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The Creativity of God Oliver Davies (King's College London)

The Creativity of God By Oliver Davies (King's College London)

The Creativity of God by Oliver Davies (King's College London)


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Theological tradition has lost sight of the created-ness of the world, separating knowledge of God and the world. This book works towards the reintegration of Christian cosmology, via the Johannine tradition of creation through the Word and a Eucharistic semiotic of Christ as the embodied creative speech of God.

The Creativity of God Summary

The Creativity of God: World, Eucharist, Reason by Oliver Davies (King's College London)

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.

The Creativity of God Reviews

"Davies produces a work that is at once radical and very traditional for a Western theology--one that is well worth reading." James W. Farwell, The General Theological Seminary

About Oliver Davies (King's College London)

Oliver Davies is Reader in Philosophical Theology at the University of Wales, Lampeter. He is also a visiting fellow at the Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture at Regent's Park College, University of Oxford. He is the author of Silence and the Word (2002) and has co-edited, with Denys Turner, A Theology of Compassion (2001).

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.

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NPB9780521538459
9780521538459
0521538459
The Creativity of God: World, Eucharist, Reason by Oliver Davies (King's College London)
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2004-08-05
224
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