God Being Nothing : Toward a Theogony / Ray L. Hart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hart, Ray L., Author.

Series:

Religion and postmodernism.

Religion and Postmodernism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

God.

Philosophical theology.

Postmodern theology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this long-awaited work, Ray L. Hart offers a radical speculative theology that profoundly challenges classical understandings of the divine. God Being Nothing contests the conclusions of numerous orthodoxies through a probing question: How can thinking of God reach closure when the subjects of creation are themselves unfinished, when God's self-revelation in history is ongoing, when the active manifestation of God is still occurring? Drawing on a lifetime of reading in philosophy and religious thought, Hart unfolds a vision of God perpetually in process: an unfinished God being self-created from nothingness. Breaking away from the traditional focus on divine persons, Hart reimagines the Trinity in terms of theogony, cosmogony, and anthropogony in order to reveal an ever-emerging Godhead who encompasses all of temporal creation and, within it, human existence. The book's ultimate implication is that Being and Nonbeing mutually participate in an ongoing process of divine coming-to-birth and dying that implicates all things, existent and nonexistent, temporal and eternal. God's continual generation from nothing manifests the full actualization of freedom: the freedom to create ex nihilo.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

An Imperfect Overview

Introduction. Pre-facing the Divine

Topos 1. Theogony (Θεογονία): Godhead and God

Topos 2. Cosmogony (Κοσμογονία): God and Creature

Topos 3. Anthropogony: Creature and God

Postscript. Afterthinking Theology as Hermeneutics

Appendix A: What Did the Cartesian Cogito Establish as a Starting Point for Thinking the Human Being Who Thinks God?

Appendix B: Fault and Fall in Human Existence

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226359762

022635976X

OCLC:

946887836