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Zusatztext The order of the world to God is a basic theme of Christian vocation and so of theology. Getting it wrong distorts our self-understanding and service. Drawing superb and sometimes startling lessons from Aquinas, Kierkegaard, and others, Paul DeHart gets it right. This book is smart, learned, and wise. Informationen zum Autor Paul J. DeHart is Professor of Theology at Vanderbilt University, USA. Vorwort This book explores the implications of the classic Christian doctrine of creation from nothing ( ex nihilo ). Zusammenfassung This is a creative scholarly argument revisiting the substance, understanding, and implications of the doctrine of creation ex nihilo for contemporary theology and philosophy. Paul J. DeHart examines the special mode of divine transcendence (God's infinity) and investigates areas where accepting an infinite God presents challenging questions to Christian theology. He discusses what "saving knowledge" or "faith" would have to look like when confronted by such an unlimited conception of deity, and ponders how the doctrine of God's trinity can be brought into harmony with radical notions of transcendence, as well as ways the doctrine of creation itself is threatened when the radical otherness of the creator’s mind is not maintained. DeHart engages with a diverse range of figures: Jean-Luc Marion, Schleiermacher, Kierkegaard, Kathryn Tanner, John Milbank and Rowan Williams, to illustrate his conviction. This volume deals with deep conceptual issues, indicating that creation ex nihilo remains a lively topic in contemporary theology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part One: Cultus Mentis: Accommodating the Endless Object 1. Can Pascal Forgive Descartes? God’s Ambiguous Infinity 2. Absolute Dependence or Infinite Desire: Subjective Alignment with God in Schleiermacher and Kierkegaard 3. “The Passage from Mind to Heart is So Long . . .” Kierkegaard’s Repetition and the Ontology of Agency 4. f(S)I/s :The Instance of Pattern in Kathryn Tanner’s Theology Part Two: Dogma and the Infinite God: Trinity, Christology, Grace 5. On the Contrary: Thomistic Second Thoughts on Eberhard Jüngel 6. John Milbank’s Divine Comedy: Not Funny Enough Part Three: Aquinas and God’s Ideas: The Impossible Mind of the Creator 7: “Nothing in this book is true, but it’s exactly how things are” 8. Eclipse of the Divine Mind: The Divine Ideas as Anti-Platonic Epistemology 9. The Creature Makes Itself: The Divine Ideas as Anti-Platonic Soteriology 10. Improvising the Paradigms: The Divine Ideas as Anti-Platonic Ontology BibliographyIndex...
