| God and the World: A Study in the Thought of Alfred North Whitehead and Karl Barth Contributor(s): Welker, Michael (Editor), Cootsona, Gregory (Author) |
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ISBN: 3631373902 ISBN-13: 9783631373903 Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W OUR PRICE: $83.79 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christian Theology - Systematic - Philosophy - Religion | Philosophy |
| Dewey: 231.709 |
| Series: Internationale Theologie / International Theology |
| Physical Information: 228 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In order to understand God and the world in this postmodern age, Gregory S. Cootsona analyzes two seminal twentieth-century thinkers: the scientist and philosopher, Alfred North Whitehead, and the theologian, Karl Barth. Whitehead began constructing a philosophy of nature in 1910, which developed into a comprehensive metaphysics in his 1929 opus magnum, Process and Reality. Whitehead described the world and God as dynamically interconnected actual entities. Although Barth clearly posited a diastasis between God and the world in the 1922 second edition of Der R merbrief, he discovered a more subtle, christologically-based reconciliation of the world and God in the Church Dogmatics (1932-1968). Though the two differ greatly, several points of comparison can be found. The final chapter presents the challenge and inspiration that twenty-first century theologians can receive from Barth and Whitehead. |
