Rowan Williams

Christ the Heart of Creation (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In this wide-ranging book, Rowan Williams argues that what we say about Jesus Christ is key to understanding what Christian belief says about creator and creation overall.

Through detailed discussion of texts from the earliest centuries to the present day, we are shown some of the various and subtle ways in which Christians have discovered in their reflections on Christ the possibility of a deeply affirmative approach to creation, and a set of radical insights in ethics and politics as well.

Throughout his life, Rowan Williams has been deeply influenced by thinkers of the Eastern Christian tradition as well as Catholic and Anglican writers. This book draws on insights from Eastern Christianity, from the Western Middle Ages and from Reformed thinkers, from Calvin to Bonhoeffer - as well as considering theological insights sparked by philosophers like Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein.

Christ the Heart of Creation concerns fundamental issues for Christian belief and Williams tackles them head-on: he writes with pellucid clarity and shows his gift for putting across what are inevitably complex ideas to a wide audience.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472945532
• Artikelnr.: 54815834

Autorenporträt

Rowan Williams is a former Archbishop of Canterbury and was until 2020 Master of Magdalene College at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of many books, including Looking East in Winter, Holy Living, and The Edge of Words, published by Bloomsbury Continuum. He lives in Cardiff and continues to broadcast, preach and lecture internationally. In 2022, he gave the second of the BBC's centenary Reith Lectures.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements Preface Introduction: Beginning the Middle (Ages):
Aquinas's Christological Vision 1 Jesus Christ: Infinite Act and Finite
Embodiment 2 Summarizing a Tradition: The Christology of Thomas Aquinas 3
The Unity of Christ 4 Transforming Humanity: Christ as the Ground of
Communion PART ONE 1.1 Formulating the Question: From Paul to Augustine 1
New Testament Origins: History, Faith and Narrative 2 From Paul to Nicaea:
The Logos and the Flesh 3 Towards Chalcedon 4 A Latin Voice: Augustine on
the Unity of Christ 1.2 Refining the Vocabulary: The Contribution of Early
Byzantine Theology 1 Chalcedon and its Aftermath 2 Terminological
Developments: Leontius of Byzantium and Leontius of Jerusalem 3 Maximus the
Confessor: Christology and the Reconciled Cosmos 4 A Byzantine Synthesis:
John of Damascus 5 The Story So Far PART TWO 2.2 Loss and Recovery: Calvin
and the Re-formation of Christology 1 Dismantling Aquinas: The Later
Medieval Discussion 2 The Catholic Calvin: A Theological Tradition Renewed
3 A New Diversity: The Varieties of Protestant Christology 2.2 Christ,
Creation and Community: Christology in the Shadow of Antichrist 1 Barth,
Bonhoeffer and the Legacy of Protestant Orthodoxy 2 Bonhoeffer's
Christology Lectures 3 Christology, Ethics and Politics: Discourses of
Transformation Conclusion: Christ, the Heart of Creation; The Tension in
Metaphysics and Theology Appendix: Concluding (Unethological?) Postscript:
Wittgenstein, Kierkegaard and Chalcedon Index