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Confronting a controlling God : Christian humanism and the moral imagination / Catherine M. Wallace.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wallace, Catherine M., author.
- Series:
- Confronting fundamentalism.
- A confronting fundamentalism book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- God.
- Christian humanism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (132 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, [2016]
- Summary:
- Christianity has lost control of its brand. That matters even for nonbelievers because Christian symbolism permeates Western culture. It shapes the source code for how we think about ourselves and what we expect from one another. If God is all-controlling, then human control is divinely sanctioned. Our efforts to control one another have cosmic legitimacy--the legitimacy claimed by fundamentalists pursuing a political agenda that has nothing to do with Jesus of Nazareth. But if God is defined as compassion and loving-kindness, then Christianity calls the faithful to compassion and radical hospitality. Wallace traces the backstory of this vitally important tension all the way back to competing translations of Moses's argument with the burning bush, arguing for a "Copernican turn" in which the spiritual encounter with compassionate Presence lies at the heart of Christianity.
- Contents:
- Confronting fundamentalism: the dangerous God of "control and condemn"
- 1967: What the cake said
- God-talk 101: The art that is Christianity
- The Copernican turn of Christian humanism
- Quantum theology: the symbolic character of God-talk
- Theological weirdness (1): the symbolic claim that God is a person
- Poets as theologians: the moral imagination of Christian Humanist tradition
- Moses debates with a burning bush
- I AM v. I WILL BE: translation and the authority of theologians
- Theological weirdness (2): the symbolic claim that God is necessarily impersonal
- What, then, can be said about God?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781498228947
- 1498228941
- OCLC:
- 964402534
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