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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798740403321

Autore

Wallace Catherine M.

Titolo

Confronting a controlling God : Christian humanism and the moral imagination / / Catherine M. Wallace

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Eugene, Oregon : , : Cascade Books, , [2016]

©2016

ISBN

1-4982-2894-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (132 pages)

Collana

A confronting fundamentalism book

Disciplina

231

Soggetti

God

Christian humanism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Confronting fundamentalism: the dangerous God of "control and condemn" -- 1967: What the cake said -- God-talk 101: The art that is Christianity -- The Copernican turn of Christian humanism -- Quantum theology: the symbolic character of God-talk -- Theological weirdness (1): the symbolic claim that God is a person -- Poets as theologians: the moral imagination of Christian Humanist tradition -- Moses debates with a burning bush -- I AM v. I WILL BE: translation and the authority of theologians -- Theological weirdness (2): the symbolic claim that God is necessarily impersonal -- What, then, can be said about God?