Remythologizing Theology: Divine Action, Passion, and Authorship

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Pub. Date: 2010-03-08
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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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.

Table of Contents

Prefacep. xii
Introduction: What is remythologizing?p. 1
A perennial problem: myth, mythos, and metaphysicsp. 3
A modern solution: demythologizingp. 13
"Soft" vs. "hard" demythologizing: Feuerbachian slipsp. 17
An alternative approach: remythologizingp. 23
The argument: a brief summaryp. 30
"God" in Scripture and theologyp. 33
Biblical representation (Vorstellung): divine communicative action and passionp. 35
A gallery of canonical exhibitsp. 36
A miscellany of theological issuesp. 57
Theological conceptualization (Begriff): varieties of theism and panentheismp. 81
On the very idea of a "classical" theismp. 82
The critique of ontotheology: why are they saying such awful things about perfect being?p. 93
The recovery of Trinitarian theologyp. 105
The relational turnp. 112
The panentheist gambit: children of a greater Godp. 124
The new kenotic-perichoretic relational ontotheology: some "classical" concernsp. 139
Persons and/as relationsp. 140
Perichoresis and/as relationalityp. 149
Passion and/as relatednessp. 162
Passing over/out of Egypt: remythologizing the God-world relationp. 174
Communicative theism and the triune Godp. 179
God's being is in communicatingp. 181
The being of God: a who or what question?p. 183
Thinking biblically; interpreting theologicallyp. 187
The analogy of being-in-act: towards a post-Barthian Thomismp. 198
Being-in-communicative-act: elements of a theodramatic metaphysicp. 222
God in three persons: the one who lights and lives in lovep. 241
Father, Son, and Spirit: communicative agents in immanent relationp. 244
What God communicates: triune "ways" into the far countryp. 259
A "simple" schema: shapes of triune communicative actionp. 271
Communicating triune life: remythologizing "participation in God"p. 279
God and World: authorial action and interactionp. 295
Divine author and human hero in dialogical relationp. 297
Theistic authorship: unpacking the analogyp. 302
Authoring humanity: the God-world relation as divine dialoguep. 316
Divine communicative sovereignty and human freedom: the hero talks backp. 338
His dark materials: does God author evil?p. 338
Exploring the powers: the poetics of biblical discoursep. 346
God's authorial Word enters inp. 356
Triune dialogics: prayer and providencep. 366
Impassible passion? Suffering, emotions, and the crucified Godp. 387
Does God suffer? A theological litmus testp. 388
Motions and emotions: can humans move God?p. 398
The "voice" of the crucified God: active or passive?p. 416
Impassible compassion? From divine pathos to divine patiencep. 434
Divine pathos: suffering lovep. 436
Divine promise: lordly lovep. 441
Divine patience: enduring lovep. 448
Conclusion: Always remythologizing? Answering to the Holy Author in our midstp. 469
Mythos revisited: between mystery and metaphysicsp. 471
Biblical reasoning: the formal principle of divine communicative actionp. 475
Triune authorship: the material principle of divine communicative actionp. 486
Select bibliographyp. 505
Index of subjectsp. 523
Index of scriptural referencep. 533
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