Love's Availing Power: Imaging God, Imagining the World

Name/Subject Index

175 x ambiguity, 58, 60, 64, 66 as entailed by freedom, 61–62 epistemic distance, 63 uncertainty in change, 59 Anselm, 120 anxiety, 21–23, 98, 131, 137n12, 163n11. See also self of being able, 22, 60, 98 as created, 30 nothing as object, 22 sympathetic antipathy, antipathetic sympathy, 30 apologetics, 126 as ecstatic, 126 free will defense, free process defense, 62 as intensification, comprehension, atonement, 70–72 Arendt, Hannah, 84–85 Aristotle, 33, 39, 64 artificial intelligence, 57 atheism, 60, 63–64. See also panentheism , theism Augustine, Saint, 162n119 Auschwitz, 76, 93 Baker-Fletcher, Karen, 116 Barbour, Ian, 20, 50, 56 beauty, 43–44. See also novelty, order as creation’s telos, 43, 46 Beauvoir, Simone de, 62, 63 becoming, 21, 39, 40–43 continuity in, 4 as creational good, 21 oneself, 12, 21 unison of, 42 Bell’s Theorem, 102 Bellah, Robert, 28 Bernard of Clairvaux, 7 Betcher, Sharon, 113 body, 41–42, 51. See also earth, self functioning in memory, 56 primary in experience, 124 in self’s constitution, 27–28, 101 Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 28, 72–73, 79, 91, 125, 128–29 Borg, Marcus, 81 Bracken, Joseph, 50 Bringle, Mary Louise, 24 Brock, Rita Nakashima, 101 Brown, William, 130 name/suBJeCt index 176 name/suBJeCt index Browning, Don, 87 Brueggemann, Walter, 47, 68, 69 Burtness, James, 90 Cahoone, Lawrence, 122 causality, 32, 102, 168n3 as causal efficacy, 42 efficient, 38, 40–41 final, 38, 40–41 primary, secondary, 38 change, changelessness. See creation, God, transformation choice, 12, 19, 25, 38, 41, 46, 51, 60, 65, 69, 77, 101, 103, 122. See also freedom willing one thing, 17 Christ, 17, 25–26, 37, 68, 71, 78, 80–81, 91, 92, 104–6, 116, 129, 172n54. See also discipleship and atonement, 80, 157nn30–31 as field of force, 81, 157n33 as God incarnate, 7, 35, 81, 116 king and maiden parable, 15–16, 127 nailed to the cross, 80, 81, 99 as pattern and gift, 26 as prototype, 80, 81, 139n45, 157n26 Clayton, Philip, 32, 59 Coakley, Sarah, 88–89 Cobb, John B., Jr., 55, 81, 117 Cohen, Morris, 105, 109 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 67, 68 Come, Arnold, 68 community, 73, 90, 109 complexity. See freedom conversation, 33, 78, 89–91, 117 ending mute suffering, 89 listening, 106 place of reaching disagreement, 90 silence, 106 and transformation, 90 cosmology, cosmic epoch, 32, 46, 49, 112, 142n115, 165n65 God establishing and exemplifying principles, 45 and metaphysics, 112 Creatio ex nihilo. See creation creation, 14, 17, 40, 61. See also free will, free process, religion, science emergence, 20, 117 evolution, 76, 117, 140n50, 168n3 ex nihilo (out of nothing), 14–15, 38, 62, 77, 136n28, 139n40, 140n51, 145n38 finitude, 98–99 in and for freedom, 14 good/not perfect, 19, 27, 121, 156n7 indeterminacy, 61 original and continuing, 43, 57 creativity, 41, 63, 78, 94, 114–15, 173n65. See also creation as ultimate, 40, 165n54 Cuff, Joyce, 14 Cupitt, Don, 6 Darfur, 76, 93 Darwin, Charles, 20 Dawkins, Richard, 3, 60, 64 Dennett, Daniel, 60 Derrida, Jacques, 48, 151n37 Descartes, René, 3, 5 despair, 20, 21, 23–24, 56, 63, 84, 95, 99, 131. See also sin forms of, 24, 69 as masculine, feminine, 24, 141n85 Dewey, John, 28, 67, 68 discipleship, 31. See also Christ dying to, 48–49 and imagination, 69 imitation of Christ, 69 prayer, 16 repentance, 109 two kinds of righteousness, 81 Dykstra, Craig, 68 Dylan, Bob, 66 Earth, 27, 73, 114 care for, 130, 168n104 embodiment, 27 learning from, 116–17 Einstein, Albert, 55, 149n11 enemy, 91–95 loving potential, 93 Epicurus, 61 eschatology, 111–12, 166n74. See also cosmology continuity and discontinuity, 165n65 non posse peccare, 166n77 standing of, 113–14 177 name/suBJeCt index eternal. See eschatology, God, self evil, 6, 8, 37, 60, 91, 97–99, 109–10. See also free will, free process as clear-eyed, 99, 110 moral, 54, 76–77, 94, 100, 156n14 natural, 61, 100 as parasitic, 94 perpetual perishing, 98 evolution. See creation, freedom experience, 3, 4, 41–42 as authority, 36, 41 of causal efficacy, 41 as evidence, 65 of presentational immediacy, 41 of symbolic reference, 41, 42 faith, 9, 24, 29, 54–55, 64, 66, 94, 111, 164n51, 165n52 ambiguous efficacy of, 105–6, 109–10 epistemic distance, 63 fides qua, fides quae, 107–9 living options, 65 notitia, assensus, fiducia, 107 as seeking understanding, 120 as trust, 107, 126 Farley, Edward, 83 fear...