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Zusatztext In his foreword, Rowan Williams remarks that wrestling with the questions at issue in this book is a sine qua non of methodologically rigorous Christian theology. By exposing us afresh to these fundamental questions, Gallaher's instructive and erudite study invites us to renewed seriousness in our thinking about the ratio of divine love, grace and freedom at the heart of the Christian gospel of salvation. Informationen zum Autor Dr Brandon Gallaher is Lecturer of Systematic and Comparative Theology at the University of Exeter. Klappentext 0 Zusammenfassung A study of concepts of freedom and necessity in relation to the Trinity in the work of three theologians: the Russian Orthodox Sergii Bulgakov (1871-1944), the Swiss Protestant Karl Barth (1886-1968), and the Swiss Roman Catholic Hans Urs von Balthasar (1908-1988). Inhaltsverzeichnis References and Abbreviations Introduction: The Absolute Freedom of God as Mystery and 'Problematic' 1: Freedom and Necessity as a Trinitarian Mystery and 'Problematic' 2: Divine Freedom--A Dialectical Approach: From Freedom to Necessity--The Shape of a 'Problematic' (A) 3: Divine Freedom--A Dialectical Approach: From Necessity to Freedom--The Shape of a 'Problematic' (B) Part I: Part I: God as both Absolute and Absolute-Relative in Sergii Bulgakov 4: 'Sophiological Antinomism'--Sergii Bulgakov's debt to and Critique of Vladimir Solov'ev 5: God as Absolute and Absolute-Relative in Bulgakov: Theological Antinomy in the Doctrine of God 6: Divine Freedom and the Need of God for Creation Part II: Divine Self-Determination in Jesus Christ in Karl Barth 7: Trinity and the Doctrine of Election in Karl Barth 8: Trinity, Freedom, and Necessity in Karl Barth: A Dialectical Approach Part III: Jesus Christ and the Trinitarian Appropriation of the Dialectic of Freedom and Necessity in Hans Urs von Balthasar 9: The Metaphysics of Love: Four Steps 10: The Trinity, Creation, and Freedom: More on the Fourth Step 11: Christ, Creation, and Divine Possibilities--'Sheltered within' the Trinity Conclusion 12: Concluding Unsystematic Systematic Postscript Bibliography ...
