Theology and the Drama of History

By:

Ben Quash

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine

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How can theology think and talk about history? Building on the work of the major twentieth-century theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar as well as entering into sharp critical debate with him, this book sets out to examine the value and the potential of a 'theodramatic' conception of history. By engaging in dialogue not only with theologians and philosophers like von Balthasar, Hegel and Barth, but with poets and dramatists such as the Greek tragedians, Shakespeare and Gerard Manley Hopkins, the book makes its theological principles open and indebted to literary forms, and seeks to show how such a theology might be applied to a world intrinsically and thoroughly historical. By contrast with theologies that stand back from the contingencies of history and so fight shy of the uncertainties and openness of Christian existence, this book's theology is committed to taking seriously the God who works in time.

Author Biography:

Ben Quash is Dean and Fellow of Peterhouse and lectures at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. He is also Convenor of the Cambridge Interfaith Programme.

Release date Australia

November 27th, 2008

Author

Ben Quash

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Illustrations

Worked examples or Exercises

Pages

252

Series

Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine

Dimensions

152x229x15

ISBN-13

9780521090827

Product ID

2817081

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