The God Who Lives: Investigating the Emergence of Life and the Doctrine of God - Couverture rigide

Pryor, Adam

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1498267009 ISBN 13 : 9781498267007

Editeur : Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2014

Synopsis

Christian theology has affirmed throughout its history that God is a "living" God. But what does it mean that God lives? Why does it matter? Does God live like us? If God does not live like us what is the difference between our living and God's living? These are the questions Adam Pryor addresses in The God Who Lives. The book considers "life" as a conceptual problem, examining how new studies about the emergence of life have critical implications for interpreting the religious symbol "God is living." In particular, Pryor suggests how absence and desire, what is termed "abstential desire," are critical principles of life for scientific and philosophical thinking today. He goes on to develop a constructive theological proposal in which the theological meaning of the symbol "God is living" is interpreted in terms of the insights garnered from the principle of abstential desire, concluding that God can be understood as akin to the role played by absence in living things. Life is an absent but effective whole in relation to the material parts of which it is comprised. God as living is a similarly effective absence in relation to the world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Adam Pryor is Assistant Professor of Religion at Bethany College in Lindsborg, Kansas.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wipf & Stock Publishers
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1498267009
• ISBN 13: 9781498267007
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 230
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible