an adventurous book ... compelling and memorable
Oliver O'Donovan, Theologische Literaturzeitung
The overall proposal of this book is attractive: to do theology in a new way.
Werner G. Jeanrond, University of Oxford, Theology journal
Significant advances in science bring new understandings of the human as a unity of mind, body and world and calls into question the deep-seated dualistic presuppositions of modern theology. Oliver Davies argues that the changing framework allows a return to the defining question of the Easter Church: 'Where is Jesus Christ?'. This is a question which can bring about a fundamental re-orientation of theology, since it gives space for the theological reception of the disruptive presence of the living Christ as the present material as well as formal object of theology in the world. At the centre of this study therefore is a new theology of the doctrine of the exaltation of Christ, based upon St Paul's encounter with the exalted or commissioning Christ on the road to Damascus. This places calling and commissioning at the centre of systematic theology. It provides the ground for a new understanding of theology as transcending the Academy-Church division as well as the divide between systematic and practical theology. It points also to a new critical theological method of engagement and collaboration.
This book begins to explore new forms of world-centred theological rationality in the contexts not only of scripture, doctrine, anthropology, ecclesiology and faith, but also of Christian politics and philosophy. It is a work of contemporary and global Christological promise in Fundamental Theology, and is addressed to all those who are concerned, from whichever denomination, with the continuing vitality of Christianity in a changing world.
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Theology of Transformation is both a systematic and a practical theology of active discipleship and vocation which, as a renewal of Christology, has implications across the full range of theological topics. Contemporary Christian theology needs to reflect science in pointing to the universal primacy of action in human life and experience.
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I: FOUNDATIONS: THEOLOGICAL RE-ORIENTATION ; II: CHURCH AND LIFE: CHRIST IN US ; III: SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION: NEWNESS OF WORLD
Brings together systematic and practical theology in order to offer a richer doctrinal and philosophical version of active Christian discipleship
Uses contemporary science to breathe life into traditional theological positions, which is important for Christian education
Provides a new theology of vocation, a resource for training in all forms of Christian ministry
As a work of fundamental Christology, this is also a new ecumenical theology, offering new resources for theological understanding between denominations on the basis of the active Christian life
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Oliver Davies is Professor of Christian Doctrine at King's College London and has researched, taught or been Visiting Professor at the Gregorian in Rome, University of Virginia, USA, University of Cologne, Germany, University of St Petersburg, Russia, and most recently Renmin University of China, Beijing. He has written extensively on medieval mystical literature, especially Meister Eckhart. He is originally from South Wales, and has published also on the
Christian literature of medieval Wales.
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Brings together systematic and practical theology in order to offer a richer doctrinal and philosophical version of active Christian discipleship
Uses contemporary science to breathe life into traditional theological positions, which is important for Christian education
Provides a new theology of vocation, a resource for training in all forms of Christian ministry
As a work of fundamental Christology, this is also a new ecumenical theology, offering new resources for theological understanding between denominations on the basis of the active Christian life
Les mer
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780199685950
Publisert
2013
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
590 gr
Høyde
240 mm
Bredde
162 mm
Dybde
21 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
286
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