The Creativity of God: World, Eucharist, Reason
Cambridge University Press (2004)
| Abstract | 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. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Philosophical theology Creation Lord's Supper Reason | |||||||||
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| Call number | BT40.D385 2004 | |||||||||
| ISBN(s) | 0521538459 0521831172 9780521538459 | |||||||||
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