The Creative Suffering of the Triune God: An Evolutionary TheologyOxford University Press, 18.10.2007 - 256 Seiten The global reality of suffering and death has always demanded an authentic theological response and impelled debate concerning Gods relationship to suffering, as well as the conceivability of the suffering of God. The scope and impact of this suffering in the last century have driven this debate to an acute pitch, demanding to know how one can speak rightly of God in view of the suffering that is inherent and inflicted in the cosmos. While in former ages, some looked to an omnipotent and impassible deus ex machina in answer to this question, many contemporary theologians have revised their understanding of God in relation to the world. With these theologians, Gloria Schaab proposes that a viable response to cosmic suffering is the recognition that the triune Christian God participates in the very sufferings of the cosmos itself. She sets her argument within theology and science dialogue and specifically within the work of scientist-theologian Arthur Peacocke. Informed by the understandings of evolutionary science, grounded within a panentheistic paradigm of the God-world relationship, and rooted within the Christian theological tradition, this work contends that the understanding of the Triune God as intimately involved with the suffering of the cosmos is viable and efficacious in view of the suffering of the cosmos and its creatures. It develops a female procreative model of the creative suffering of the Triune God, an ecological ethics based on the midwife model of care, and a pastoral model of threefold differentiation of suffering in God as steps toward Christian praxis in response to the mystery of God within the pain, suffering, and death of cosmic existence and human experience. |
Inhalt
2 Scientific Foundations of an Evolutionary Theology | 39 |
3 Knowing and Naming in Theology and Science | 63 |
4 Divine Being and Becoming | 97 |
5 Evolution and Divine Suffering | 141 |
6 Feminist Ecological and Pastoral Explorations | 169 |
Speaking Rightly of God? | 193 |
Notes | 197 |
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The Creative Suffering of the Triune God: An Evolutionary Theology Gloria L. Schaab Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2007 |
The Creative Suffering of the Triune God: An Evolutionary Theology Gloria L. Schaab Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2007 |
The Creative Suffering of the Triune God: An Evolutionary Theology Gloria L. Schaab Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2007 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
According to Peacocke affirmation anthropic principle Arthur Peacocke attributes autonomy Barbour biblical biological capacity causal chance and law Christian tradition classical classical theism conceived concept concerning contends cosmic cosmos creation creative processes creative suffering Creator critical realism death divine suffering ecological emergence entities epistemology ethical evil evolution evolutionary process evolutionary science evolutionary theology existence experience fecundity female freedom God-world relationship God’s Godself Hence human person Ian Barbour Ibid images immanent incarnate inference insights interaction italics Jesus the Christ John Polkinghorne Jon Sobrino Ju¨rgen Moltmann liberation McFague Moreover mystery nature notion omnipotence omniscience one’s ontological pain panentheism panentheistic model panentheistic paradigm panentheistic-procreative pantheism pastoral efficacy Peacocke’s perspective process theology procreative proposals quantum quantum indeterminacy reality relation revealed Sallie McFague science and theology scientific scientists self-creativity self-limitation Shekhinah Sobrino Sophia structures Summa Theologiae theism theologians theory transcendence and immanence Trinity Triune Triune God understanding unfolding universe