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    Remythologizing theology : divine action, passion, and authorship / Kevin J. Vanhoozer.

    • Title:Remythologizing theology : divine action, passion, and authorship / Kevin J. Vanhoozer.
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    • Author/Creator:Vanhoozer, Kevin J.
    • Published/Created:Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Bultmann, Rudolf, 1884-1976.
      Philosophical theology.
      God (Christianity)
      Demythologization.
    • Description:xix, 539 p. ; 24 cm.
    • Series:Cambridge studies in Christian doctrine ; 18.
    • Summary:"The rise of modern science and the proclaimed 'death' of God in the nineteenth century led to a radical questioning of divine action and authorship - Bultmann's celebrated 'demythologizing'. Remythologizing Theology moves in another direction that begins by taking seriously the biblical accounts of God's speaking. It establishes divine communicative action as the formal and material principle of theology, and suggests that interpersonal dialogue, rather than impersonal causality, is the keystone of God's relationship with the world. This original contribution to the theology of divine action and authorship develops a new vision of Christian theism. It also revisits several long-standing controversies such as the relations of God's sovereignty to human freedom, time to eternity, and suffering to love. Groundbreaking and thought-provoking, it brings theology into fruitful dialogue with philosophy, literary theory, and biblical studies"--Provided by publisher.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 505-522) and indexes.
    • ISBN:9780521470124 (hardback)
      0521470129 (hardback)
    • Contents:Introduction : What is remythologizing?
      Pt. I. "God" in scripture and theology. Biblical representation (Vorstellung) : divine communicative action and passion
      Theological conceptualization (Begriff) : varieties of theism and panentheism
      The new kenotic-perichoretic relational ontotheology : some "classical" concerns
      Pt. II. Communicative theism and the triune God. God's being is in communicating
      God in three persons : the one who lights and lives in love
      Pt. III. God and world : authorial action and interaction. Divine author and human hero in dialogical relation
      Divine communicative sovereignty and human freedom : the hero talks back
      Impassible passion? : suffering, emotions, and the crucified God
      Impassible compassion? : from divine pathos to divine patience
      Conclusion : Always remythologizing? : answering to the holy author in our midst.
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