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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813793503321

Autore

Jenson Robert W.

Titolo

Theology as revisionary metaphysics : essays on God and creation / / Robert W. Jenson ; edited by Stephen John Wright

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Eugene, Oregon : , : Cascade Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-63087-380-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 p.)

Disciplina

230.01

Soggetti

Philosophical theology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Modern Protestant theology has tended to shun metaphysics. The philosophical underpinnings of our theological traditions have cracked under the weight of modern scrutiny. Robert Jenson is a theologian who has embraced the critique of inherited metaphysics, but who then finds contained within the gospel itself the basis for further and more specific critiques: the story of Jesus of Nazareth. Jenson argues that the appropriate response of theology to the contemporary situation is not to reject metaphysics, but to develop new and more radical metaphysical proposals. For several decades now, he ha