Human Experience and the Triune God
Title | Human Experience and the Triune God PDF eBook |
Author | Bernhard Nausner |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Total Pages | 334 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9783039113903 |
The overarching aim of this work is to develop a new account of the doctrine of the Trinity. The author proposes that such an approach is overdue because contemporary trinitarian theology pays insufficient attention to the fact that theology as linguistic discourse is inescapably embedded in human experience. Hence the critical analysis of existing trinitarian constructions (Gunton, LaCugna, Moltmann) is impressively sharp. In response Nausner develops an 'interstitial methodology', working between experience and revelation, refusing both revelational and experiential positivisms. In dialogue with contemporary novels, the human sciences (Frankl, Weizsäcker), philosophy (Levinas) and biblical narratives, he offers an imaginative, original and contemporary way of conceiving the doctrine of the Trinity in relation to human life.
Traces of the Trinity
Title | Traces of the Trinity PDF eBook |
Author | Peter J. Leithart |
Publisher | Brazos Press |
Total Pages | 176 |
Release | 2015-03-10 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1441222510 |
As the Triune God created the world, so creation bears the signs of its Creator. This evocative book by an influential Christian thinker explores the pattern of mutual indwelling that characterizes the creation at every level. Traces of the Trinity appear in myriad ways in everyday life, from our relations with the world and our relationships with others to sexuality, time, language, music, ethics, and logic. This small book with a big idea--the Trinity as the Christian theory of everything--changes the way we view and think about the world and places demands on the way we live together in community.
The Meaning of God in Human Experience
Title | The Meaning of God in Human Experience PDF eBook |
Author | William Ernest Hocking |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 632 |
Release | 1912 |
Genre | God |
ISBN |
The author discusses what God has meant to mankind; what effect religion has had on human affairs; and what results religion as had in man's personal life. -- Dust jacket.
The Triune God of Christian Faith
Title | The Triune God of Christian Faith PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Ann Fatula |
Publisher | Liturgical Press |
Total Pages | 138 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780814657652 |
"A Michael Glazier book." Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-123) and index.
God of All Comfort
Title | God of All Comfort PDF eBook |
Author | Scott Harrower |
Publisher | Lexham Press |
Total Pages | 197 |
Release | 2019-04-24 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 168359231X |
How does God respond to trauma in a world full of horrors? Beyond their physical and emotional toll, the horrors of this world raise difficult theological and existential questions. Where is God in the darkest moments of the human experience? Is there any hope for recovery from the trauma generated by these horrors? There are no easy answers to these questions. In God of All Comfort, Scott Harrower addresses these questions head on. Using the Gospel of Matthew as a backdrop, he argues for a Trinitarian approach to horrors, showing how God--in his triune nature--reveals himself to those who have experienced trauma. He explores the many ways God relates restoratively with humanity, showing how God's light shines through the darkness of trauma.
The Gracing of Human Experience
Title | The Gracing of Human Experience PDF eBook |
Author | Donald L. Gelpi SJ |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | 380 |
Release | 2008-04-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1725220431 |
This study ponders different ways Christian thinkers understood humanity in its relationship to divine grace. It names fallacies that have in the past skewed theological understanding of that relationship. It argues that the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce avoided those same fallacies and provides a novel frame of reference for rethinking the theology of grace. The author shows how the insights of other American philosophers flesh out undeveloped aspects of Peirce's thought. He formulates a metaphysics of experience derived from his philosophical analysis. Finally, he develops an understanding of supernatural grace as the transmutation and transvaluation of human experience.
In Search of the Triune God
Title | In Search of the Triune God PDF eBook |
Author | Eugene Webb |
Publisher | University of Missouri Press |
Total Pages | 449 |
Release | 2014-03-11 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0826273076 |
Under the broad umbrella of the Christian religion, there exists a great divide between two fundamentally different ways of thinking about key aspects of the Christian faith. Eugene Webb explores the sources of that divide, looking at how the Eastern and Western Christian worlds drifted apart due both to the different ways they interpreted their symbols and to the different roles political power played in their histories. Previous studies have focused on historical events or on the history of theological ideas. In Search of the Triune God delves deeper by exploring how the Christian East and the Christian West have conceived the relation between symbol and experience. Webb demonstrates that whereas for Western Christianity discussion of the doctrine of the Trinity has tended toward speculation about the internal structure of the Godhead, in the Eastern tradition the symbolism of the Triune God has always been closely connected to religious experience. In their approaches to theology, Western Christianity has tended toward a speculative theology, and Eastern Christianity toward a mystical theology. This difference of focus has led to a large range of fundamental differences in many areas not only of theology but also of religious life. Webb traces the history of the pertinent symbols (God as Father, Son of God, Spirit of God, Messiah, King, etc.) from the Hebrew Bible and New Testament through patristic thinkers and the councils that eventually defined orthodoxy. In addition, he shows how the symbols, interpreted through the different cultural lenses of the East and the West, gradually took on meanings that became the material of very different worldviews, especially as the respective histories of the Eastern and Western Christian worlds led them into different kinds of entanglement with ambition and power. Through this incisive exploration, Webb offers a dramatic and provocative new picture of the history of Christianity.