How is God sovereign with respect to creation? Does creation affect God? Does God suffer or change because of creation? If so, how is this related to Christology? Why have these questions been so controversial in evangelical theology, even costing some people their jobs? This book is a collection of lectures given to the Forum for Evangelical Theology at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. Six theologians answer the questions above from a variety of perspectives. They draw on resources including the church fathers, Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin, Jurgen Moltmann, process theology, and open theism. In the process of answering the question, does God suffer? each theologian also illustrates how responding to this subject requires an examination of other crucial evangelical issues, such as how we read Scripture and what it means to proclaim that God is love. Although the writers answer these questions in a variety of ways, the hope is that engaging in this conversation together can help evangelicals and all Christians to speak more faithfully of our sovereign God.
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A collection of lectures from a variety of theological standpoints, this is a wide-ranging discussion of the nature of God's sovereignty with respect to creation.
Preface Part One: God's Sovereignty and Evangelical Theology 1. The Importance of the Conversation Concerning the Doctrine of Divine (Im)passibility: An Introduction to God's Sovereignty and Evangelical Theology / Jimmy Cooper 2. The Sovereignty of God and Divine Transcendence: Two Views from the Early Church / George Kalantzis 3. Aquinas and God's Sovereignty / D. Stephen Long 4. John Calvin on Sovereignty / Vincent Bacote 5. Divine Sovereignty in the Process Theological Tradition (with a little help from John Wesley) / Michael Lodahl 6. 'God's Power Is God's Goodness': Some Notes on the Sovereignty of God in Jurgen Moltmann's Theology / Nancy Elizabeth Bedford 7. Divine Suffering in an Openness of God Perspective / John Sanders 8. Suffering and the Sovereign Love of God: A Conclusion to God's Sovereignty and Evangelical Theology / Thomas G. Weinandy, OFM, Cap Part Two: Responses 9. John Sanders 10. Nancy Elizabeth Bedford 11. Michael Lodahl 12. Vincent Bacote 13. D. Stephen Long 14. George Kalantzis
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'...Paul Gavrilyuk, desires 'a companion volume that would put [diverse contemporary] approaches [to divine passibility] in conversation with patristic theology' (p.133), which is a neat description of precisely the volume by Long and Kalantzis.' Michael Brierley, Modern Believing, Volume 53, Issue 1
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How is God sovereign with respect to creation? Does creation affect God? Does God suffer or change because of creation? If so, how is this related to Christology? Why have these questions been so controversial in evangelical theology, even costing some people their jobs? This book is a collection of lectures given to the Forum for Evangelical Theology at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. Six theologians answer the questions above from a variety of perspectives. They draw on resources including the church fathers, Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin, Jürgen Moltmann, process theology, and open theism. In the process of answering the question, does God suffer? each theologian also illustrates how responding to this subject requires an examination of other crucial evangelical issues, such as how we read Scripture and what it means to proclaim that God is love. Although the writers answer these questions in a variety of ways, the hope is that engaging in this conversation together can help evangelicals and all Christians to speak more faithfully of our sovereign God.
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ISBN
9780227172964
Publisert
2010
Utgiver
Vendor
James Clarke & Co Ltd
Vekt
313 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
153 mm
Aldersnivå
U, 05
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Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
204

Biographical note

D. Stephen Long is Professor of Systematic Theology at Marquette University. amongst his recent publications are 'Tragedy, Tradition, Transformism' (2007), 'The Goodness of God' (2008). Forthcoming from James Clarke & Co in Autumn 2010 is his 'Sovereignty of God Debate'. George Kalantzis is Associate Professor of Theology at Wheaton College. His work has appeared in a number of theological and ecclesial journals, including Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses, Augustinianum, Studia Patristica, and St. Vladimir's Theological Quarterly. His recent books include Theodore of Mopsuestia: Commentary on the Gospel of John (Early Christian Studies 7) and the forthcoming coedited volume, If These Stones Could Speak: Texts and Contexts (Edwin Mellen).