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Informationen zum Autor Oliver Davies was a lector at the University of Cologne (1982-84). His work as a translator includes Beguine Spirituality: An Anthology, edited by Fiona Bowie (1989). Klappentext Theological tradition has lost its sense of the created nature of the world! leading to a complete break between the way we know God and the world. The Johannine tradition of creation through the Word and a Eucharistic semiotic of Christ as the embodied creative speech of God serve to reintegrate Christian cosmology. This book sets out "a new understanding" of reality! as encountered in and through Jesus Christ! and explores new modes of ecclesial reasoning. Zusammenfassung Theological tradition has lost sight of the created-ness of the world! separating knowledge of God and the world. This book works towards the reintegration of Christian cosmology! via the Johannine tradition of creation through the Word and a Eucharistic semiotic of Christ as the embodied creative speech of God. Inhaltsverzeichnis INTRODUCTION: THE cOSMOLOGICAL IMPERATIVE; Part I. AN ARCHAEOLOGY oF CREATEDNESS: 1. The architecture of createdness; 2. The metaphysics of createdness; 3. Cosmological fragments; Part II. Scriptural Cosmology: 4. Speech revealed; 5. Spirit and letter; 6. Voice and sacrifice; Part III. Eucharistic Wisdom: 7. The abundant real; 8. Wisdom of the flesh; 9. Eucharistic reasoning; Conclusion: Cosmology and the theological imagination.
