Colin Guntons Trinitarian Theology Of Culture

Author : Andrew Picard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567712303
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colin Gunton’s Trinitarian Theology of Culture written by Andrew Picard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-27 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whilst upholding some of the criticisms of Colin Gunton's work, this incisive book argues that there is a Hauptbriefe in Gunton reception that assumes his early classic works, The One, the Three and the Many and The Promise of Trinitarian Theology (1st ed), are definitive of his project and fail to engage adequately with the progressions in Gunton's later thought. Instead, this book offers a fresh reading of Gunton by giving greater prominence to his later writings, which are centred in the mediation of the Son and the Spirit in creation. Andrew Picard argues that Gunton's trinitarian theology of culture emerges from his later trinitarian theology of mediation, creation, Christology, pneumatology, and ecclesiology. Exploring these doctrinal foci enables an understanding of Gunton's account of faithful human culture as embodied worship; a living sacrifice of praise which contributes to the divine redemption and perfection of creation. It is the church's particular calling to embody such praise through its visible life in community. The study concludes by intersecting Gunton's theology with the social sciences to critique ableism and consider the politics of the church's belonging in community.

Author : Andrew Picard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780567712349
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colin Gunton's Trinitarian Theology of Culture written by Andrew Picard and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book critically engages Colin Gunton's trinitarian theology of culture in the context of modern debates in trinitarian theology, and argues, against critics, that Gunton's trinitarian theology remains defensible and fruitful for contemporary conversations in theology and culture"--

Author : Uche Anizor
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1842278541
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trinity and Humanity written by Uche Anizor and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colin Gunton is regarded by many as one of the most important English theologians of the twentieth century. A prolific writer and creative thinker, Gunton taught at King’s College, London, for over thirty years, until his untimely death in 2003. In this first single-authored introduction to Gunton’s theology, Uche Anizor traces the key theological themes, major contributors, and criticisms of his work. Each chapter provides a synthesis and overview of Gunton’s thought on a particular doctrine or set of doctrines, calling attention to the Trinitarian shape of his theology. In Trinity and Humanity, Anizor provides a handy entrée into the corpus of this major thinker.

Author : Eric G Flett
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
ISBN 13 : 0227900596
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Persons, Powers, and Pluralities written by Eric G Flett and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an intimate conversation with the writings of Thomas F. Torrance, Flett articulates a Trinitarian theology of culture. Torrance's work suggests that Christian assumptions in the areas of God, creation, and humanity had an important influenceupon the development of Western scientific culture. This book develops each of these areas of Torrance's thought in order to articulate a theology of culture rooted in a Christian understanding of God as triune, creation as contingent, and human persons as stewards created in the image of God. Drawn together, these three areas of Torrance's thought suggest that human culture and cultural plurality ultimately originate in the creative action of a triune God, mediated through the creative activity of the human creature as it engages a contingent created order in its attempts to foster human flourishing and to bear embodied witness to its Creator. The result is not only a unique contribution to the emerging secondary material on Torrance's work, but also a contribution to the field of theology of culture as a systematic locus in its own right.

Author : Colin E. Gunton
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 056726582X
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Promise of Trinitarian Theology written by Colin E. Gunton and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2003-10-06 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reissue of a brilliant and accessible introduction to Trinitarian thought. Colin Gunton argues that the theology of the Trinity has profound implications for all dimensions of human life. Central to his work is his argument that the doctrine should offer ways of articulating the being of God and of the world so that we may be better able to live before God and with each other.

Author : Colin E. Gunton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521421843
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The One, the Three and the Many written by Colin E. Gunton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1993-07-29 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study offers a theological analysis of, and response to, the modern world, and is at once a theology of culture and of creation. In the first half of the book, Gunton expounds some of the distinctive and often contradictory features of modern culture. It emerges that modern culture, far from being unique in its difficulties, reflects similar inadequacies in ancient thought. The distinctive pathos of modernity is to be found in one unique feature, namely the displacement of God that is a mark of all realms of life. The roots of the problem are sought beyond the Enlightenment, where they are often located, in the combination of platonism and Christian theology which dominated medieval Christian thought. At the heart of the matter is a deficient - because of an inadequately trinitarian - understanding of creation and creation's God. The second half of the book develops a powerful theology of creation where due weight can be given to both universal and particular, both society and the individual.

