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The Rev'd Dr Ben Quash is Dean and Fellow of Peterhouse, Academic Convenor of the Cambridge Inter-Faith Programme, and Canon Theologian of Coventry Cathedral. The contributors: Dr Rachel Muers, University of Exeter; The Revd Canon John Sweet, University of Cambridge; Dr Anna Williams, University of Cambridge; The Revd Dr Michael B. Thompson, Cambridge Theological Federation; The Revd Dr Angela Tilby, Cambridge Theological Federation; The Revd Dr Michael Ward, University of Cambridge; Dr Janet Martin Soskice, University of Cambridge; Dr Nicholas Adams, University of Edinburgh; Professor Denys Turner, Yale University; The Rev'd Canon Dr Ben Quash, University of Cambridge Klappentext How can theology think and talk about history? Building on the work of the major twentieth-century theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar as well as entering into sharp critical debate with him, this book sets out to examine the value and the potential of a 'theodramatic' conception of history. By engaging in dialogue not only with theologians and philosophers like von Balthasar, Hegel and Barth, but with poets and dramatists such as the Greek tragedians, Shakespeare and Gerard Manley Hopkins, the book makes its theological principles open and indebted to literary forms, and seeks to show how such a theology might be applied to a world intrinsically and thoroughly historical. By contrast with theologies that stand back from the contingencies of history and so fight shy of the uncertainties and openness of Christian existence, this book's theology is committed to taking seriously the God who works in time.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....
