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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Faith, Freedom, and the Christian Act
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780191509469
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Oxford University Press Academic UK
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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