Bodies Inhabiting the World. 9781666931433. Innbundet - 2023

Bodies Inhabiting the World: Scandinavian Creation Theology and the Question of Home offers a multidimensional investigation of how houses, bodies, communities and the whole universe may be conceived and refigured as places where we belong—where we are at home in God’s creation. In this way, revisiting the tradition of Scandinavian creation theology provides profound resources to make theological affirmations of God’s omnipresence in the human condition we all share. The emergence here of an exciting new theological program can be recognized—beyond the limitations of other contemporary agendas' cul-de-sacs, blind spots and diffidence.What it is to have a home is a universal question closely connected to what it means to be human and to live a good, flourishing, life. But the negative experiences of homelessness, broken homes, statelessness and alienation always lurk in the background of the universal quest to find one's home in the world. This book contains fourteen essays exploring the dynamics of the human experience of finding, losing and finding again a home.

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Fourteen theologians consider what it means to have a home in the world. Drawing on and also critically engaging with Scandinavian creation theology, they explore how we are at home (or are threatened with its opposite) in one's own skin, dwelling, community, or even the cosmos writ large.

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AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Belonging, Comfort and Delight: An Invitation to Home and SCT, Derek R. NelsonPart I: Home and Creation: Place, Journey and ArrivalChapter 1: Home and Creation Dynamics, Bengt Kristensson UgglaChapter 2: Living on Borrowed Ground: Inhabitation as Lived Creation Theology, Mary Emily Briehl Duba, Chapter 3: Coming Home to God: Procession and Return in Pseudo-Dionysius and Marguerite Porete, Ryan McAnnally-LinzChapter 4: Pilgrim's Homecoming, Svein Aage Christoffersen,Part II: Homes, Bodies and SocietyChapter 5: The Body as Home and Horizon, Allen G. JorgensonChapter 6: Who Does Not Want to Have a Family? Home and Family, Reality and Ideal, Elisabeth GerleChapter 7: Home Is Where Trust Is: Exilic Existence and Theological Trust Culture in Luther and Løgstrup, Sasja Emilie Mathiasen StopaChapter 8: Expectations of a Second-Skin Dwelling: Some Theo-political Reflections on the Significance of Homes, Trygve WyllerChapter 9: Ordinary Lives and the Home as a Safe Space, Else Marie Wiberg PedersenPart III: Cosmos as HomeChapter 10: Deep Inhabitations: Home and Cosmos in Scandinavian Creation Theology, Niels Henrik GregersenChapter 11: At Home in the Universe? Jakob WolfChapter 12: At Home in the Cosmos, Ted PetersChapter 14: Embodying Creation and Gospel: Thinking With and After Gustaf Wingren, Lois MalcomAbout the Contributors

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Scandinavian Creation theology is a dynamic and significant contribution to contemporary constructive theology. The name should not mislead you, though: The volume shows the international relevance its resources represents, and contains insights that can be employed in a profound manner by scholars in other parts of the world, as well. Thus, SCT it is part of a wider web of theological work that goes on in the present in order to enhance our understanding of the depths of human existence and experience

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