LEADER 03981nam 2200565 450 001 9910810043403321 005 20230803220837.0 010 $a0-8262-7307-6 035 $a(CKB)2550000001193014 035 $a(EBL)3440845 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001160606 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11648633 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001160606 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11121573 035 $a(PQKB)11232233 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3440845 035 $a(OCoLC)880354455 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse33967 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3440845 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10832651 035 $a(OCoLC)874154831 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001193014 100 $a20140209h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIn search of the triune God $ethe Christian paths of East and West /$fEugene Webb 210 1$aColumbia, Missouri :$cUniversity of Missouri Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (449 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8262-2010-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aDivine sonship in Israel -- The New Testament narrative of son and spirit and its ancient antecedents -- From symbols to the formulation of doctrine in the creeds -- Augustine and a new symbolism for the western God -- The breach between East and West -- The aftermath in the West: God and power -- The aftermath in the East: understanding union with God in Christ -- The great divide. 330 $aUnder the broad umbrella of the Christian religion, there exists a great divide between two fundamentally different ways of thinking about key aspects of the Christian faith. Eugene Webb explores the sources of that divide, looking at how the Eastern and Western Christian worlds drifted apart due both to the different ways they interpreted their symbols and to the different roles political power played in their histories. Previous studies have focused on historical events or on the history of theological ideas. In Search of the Triune God delves deeper by exploring how the Christian East and the Christian West have conceived the relation between symbol and experience. Webb demonstrates that whereas for Western Christianity discussion of the doctrine of the Trinity has tended toward speculation about the internal structure of the Godhead, in the Eastern tradition the symbolism of the Triune God has always been closely connected to religious experience. In their approaches to theology, Western Christianity has tended toward a speculative theology, and Eastern Christianity toward a mystical theology. This difference of focus has led to a large range of fundamental differences in many areas not only of theology but also of religious life. Webb traces the history of the pertinent symbols (God as Father, Son of God, Spirit of God, Messiah, King, etc.) from the Hebrew Bible and New Testament through patristic thinkers and the councils that eventually defined orthodoxy. In addition, he shows how the symbols, interpreted through the different cultural lenses of the East and the West, gradually took on meanings that became the material of very different worldviews, especially as the respective histories of the Eastern and Western Christian worlds led them into different kinds of entanglement with ambition and power. Through this incisive exploration, Webb offers a dramatic and provocative new picture of the history of Christianity. 606 $aTrinity 606 $aGod (Christianity)$xHistory of doctrines 615 0$aTrinity. 615 0$aGod (Christianity)$xHistory of doctrines. 676 $a231.044 700 $aWebb$b Eugene$0700204 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810043403321 996 $aIn search of the triune God$94123310 997 $aUNINA