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1 online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
The legacies of Thomas Aquinas and Karl Barth remain influential for contemporary theologians, who have increasingly put them into conversation on debated questions over analogy and the knowledge of God. However, little explicit dialogue has occurred between their theologies of God. This book offers one of the first extended analyzes of this fundamental issue, asking how each theologian seeks to confess in fact and in thought God's qualitative distinctiveness in relation to creation. Wittman first examines how they understand the correspondence and distinction between God's being and external acts within an overarching concern to avoid idolatry. Second, he analyzes the kind of relation God bears to creation that follows from these respective understandings. Despite many common goals, Aquinas and Barth ultimately differ on the subject matter of theological reason with consequences for their ability to uphold God's distinctiveness consistently. These mutually informative issues offer some important lessons for contemporary theology. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title page -- Imprints page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Note on Citations and Translations -- Introduction -- 1 Confessing That God Is God: The Relation between Theology and Economy -- The Problem of Confessing God as God -- The Procedure -- Part I God's Being and Activity According to Thomas Aquinas -- 2 Aquinas on God's Being and Activity -- Approaching Divine Actuality: Formal and Material Objects -- The Ways of God: The Formal Orientation of Theological Inquiry -- The Five Ways and the Acknowledgment of God -- God's Simple Perfection -- Simplicity and Irreducibility -- Perfection and Participation -- Simplicity, Perfection, and the Grammar of Divine Naming -- God Himself: The Material Object of Theological Inquiry -- God's Goodness -- God Himself as God's Blessedness -- Conclusion -- 3 Aquinas on the Creative Act and God's Relation to Creation -- Creative Causality and the Question of God's Self-Correspondence -- The Principle of Creation -- Divine Operations and Creation -- Trinity and Creation -- The End of Creation -- The Order of God's Self-Correspondence -- God's SelfCorrespondence as Benefit -- The Relation of Creation -- What God's Relation to Creation Is Not -- God, Relations, and the Limits of Understanding -- Conclusion -- Part II God's Being in Act According to Karl Barth -- 4 Barth on God's Being in Act -- The Theological Approach to Divine Actuality -- Necessity and Decision: The Formal Orientation of Theological Understanding -- Anselm and the Necessity of the Objects of Faith -- Act, Being, and the Necessity of God's Decision -- Loving in Freedom: The Material Object of Theological Understanding -- God's Loving -- God's Freedom -- Conclusion: Theology and Economy -- 5 God's SelfCorrespondence and Barth's Critique of Nominalism. |
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Correspondence as Analogy and Dialectic -- Analogy as Correspondence of Form and Content -- Dialectic and the Movement of God's Self-Correspondence -- The Simplicity of God's SelfCorrespondence in Christ -- 6 Barth on the Electing God's Relation to Creation -- The Decree's Necessity and the Question of God's Self-Correspondence -- The Decree's Form and Content as God's Internal Activity -- Immanent Activity and the Decree in Protestant Scholasticism -- Immanent Activity, Divine Constancy, and Self-Determination -- The Decree's Form and Content as Christ's Election -- The Decree's Christological Objectivity -- The Teleology of God's Self-Correspondence -- Conclusion: God's Relation to Creation -- Conclusion -- 7 Confessing God as God -- Actuality and Theological Reason -- Being and Activity -- God's Self-Correspondence -- God's Self-Consistency -- Relation and the Confession of God -- Bibliography -- 1. Works by Thomas Aquinas -- 2. Works by Karl Barth -- 3. Literature Referenced or Cited -- Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
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Barth, Karl, 1886-1968.
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Barth, Karl, 1886-1968 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdGRxvYYCwH4xbVkHJbh3 |
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Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJyMkPRmyFpxV4XVwgRVG3 |
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God (Christianity)
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Creation.
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creating (artistic activity) |
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creation (doctrinal concept) |
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RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- General. |
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Creation |
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God (Christianity) |
| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781108470674 |
| ISBN |
9781108593755 (electronic bk.) |
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1108593755 (electronic bk.) |
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9781108556927 (ebook) |
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1108556922 (ebook) |
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9781108470674 (hardback) |
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9781108456388 (paperback) |
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