Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 454 g
The Essential Nature of Theology
Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 454 g
ISBN: 978-0-7546-5320-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
How, if at all, is religious faith 'true'? The starting point for this book is that traditional Christian theology overvalues the importance of 'correctness'. What really counts far more is 'Honesty'. Not just sincerity or frankness, but Honesty in the sense of a sheer openness to the Other. A set of skills, Andrew Shanks argues, which the church has very much still to learn. True faith in God is faith in Honesty. But theological Honesty has three faces. It stands equally opposed to banality, manipulation, the mere disowning of history. This book thus presents a whole new approach to the doctrine of the Trinity. A fresh stimulus to theological debate at academic, student and more popular levels.
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Chapter 1 Introduction Some Preliminary Definitions; Part I Philosophical Preamble: Contribution to the Phenomenology of Honesty; Chapter 1a The Intrinsic Three-in-Oneness of Radical Honesty, (a): Response to Nietzsche's Critique of Christianity as Being, By Nature, Dishonest; Chapter 2 The Intrinsic Three-in-Oneness of Radical Honesty, (b): Building on Hannah Arendt's Analysis of Totalitarianism; Part II Trinitarian Theology; Chapter 3 Origins of the Dogma; Chapter 4 Historical Evolution of Trinitarian Thought; Chapter 5 The Context for First-Person Theology Today: 'Primal Shakenness' Directly Apprehended; Chapter 6 The Context for Second-Person Theology Today: Clean Evangelism; Chapter 7 The Context for Third-Person Theology Today: Liturgical Proposals; Chapter 8 Conclusion: An Empty Tomb;
