Quest for the Living God Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God

, by Johnson, Elizabeth A.

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ISBN: 9781441174628 | 1441174621
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Copyright: 7/21/2011

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Concerned with new frontiers in our understanding of God, this book aims to spread the light of theological knowledge, 'ever ancient, ever new'.

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Ancient Story, New Chapter	p. 7
From the Beginning	p. 7
People of the Book	p. 10
Why the Search?	p. 12
Point of Departure: Modern Theism	p. 14
Ground Rules for the Journey	p. 17
High Stakes	p. 22
Gracious Mystery, Ever Greater, Ever Nearer	p. 25
Context: A Secular World	p. 25
Winter	p. 28
Mystery Ever Greater	p. 31
Starting with the Human	p. 31
The Whither of Our Self-transcendence	p. 35
Mystery Ever Nearer	p. 39
Incarnation	p. 39
Grace	p. 41
Holy Mystery	p. 42
Love of God and Neighbor	p. 44
The Crucified God of Compassion	p. 49
Context: Unspeakable Suffering	p. 49
The Failure of Theodicy	p. 51
Three Young Germans	p. 53
The God of Pathos	p. 56
Central Vision	p. 58
The Crucified God	p. 60
The Silent Cry	p. 62
Passion for God	p. 65
Remembering	p. 65
Lamenting	p. 66
Mystical-Political Discipleship	p. 68
Liberating God of Life	p. 70
Context: Wretched Poverty	p. 70
Intuition of Gods Presence and Action	p. 73
Hebrew Bible	p. 74
New Testament	p. 76
The God of Life	p. 78
The True God against Idols	p. 79
The God of Holy Mystery	p. 81
Fully Alive	p. 82
Praxis of Biblical Justice	p. 83
God Acting Womanish
Context: Women's Experience	p. 90
Society	p. 90
Church	p. 91
ôWoman, you are set freeö	p. 92
Diversity	p. 93
Glimpse of Divine Presence and Action	p. 96
The Graven Image	p. 97
Mother God	p. 100
Holy Wisdom	p. 103
A Symphony of Symbols	p. 106
The Danger of Dualism	p. 108
Praxis of Biblical Justice for Women	p. 109
God Who Breaks Chains	p. 113
Context: White Privilege and Racism	p. 113
The Kernel	p. 114
Idea of God	p. 116
Spirituals	p. 117
Black Liberation Theology	p. 122
Womanist Survival Theology A Sharper Focus	p. 128
Praxis of Racial Justice	p. 130
Accompanying God of Fiesta	p. 133
Context: La Lucha	p. 133
Two Conquests	p. 134
Mestizaje/Mixing	p. 135
Popular Religion	p. 136
Doing Theology Latinamente	p. 139
Our Lady	p. 141
The God Who Accompanies	p. 142
Three Principles	p. 145
The God of Fiesta	p. 146
To the Future	p. 149
Generous God of the Religions	p. 153
Context: Religious Pluralism	p. 153
The Back Story in Church Teaching	p. 155
First Question	p. 155
Second Question	p. 156
Third Question	p. 158
Brakes	p. 160
Glimpse of God from Dialogue	p. 161
Dialogue of Life	p. 163
Dialogue of Action	p. 164
Dialogue of Theological Exchange	p. 166
Dialogue of Religious Experience	p. 170
A Bountiful God	p. 174
Jesus Christ	p. 175
One Multifaceted Plan	p. 177
The Dignity of Difference	p. 178
Creator Spirit in the Evolving World	p. 181
The Vivifier	p. 181
The Natural World	p. 183
Wonder	p. 183
Wasting	p. 185
Divine Presence	p. 187
Continuous Presence	p. 188
The Cruciform Pattern	p. 189
Abiding in the Mode of Promise	p. 190
Divine Agency	p. 191
Chance	p. 193
Grace	p. 196
Cross	p. 196
To Love the Earth	p. 197
Trinity: The Living God of Love	p. 202
The Point	p. 202
History of a Breach	p. 203
The Point, Again	p. 209
Rooted in the Experience of Salvation	p. 210
Spoken Allusively	p. 211
Person	p. 211
Numbers One and Three	p. 213
Expressed in Concepts of Our Day	p. 214
The Theological Inflection	p. 216
The Christological Inflection	p. 217
The Pneumatological Inflection	p. 218
The Point, Yet Again	p. 222
A Most Practical Doctrine	p. 222
Epilogue	p. 226
Index	p. 229
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