition in its portrayal of the cross. He explores...
Description: The cross of Christ is undeniably central to the Christian faith. But, how can the cruelty and brutality of a two-thousand-year-old Roman...
About the Contributor(s): Stan Rodes (PhD) is Assistant District Superintendent of the Intermountain District Church of the Nazarene and also serves as a member of the adjunct faculty of Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho.
About the Contributor(s): Stan Rodes (PhD) is Assistant District Superintendent of the Intermountain District Church of the Nazarene and also serves a...
About the Contributor(s): Timothy J. Furry (PhD, University of Dayton) is Instructor of Religion and Philosophy and Chaplain at Cranbrook Kingswood Upper School, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He is coeditor of Ecclesiology and Exclusion (2012) and author of multiple theological essays, book chapters, and reviews.
About the Contributor(s): Timothy J. Furry (PhD, University of Dayton) is Instructor of Religion and Philosophy and Chaplain at Cranbrook Kingswood Up...
About the Contributor(s): Todd Edmondson is the Senior Pastor at First Christian Church in Erwin, Tennessee. He frequently teaches at Milligan College and Emmanuel Christian Seminary in the areas of religion and the humanities.
About the Contributor(s): Todd Edmondson is the Senior Pastor at First Christian Church in Erwin, Tennessee. He frequently teaches at Milligan College...
About the Contributor(s): Pamela R. McCarroll is Assistant Professor of Pastoral Theology and Director of Field Education at Knox College in the University of Toronto. She is certified as a Teaching Supervisor by the Canadian Association of Spiritual Care (CASC) and ordained in the Presbyterian Church in Canada. Pam's interest in hope grows out of her clinical work in spiritual care and her yearning to think and live the faith amidst rapid changes in church and public life.
About the Contributor(s): Pamela R. McCarroll is Assistant Professor of Pastoral Theology and Director of Field Education at Knox College in the Unive...
