In this Book
- The Mystery and Agency of God: Divine Being and Action in the World
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
summary
There are two philosophical commitments requisite to Christian belief: that God is the ultimate mystery and that God is present and active in the world and therefore accessible to creatures. Attempting to avoid the trappings of a radical distantiation on the one hand, and the immanent collapse of God and world on the other, Frank Kirkpatrick argues for an underdeveloped theory of agency and action that preserves the mystery of God while providing a philosophically robust account of discernible, personal divine action in created time and space. Drawing on the often neglected philosophical work of thinkers like John Macmurray, Raymond Tallis, and Edward Pols, Kirkpatrick proposes a way around the stalemates that have stymied the attempt to think divine agency coherently. This is then brought into conversation with systematic theology, where it is critically tested by, and critiques, accounts in Barth, Pannenberg, Torrance, Jenson, and the recent work of Kevin Hector.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xviii-xix
- Introduction
- pp. 1-22
- 1 Otherness and Oneness
- pp. 23-60
- 5 How Can God Act in the World?
- pp. 109-128
- 7 Coda on the Mystery of God as Agent
- pp. 151-154
- Bibliography
- pp. 155-160
Additional Information
ISBN
9781451479775
MARC Record
OCLC
880354736
Pages
192
Launched on MUSE
2014-05-21
Language
English
Open Access
No