Few ideas have excited greater interest among theologians in recent decades than the idea of 'participation': the idea that everything comes from, and depends upon, God, in a way that invites use of the language of sharing, or of an exemplar and its images. This book is an extensive and cohesive exploration of this theme to date.
Few ideas have excited greater interest among theologians in recent decades than the idea of 'participation': the idea that everything comes from, and depends upon, God, in a way that invites use of the language of sharing, or of an exemplar and its images. This book is an extensive and cohesive exploration of this theme to date.
Andrew Davison is Starbridge Lecturer in Theology and Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge, and fellow in theology at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. His previous books include The Love of Wisdom: An Introduction to Philosophy for Theologians(2013), Why Sacraments? (2013), and Blessing (2014).
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Part I. Participation and Causation: 1. By and from God: efficient causation and God as the origin and agent of creation 2. Causes and the Trinity: 'from Him and through Him and to Him are all things' 3. Not out of God: God is not the material cause for creation 4. After God's likeness: formal causation and creaturely characterfulness 5. To and for God: final causation and God as the origin and goal of creation Part II. The Language of Participation and Language as Participation: 6. Characterising participation 7. Analogy: participation in being and language Part III. Participation and the Theological Story: 8. Participation and christology 9. Participation and creaturely action 10. Evil as the failure of participation 11. Redemption I: restoration and union 12. Redemption II: justification, merit and transformation Part IV. Participation and the Shape of Human Life: 13. Truth: knowing and the lucidity of things 14. Beauty: praying and loving 15. Goodness: ethics Conclusion: participation, relation and common life.
Part I. Participation and Causation: 1. By and from God: efficient causation and God as the origin and agent of creation 2. Causes and the Trinity: 'from Him and through Him and to Him are all things' 3. Not out of God: God is not the material cause for creation 4. After God's likeness: formal causation and creaturely characterfulness 5. To and for God: final causation and God as the origin and goal of creation Part II. The Language of Participation and Language as Participation: 6. Characterising participation 7. Analogy: participation in being and language Part III. Participation and the Theological Story: 8. Participation and christology 9. Participation and creaturely action 10. Evil as the failure of participation 11. Redemption I: restoration and union 12. Redemption II: justification, merit and transformation Part IV. Participation and the Shape of Human Life: 13. Truth: knowing and the lucidity of things 14. Beauty: praying and loving 15. Goodness: ethics Conclusion: participation, relation and common life.
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