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The creativity of God : world, Eucharist, reason / Oliver Davies.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davies, Oliver, 1956- author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in Christian doctrine ; 12.
- Cambridge studies in Christian doctrine ; 12
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Philosophical theology.
- Creation.
- Lord's Supper.
- Reason.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 210 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction The cosmological imperative; I An archaeology of createdness; II Scriptural cosmology; III Eucharistic Wisdom; Conclusion Cosmology and the theological imagination; Select bibliography; Index of biblical citations; General index
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-202) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-107-14841-3
- 1-280-54024-9
- 0-511-21429-4
- 0-511-21608-4
- 0-511-21071-X
- 0-511-31502-3
- 0-511-61692-9
- 0-511-21248-8
- OCLC:
- 560239353
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