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Theology and the Drama of History

English · Hardback

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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 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.

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Authors Ben Quash, QUASH BEN
Assisted by Daniel W. Hardy (Editor)
Publisher Cambridge University Press ELT
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 11.08.2005
 
EAN 9780521844345
ISBN 978-0-521-84434-5
No. of pages 250
Series Cambridge Studies in Christian
Subject Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity

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