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In the well-worn debates about religious pluralism and the theology of religions there have been many different rubrics used to account for, comprehend, or engage with the religious other. This book is chiefly a work of Christian theology and seeks to bring the doctrine of creation and the theology of religions into dialogue.
List of contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1: Creation and the Transcategorial Phenomenal
- 2: The Creaturely View
- 3: The sky is not the limit: Bonhoeffer and Creation
- 4: Creation, Action and Sabbath
- 5: Logos and Sophia
- 6: Creation, Sacrament and Liturgy
- 7: The Shared Making of Signs
- 8: Creational Politics
- 9: Towards a Creational Theology of Religions
- Bibliography
About the author
Dr David Cheetham is Reader in Philosophical Theology at the University of Birmingham, UK. He has published widely in the field of religion and aesthetics, contemporary theology and inter-religious relations. From 2016-20 he was Head of the School of Philosophy, Theology and Religion at the University of Birmingham. His key outputs include John Hick (Ashgate 2003 [Routledge 2016]); (ed. with D. Pratt and D. Thomas), Understanding Interreligious Relations (Oxford University Press, 2013), Ways of Meeting and the Theology of Religions (Ashgate 2013 [Routledge, 2016]).
Summary
In the well-worn debates about religious pluralism and the theology of religions there have been many different rubrics used to account for, comprehend, or engage with the religious other. This book is chiefly a work of Christian theology and seeks to bring the doctrine of creation and the theology of religions into dialogue.
Additional text
It is a welcome, eirenic rapprochement between analytic and phenomenological approaches to theology and the philosophy of religion dealing with questions of the plurality of religions.
