God's Beauty-In-ACT: Participating in God's Suffering Glory - Couverture rigide

Garrett, Stephen M

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1498261892 ISBN 13 : 9781498261890

Editeur : Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2013

Synopsis

Jurgen Moltmann and others contend that Christian theology and the church face a dual crisis--one of relevance and the other of identity. Despite making this pronouncement nearly forty years ago, the church in the West continues to struggle with this crisis. Several proposals have been espoused, from the way of wisdom to the way of ecclesial praxis. Yet, little attention is given in Protestant theological discourse to the role God's beauty plays in bringing theology and ethics together. By neglecting God's beauty for theological discourse, we risk diminishing Christian worship, witness, and wisdom. God's Beauty-in-Act addresses these issues, in part, by arguing that the redemptive-creative suffering and glorious resurrection of Christ are the nexus of God's being, beauty, and Christian living. God's beauty, understood as the fittingness of the incarnate Son's actions in the Spirit to the Father's will, radiates God's glory and draws perceivers into the dramatic movements of God's triune life. These movements serve as the patterns that shape the imagination, enabling participants to perform their parts creatively and fittingly in God's drama of redemption. In doing so, human beings flourish as they jettison false identities and realities of their own making that are incommensurate with God's purpose found in Christ by the Spirit.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Stephen M. Garrett, PhD, is an Academic Fellow with the International Institute for Christian Studies and Lecturer/Researcher of Public Theology and Philosophy of Religion in the Social Communications Institute at Lithuania University of Educational Sciences.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1498261892
• ISBN 13: 9781498261890
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 262
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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