Colin Gunton and the Failure of Augustine (Heftet (myke permer))

Bradley G. Green is Associate Professor of Christian Thought and Tradition at Union University (Jackson, Tennessee). He is the author of Shapers of Christian Orthodoxy: Engaging with Early and Medieval Theologians (2010) and The Gospel and the Mind: Recovering and Shaping the Intellectual Life (2010).

Bradley G. Green's close reading of Augustine challenges Colin Gunton's argument that Augustine bequeathed to the West a theological tradition with serious deficiencies. According to Gunton, Augustine's particular construal of the doctrine of God led to fundamental problems in the relationship between creation and redemption. However, Green persuasively argues that Augustine did not sever the link between creation and redemption, but rather affirmed that the created order is a means of genuine knowledge of God by which redemption is accomplished. Green suggests the prominent role this relationship plays in Augustine's doctrines of man and God, provides the kind of relational Christian ontology that Gunton sought. In short, Augustine could have provided Gunton with fundamental theological resources in countering the modernity he so rightly challenged.

Foreword by Lewis Ayres Acknowledgments 1 Colin Gunton and the Failure of Augustine 2 Creation and Redemption in the Theology of Colin Gunton 3 Being and Ontology in the Theology of Colin Gunton 4 Creation and Redemption in Augustine's De Trinitate 5 Being and Ontology in Augustine's De Trinitate 6 A Critique of Colin Gunton 7 Conclusion Bibliography Index