Quest for the living God : mapping frontiers in the theology of God

Quest for the living God Mapping frontiers in the theology of God

Elizabeth A. Johnson, 1941-

Book - 2007

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Subjects
God (Christianity)
Published
New York : Continuum 2007.
Language
English
Main Author
Elizabeth A. Johnson, 1941- (-)
Edition
Pbk. ed
Physical Description
xiii, 234 p. ; 23 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN
9781441174628
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Ancient Story, New Chapter
  • From the Beginning
  • People of the Book
  • Why the Search?
  • Point of Departure: Modern Theism
  • Ground Rules for the Journey
  • High Stakes
  • 2. Gracious Mystery, Ever Greater, Ever Nearer
  • Context: A Secular World
  • Winter
  • Mystery Ever Greater
  • Starting with the Human
  • The Whither of Our Self-transcendence
  • Mystery Ever Nearer
  • Incarnation
  • Grace
  • Holy Mystery
  • Love of God and Neighbor
  • 3. The Crucified God of Compassion
  • Context: Unspeakable Suffering
  • The Failure of Theodicy
  • Three Young Germans
  • The God of Pathos
  • Central Vision
  • The Crucified God
  • The Silent Cry
  • Passion for God
  • Remembering
  • Lamenting
  • Mystical-Political Discipleship
  • 4. Liberating God of Life
  • Context: Wretched Poverty
  • Intuition of Gods Presence and Action
  • Hebrew Bible
  • New Testament
  • The God of Life
  • The True God against Idols
  • The God of Holy Mystery
  • Fully Alive
  • Praxis of Biblical Justice
  • 5. God Acting Womanish
  • Context: Women's Experience
  • Society
  • Church
  • ôWoman, you are set freeö
  • Diversity
  • Glimpse of Divine Presence and Action
  • The Graven Image
  • Mother God
  • Holy Wisdom
  • A Symphony of Symbols
  • The Danger of Dualism
  • Praxis of Biblical Justice for Women
  • 6. God Who Breaks Chains
  • Context: White Privilege and Racism
  • The Kernel
  • Idea of God
  • Spirituals
  • Black Liberation Theology
  • Womanist Survival Theology A Sharper Focus
  • Praxis of Racial Justice
  • 7. Accompanying God of Fiesta
  • Context: La Lucha
  • Two Conquests
  • Mestizaje/Mixing
  • Popular Religion
  • Doing Theology Latinamente
  • Our Lady
  • The God Who Accompanies
  • Three Principles
  • The God of Fiesta
  • To the Future
  • 8. Generous God of the Religions
  • Context: Religious Pluralism
  • The Back Story in Church Teaching
  • First Question
  • Second Question
  • Third Question
  • Brakes
  • Glimpse of God from Dialogue
  • Dialogue of Life
  • Dialogue of Action
  • Dialogue of Theological Exchange
  • Dialogue of Religious Experience
  • A Bountiful God
  • Jesus Christ
  • One Multifaceted Plan
  • The Dignity of Difference
  • 9. Creator Spirit in the Evolving World
  • The Vivifier
  • The Natural World
  • Wonder
  • Wasting
  • Divine Presence
  • Continuous Presence
  • The Cruciform Pattern
  • Abiding in the Mode of Promise
  • Divine Agency
  • Chance
  • Grace
  • Cross
  • To Love the Earth
  • 10. Trinity: The Living God of Love
  • The Point
  • History of a Breach
  • The Point, Again
  • Rooted in the Experience of Salvation
  • Spoken Allusively
  • Person
  • Numbers One and Three
  • Expressed in Concepts of Our Day
  • 1. The Theological Inflection
  • 2. The Christological Inflection
  • 3. The Pneumatological Inflection
  • The Point, Yet Again
  • A Most Practical Doctrine
  • Epilogue
  • Index

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