In this Book
- Love's Availing Power: Imaging God, Imagining the World
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
summary
Paul R. Sponheim explains God's willingness to accept risks in creating human freedom. Sponheim presents an understanding of God's power at work in the lives of creatures, encouraging relationships and inspiring activity on behalf of creation. Sponheim's formulation of freedom in relationship—born at the intersection of existential theology and process thought—provides a way between the extremes of individualism and a homogenizing that obscures the reality and responsibility of the individual. The power of love is not dominating coercion but a power that avails and helps to accomplish a truly human life.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. 2-7
- Introduction
- pp. 1-10
- 1: Imaging God's Love in Freedom
- pp. 11-30
- 2: Imaging the World in Relation
- pp. 31-52
- 3: To Believe, Facing Finitude
- pp. 53-74
- 4: To Live, Against Evil
- pp. 75-96
- Conclusion
- pp. 119-132
- Name/Subject Index
- pp. 175-182
- Scripture Index
- pp. 183-184
Additional Information
ISBN
9781451415728
Related ISBN(s)
9780800698218
MARC Record
OCLC
828424803
Pages
192
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No