Theology and the Drama of History

Informationen zum Autor Ben Quash is Dean and Fellow of Peterhouse and lectures at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. He is also Convenor of the Cambridge Interfaith Programme. Klappentext A new theological approach to the question of God's role in history. Zusammenfassung How can theology think and talk about history? This book engages in dialogue both with theologians and philosophers like von Balthasar! Hegel and Barth! and with poets and dramatists including Aeschylus! Shakespeare and Gerard Manley Hopkins to develop radical ways of articulating the mystery of divine and human freedom. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Dramatizing theology; 2. Freedom and indifference; 3. Epic history and the question of tragedy; 4. Eschatology and the existential register; 5. Analogy's unaccountable scaffolding; 6. Theodramatics, history and the holy spirit; Postscript.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Quash Ben, Ben Quash, Ben (Peterhouse Quash
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 27.11.2008
• EAN: 9780521090827
• ISBN: 978-0-521-09082-7
• Seiten: 252
• Serien: Cambridge Studies in Christian; Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Religion/Theologie > Christentum; Sachbuch > Philosophie, Religion > Religion: Allgemeines, Nachschlagewerke; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Literary theory