Author : Andrew Picard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567673405
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book T&T Clark Handbook of Colin Gunton written by Andrew Picard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The T&T Clark Handbook of Colin Gunton is a theological companion to the study of Gunton's theology, and a resource for thinking about Gunton's importance in modern theology. Each of the essays brings Gunton's depth to a broad range of contemporary theological concerns. The volume unveils cutting-edge Gunton scholarship for a new generation and at the same time enables readers to see the timely significance of Gunton today. Each of the essays not only introduces readers to key themes in the Gunton corpus, but also provides readers with fresh interpretations that are fully conversant with the contemporary theological problems facing the church. Designed as both a guide for students and a reference point for scholars, the companion seeks both to outline the frameworks of key Gunton debates while at all times pushing forward fresh interpretative strategies concerning his thought.

Author : Bradley G Green
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
ISBN 13 : 0227900146
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colin Gunton and the Failure of Augustine written by Bradley G Green and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British systematic theologian Colin Gunton argued that Augustine bequeathed to the West a theological tradition with serious deficiencies. According to Gunton, Augustine's particular construal of the doctrine of God led to fundamental errors and problems in grasping the relationship between creation and redemption, and in rightfully construing a truly Christian ontology. In Colin Gunton and the Failure of Augustine, Bradley G. Green's close reading of Augustine challenges Gunton's understanding. Gunton argued that Augustine's supposed emphasis of the one over the many severed any meaningful link between creation and redemption, contra the theological insights of Irenaeus, and furthermore that because of Augustine's supposed emphasis on the timeless essence of God at the expense of the three real persons, he failed to forge a truly Christian ontology, effectively losing the insights of the Cappadocian Fathers). For all of Gunton's many insights, Green argues that on the contrary, Augustine did not sever the link between creation and redemption, but rather affirmed that the created order is a means of genuine knowledge of God, that the created order is indeed the only means by which redemption is accomplished, that the cross of Christ is the only means by which we can see God, and that the created order is fundamentally oriented toward a telos - redemption. Concerning ontology, Augustine's teaching on the imago Dei, and the prominent role that relationship plays in Augustine's doctrines of man and God, provides the kind of relational Christian ontology that Gunton sought. In short, Green argues, Augustine could have provided Gunton key theological resources in countering the modernity he so rightfully challenged.

Author : Colin E. Gunton
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725217856
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enlightenment & Alienation written by Colin E. Gunton and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN THIS CRITIQUE OF THE LEGACY OF THE Enlightenment for Christian theology, Colin Gunton focuses on the concepts of truth, freedom, and faith. He argues that in these areas the emphasis of Enlightenment thought on knowledge which is observable and objective has alienated us from understanding or believing in whatever cannot be seen or scientifically deduced, and cut us off from reality, form ourselves, and form God. But the trinitarian structure of Christian belief contains within itself the resources to overcome this alienation and achieve an integrated perspective. Gunton finds in the doctrine of the Trinity--especially in Jesus Christ, in whom the mysterious and divine joined the physical and observable--a way to give validity both to scientific frames of thought and to religious belief.

Author : Colin E. Gunton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107493781
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Christian Doctrine written by Colin E. Gunton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-06-19 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Christian doctrine? The fourteen specially commissioned essays in this book serve to give an answer to many aspects of that question. Written by leading theologians from America and Britain, the essays place doctrine in its setting - what it has been historically, and how it relates to other forms of culture - and outline central features of its content. They attempt to answer questions such as 'what has, and does, Christian doctrine teach about God, the creation, the human condition and human behaviour?' and 'what is the part played in Christian doctrine by the Trinity, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit?' New readers will find this an accessible and stimulating introduction to the main themes of Christian doctrine, while advanced students will find a useful summary of recent developments which demonstrates the variety, coherence and intellectual vitality of contemporary Christian thought.