Winds of the Spirit

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ISBN: 9780664254438 | 0664254438
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 8/1/1994

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Theology, if it is to be a dynamic force in the world and not a lifeless relic, needs to be a continual process of reinterpretation, says Peter Hodgson. This sweeping reconstruction of theology in the postmodern period is a return to the process of continual theological revisioning through a systematic theology that has seemingly been abandoned by postmodern thinkers.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Thinking Theologically	p. 3
A Definition of Theology	p. 3
Ways of Thinking: Interpretation and Appropriation	p. 10
The Resources of Theology	p. 19
Sources	p. 19
Norms (Criteria)	p. 27
Authorities	p. 28
The Dimensions of Theology	p. 31
Historical Theology: Scripture, Tradition, Religions, Culture	p. 32
Practical Theology: Ecclesial Community and Emancipatory Praxis	p. 33
Constructive Theology: The Revelatory Experience of God	p. 35
Revisioning the Constructive Task of Theology	p. 37
"Construction" in a Deconstructive Age	p. 37
Restructuring Constructive Theology	p. 41
The Challenge of Postmodernity: How to Speak Meaningfully of God's Presence and Action in the World	p. 53
A Paradigm Shift: From the Modern to the Postmodern	p. 53
The Absence of God in the Postmodern World	p. 61
A Postmodern "Kairos," Practical Hermeneutics, and Intimations of Presence	p. 64
The Emancipatory Quest: Oppression, Liberation, and the Freedom of God	p. 67
The Experience of God in Latin American and Asian Theologies	p. 68
The Experience of God in African American Theology	p. 72
The Experience of God in Feminist Theology	p. 77
The God of Emancipatory Freedom: The Basileia Vision	p. 83
The Ecological Quest: Cosmos, Life, and the Love of God	p. 86
Postmodern Science and the New Cosmology	p. 86
Ecological Sensibility and the Interrelatedness of Life	p. 92
The God of Life and Love: Primal Eros	p. 94
The Dialogical Quest: Diversity, Plurality, and the Wholeness of God	p. 99
Dialogue and Difference	p. 99
Religious Pluralism and Interreligious Dialogue	p. 101
The God of Unity in Diversity: Toward a Refigured Trinity	p. 108
The Interplay of the Quests and the Revisioning of Theology	p. 112
Faith, Reason, and Revelation	p. 119
Faith: A Distinctive Form of Knowing	p. 120
Revelation: Classical Models and Enlightenment Critiques	p. 121
Reason and the Quest for Revelation	p. 124
The Reality of Revelation	p. 127
The Creative Being of God: The One Who Has Being Absolutely	p. 137
God as "Being-Itself" or "the Power of Being"	p. 138
The Power of Being and Divine Creativity	p. 139
God as "the One Who Has the Power of Being Absolutely"	p. 145
The Triune Figuration of God: The One Who Loves in Freedom	p. 151
The Model as a Whole	p. 151
Identity: The One (God)	p. 158
Difference: Love (World)	p. 163
Mediation: Freedom (Spirit)	p. 168
Creation of the World	p. 175
Creation ex Nihilo	p. 175
The Process of Creation: Biblical and Scientific Perspectives	p. 177
The Creation of Human Beings	p. 179
Nature: Energy, Dimensions, Process, Eros	p. 183
A Holistic Theology of Nature	p. 183
Energy: A Relational-Organic View of Matter	p. 186
Dimensions: Radical Unity and Radical Diversity	p. 188
Process: An Evolving Cosmos	p. 190
Eros: The Presence of God in Nature	p. 193
Human Being: Finite Freedom, Fall, Sin, and Evil	p. 197
Anthropological Challenges	p. 197
Human Being as Finite Freedom	p. 199
Fall: The Transition from Fallibility to Fault	p. 208
Personal and Interpersonal Structures of Sin	p. 215
Cosmic and Social Objectifications of Sin: Structures of Evil	p. 221
Christ Incarnate: The Shape of Redemptive Love	p. 231
The Problem of Interpreting Jesus	p. 231
Postmodern Challenges to Christology	p. 236
The Dilemmas of Classical Christology	p. 243
The Shape of Christ: Revisioning a Theology of Incarnation	p. 249
Christ Risen: The Shape of Reconciliatory Emancipation	p. 267
The Fused Shape of Love and Freedom: Reconciliatory Emancipation	p. 267
The Meaning of "Resurrection"	p. 269
Resurrection and Spiritual Presence	p. 271
The Socialization of Christ in the Ecclesial Community	p. 274
The Spirit and Freedom	p. 276
The Meaning of "Spirit"	p. 276
The Emergence of Spirit	p. 282
The Relations of Spirit	p. 284
The Work of the Spirit: The Liberation of the World, the Perfection of God	p. 291
The Liberation of the World: Ecclesia, Religions, History	p. 293
Ecclesia: Liberated Communion	p. 293
Religions: Plurality and Solidarity	p. 304
History: The Transformation of Futility into Freedom	p. 315
The Perfection of God: Eschatology	p. 324
The Spirit and the Triune Figuration of God	p. 324
The Consummation of the World in God	p. 326
A Personal Epilogue	p. 332
Notes	p. 339
Select Bibliography	p. 395
Index of Biblical References	p. 405
Index of Names and Subjects	p. 407
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