The Creativity of God

World, Eucharist, Reason (Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine)

Bibliographic Data

ID6561636
AuthorsOliver Davies (0000-0001-6151-7298)
Year2004
Pages222
Publication date2004-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueThe Creativity of God (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511616921
ISBN9780511616921
Open LibraryOL7765577M
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited32

We have, as a theological community, generally lost a language in which to speak of the created-ness of the world. As a consequence, our discourses of reason cannot bridge the way we know God and the way we know the world. Therefore, argues Oliver Davies, a primary task of contemporary theology is the regeneration of a Christian account of the world as sacramental, leading to the formation of a Christian conception of reason and a new Christocentric understanding of the real. Both the Johannine tradition of creation through the Word and a Eucharistic semiotics of Christ as the embodied, sacrificial and creative speech of God serve the project of a repairal of Christian cosmology. The world itself is viewed as a creative text authored by God, of which we as interpreters are an integral part. This is a wide-ranging and convincing book that makes an important contribution to modern theology.

Christian theology · Christian Theology - General · Christianity · Christianity - General · Creation · History of ideas · Intellectual history · Lord's Supper · Philosophical theology · Reason · Religion · Religion - Theology · Cosmology · History of ideas, intellectual history · Philosophy