Trinity, Freedom and Love: An Engagement with the Theology of Eberhard Jüngel Contributor(s): Malysz, Piotr (Author) |
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ISBN: 0567039714 ISBN-13: 9780567039712 Publisher: T&T Clark OUR PRICE: $44.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Theology - Systematic - Religion | Spirituality |
Dewey: 231.044 |
Series: T&t Clark Studies in Systematic Theology |
Physical Information: 0.54" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.80 lbs) 256 pages |
Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
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Publisher Description: By critically engaging Eberhard Jüngel's doctrine of the Trinity, this volume makes a broader, constructive contribution to contemporary trinitarian thought.The argument centers on the question - posed by the inconsistencies uncovered in Jüngel's doctrine of God - of how one can assert both divine freedom and the inter-subjectivity of God's trinitarian self-determination. Can one maintain God's freedom in the interest of divine spontaneity and creativity, while remaining committed to inter-subjective vulnerability which the Cross entails as an event of divine love? Malysz suggests that a resolution to this problem lies in a logic of divine freedom, which, next to the trinitarian logic of love, constitutes a different and simultaneous mode of trinitarian relationality. To develop this logic, Malysz draws on Jüngel's understanding of human freedom as rooted in the elemental interruption of the self-securing subject. Malysz thus not only brings Jüngel's view of divine freedom into correspondence with the anthropological effects that Jüngel ascribes to it, but, above all, offers an imaginative, new way of closely integrating the doctrine of God and theological anthropology. |