God and Creation in Christian Theology - Tyranny and Empowerment?

Informationen zum Autor Kathryn Tanner is Frederick Marquand Professor of Systematic Theology at Yale Divinity School. She is the author of numerous books, including Jesus, Humanity, and the Trinity; Economy of Grace; Theories of Culture; and Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism. Klappentext How are God and creatures related? How can one reconcile the sovereigntyand power of God with creatures' capacity to act freely? Kathryn Tanner's important and original work seeks an answer in the featuresand limits of traditional Christian discourse. Her search for a unique kernal orregulative dimension of the Christian doctrine of God-world relations leadsher to identify in the tradition an operative "grammar" of meaningful theological discourse that not only informs the past but can guide the future.

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• Authors: Associate Professor of Theology Divinity School Kathryn (University of Chicago Yale Divinity School Tanner, Kathryn Tanner
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Pub
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2006
• EAN: 9780800637378
• ISBN: 978-0-8006-3737-8
• No. of pages: 196
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous