Fully Alive: The Glory of God and the Human Creature in Karl Barth, Hans Urs von Balthasar and Theological Exegesis of Scripture
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| Rating | : | 4.97 (929 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0567672042 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Jacob Sherman said Highly recommended. This is an extraordinarily rich. Highly recommended. This is an extraordinarily rich, hermeneutically generous account of God's glory and its relation to theological anthropology. Fout provides compelling but also critical readings of Barth and von Balthasar before returning to a deeply theological reading of the Christian scriptures themselves. In doing so he not only presents a profound vision of God's glory and human agency but
Jason A. He teaches theology and ethics in the Bexley Seabury Seminary Federation, USA. Fout (PhD, University of Cambridge, UK) is a priest of the Episcopal Church.
In Fully Alive, Jason Fout respectfully addresses such tendencies in Karl Barth and Hans Urs von Balthasar. Fout is profoundly perceptive in his appreciative and critical account of two of the greatest theologians of the past century, Barth and Von Balthasar. Ford, University of Cambridge, UK God's glory is God's perfection, surely expressed in God's creation. Yet much theology highlights the glory of God at the expense of human freedom-the ability to act freely in response to God. Through careful theological reading of key Scriptural passages on divine glory, Fout shows that God's glory overflows in ways that free persons for their full responsibility as human persons and societies, and this freedom gives ful
Moving beyond Barth and von Balthasar, this work turns to theological exegesis of Scripture to construct an alternative account of divine glory. Karl Barth and Hans Urs von Balthasar have avoided this tendency, instead depicting God's glory as enabling people to participate in glorifying God. In effect, this makes humanity a threat to God's glory, and causes God's glory to remain opaque to human enquiry and foreign to human life. Numerous contemporary theologians depict divine glory as overwhelming to or competitive with human agency. Nevertheless both accounts fall short of their initial promise by giving one-dimensional accounts of human obedience to God within largely conventional divine command accounts of ethics. And so, ironically, on these accounts God's glory remains opaque to human enquiry and foreign to human life.This study builds a case for seeing divine glory as intrinsically relational, creating a sociality which allows for a human agency transfigured by God's glory. Divine glory is shown to be consistent with a responsive and creative human obedience to God, and shown