Knowing God by Name

Elizabeth Johnson seeks to develop a way of thinking and speaking about God and the world in panentheistic relation that takes into account feminist concerns and contemporary trends in Trinitarian theology. This book is a critical assessment of Johnson's own feminist methodology and epistemology, her panentheistic relational ontology and her Trinitarian God-talk. It does so in specific relation to aspects of Karl Barth's theology, since Barth is a foil against which Johnson and her colleagues argue for a different way of knowing and naming the Triune God of Christian faith. Due to Karl Rahner's strong influenceJohnson's transcendental epistemology, Christology and Trinitarian theology, Rahner is also brought into the dialogue. This book seeks to continue the conversation by asking what it is that provides the warrants for the Church's speech about the Triune God and how this language is, and is not, like other kinds of symbolic or metaphorical language.