Creation Christ and Culture: Studies in Honour of T. F. Torrance

✍ Scribed by Richard W. A. McKinney (editor)

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 338
• Series: Religious Studies: Bloomsbury Academic Collections
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

With contributions from eminent theologians from different countries, confessions, disciplines and interests, this volume celebrates the immense breadth and influence of T.F. Torrance. Contributors include R. E. Clements, Matthew Black, R. S. Barbour, Alasdair Heron, Dietrich Ritschl, Robert W. Jenson, D.M. MacKinnon, Allan D. Galloway, Jürgen Moltmann, Noel Dermot O’Donoghue, Stanley L. Jaki, Thomas A. Langford, J. Houston, Enda McDonagh, John McIntyre, Eberhard Jüngel, Richard W. A. McKinney, S. W. Sykes, John Heywood Thomas, Lesslie Newbigin.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half-title
Title
Copyright
Preface
Contents
1 Covenant and Canon in the Old Testament
2 The New Creation in I Enoch
3 Creation, Wisdom and Christ
I. Wisdom and Creation
II. Wisdom, Creation and Christ
III. Wisdom, Creation and Jesus
4 'Logos, Image, Son': Some Models and Paradigms in Early Christology
Models and Paradigms
The Logos Paradigm
Alternative Paradigms—Image and son
5 Some Comments on the Background and Influence of Augustine's Lex Aeterna Doctrine
I. Some General Clarifications
II. Developments Prior to Augustine
III. Augustine's lex aeterna Doctrine
IV. Concluding Remarks on Augustine's Influence
6 The Body of God's Presence: A Trinitarian Theory
Preliminaries
The Phenomenon of the Body
Gods and Their Revelations
The Embodiment of the Gospel's God
God's Body
A Trinitarian Theory
7 The Relation of the Doctrines of the Incarnation and the Trinity
APPENDIX A Cullman & Bultmann
APPENDIX B Kung on Divine Impassibility
APPENDIX C
8 Creation and Covenant
CREATION AND COVENANT
COVENANT AND CREATION
What is the relation of this covenant with all creation to the special covenant with Israel?
CREATION AND THE NEW COVENANT
The witness of creation to the Creator
The Creation of Heaven
The Dominion of Man and the Ecological Crisis
9 Creation and Redemption
I. Two Problems
II. Is creation a closed or an open system ?
III. Creation at the beginning
IV. Creative activity in history
V. The Consummation of Creation
VI. The capacity for survival through the living together (Symbiosis) of Man and Nature
10 Creation and Participation
I. Creature and Creator
II. Participation
III. Coincidentia Oppositorum
IV. The Logic of Infinity
V. The Divine Sharing
VI. Creation as a Philosophical Concept
VII. The Metaphysics of Agency
VIII. The Source
11 Theological Aspects of Creative Science
Historical Background
Creative Science
Theological Aspects
12 Authority, Community and Church
Toward a Definition
Authority and Faith
Authority and Historical Change
Community and Church
13 Precepts and Counsels
14 Morality and Prayer
I. Introduction
II. More Recent Understanding of Prayer, Morality and their Relationship in the Roman Catholic Tradition
III. Prayer and Morality in the post-Vatican II Era
IV. From Morality to Prayer: A Reconsideration of the Bond
Conclusion
15 Theology and Method
16 The Truth of Life: Observations on Truth as the Interruption of the Continuity of Life
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17 Historical Relativism, the Appeal to Experience and Theological Reconstruction
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II
III
18 Life After Death: the Christian Doctrine of Heaven
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II
III
19 The Problem of Defining a Theology of Culture with Reference to the Theology of Paul Tillich
20 All in One Place or All of One Sort?
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IV
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