Bodies Inhabiting the World - Scandinavian Creation Theology and the Question of Home

Fourteen theologians consider what it means to have a home in the world. Drawing on and also critically engaging with Scandinavian creation theology, they explore how we are at home (or are threatened with its opposite) in one's own skin, dwelling, community, or even the cosmos writ large.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Belonging, Comfort and Delight: An Invitation to Home and SCT, Derek R. Nelson
Part I: Home and Creation: Place, Journey and Arrival
Chapter 1: Home and Creation Dynamics, Bengt Kristensson Uggla
Chapter 2: Living on Borrowed Ground: Inhabitation as Lived Creation Theology, Mary Emily Briehl Duba,
Chapter 3: Coming Home to God: Procession and Return in Pseudo-Dionysius and Marguerite Porete, Ryan McAnnally-Linz
Chapter 4: Pilgrim's Homecoming, Svein Aage Christoffersen,
Part II: Homes, Bodies and Society
Chapter 5: The Body as Home and Horizon, Allen G. Jorgenson
Chapter 6: Who Does Not Want to Have a Family? Home and Family, Reality and Ideal, Elisabeth Gerle
Chapter 7: Home Is Where Trust Is: Exilic Existence and Theological Trust Culture in Luther and Løgstrup, Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa
Chapter 8: Expectations of a Second-Skin Dwelling: Some Theo-political Reflections on the Significance of Homes, Trygve Wyller
Chapter 9: Ordinary Lives and the Home as a Safe Space, Else Marie Wiberg Pedersen
Part III: Cosmos as Home
Chapter 10: Deep Inhabitations: Home and Cosmos in Scandinavian Creation Theology, Niels Henrik Gregersen
Chapter 11: At Home in the Universe? Jakob Wolf
Chapter 12: At Home in the Cosmos, Ted Peters
Chapter 14: Embodying Creation and Gospel: Thinking With and After Gustaf Wingren, Lois Malcom
About the Contributors

About the author

Edited by Derek R. Nelson; Niels Henrik Gregersen and Bengt Kristensson Uggla - Contributions by Svein Aage Christoffersen; Mary Emily Briehl Duba; Elisabeth Gerle; Niels Henrik Gregersen; Allen G. Jorgenson; Lois Malcolm; Ryan McAnnally-Linz; Derek R. Ne

Product details

• Authors: Derek Gregersen Nelson, Derek R. Gregersen Nelson
• Assisted by: Niels Henrik Gregersen (Editor), Bengt Kristensson Uggla (Editor), Derek R. Nelson (Editor), Nelson Derek R. (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.11.2023
• EAN: 9781666931433
• ISBN: 978-1-66693-143-3
• No. of pages: 244
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Religious writings, prayers, songbooks, religious meditations; RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Christian life & practice, Relating to Christian people & groups, RELIGION / Christian Living / General, RELIGION / Christian Living / Social Issues, Christian social thought & activity, Religious social & pastoral thought & activity