Receiving the gift
Taking the Christian Scriptures as its starting point, this article attempts a critical reflection on Polydoxy. While expressing a number of sympathies with elements of the project, four questions are raised in my reception of the book. First: the roles of revealed truth and authority within polydox...
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Review |
| Language: | English |
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[2014]
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Modern theology
Year: 2014, Volume: 30, Issue: 3, Pages: 74-88 |
| Review of: | Polydoxy (London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2011) (Ward, Graham)
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
God
/ One (The One in philosophy)
/ Panentheism
/ Apophatic theology
/ Orthodoxy (motif)
/ Christology
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism NBC Doctrine of God NBF Christology |
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
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| Summary: | Taking the Christian Scriptures as its starting point, this article attempts a critical reflection on Polydoxy. While expressing a number of sympathies with elements of the project, four questions are raised in my reception of the book. First: the roles of revealed truth and authority within polydoxy's project. Second: whether the project constructs a false foil in its presentation of "orthodoxy." Third: the nature of the panentheism that some of the contributors to the volume espouse. And fourth: whether characterising panentheism as apophatic renders that espousal more coherent from a Christian theological perspective. These four questions focus on the Christological models presented in Polydoxy. I conclude that Christian orthodoxy concerns the articulation of a Christological logic that can 'save us' and, on the basis of my critical reflection, I am left wondering whether the theology presented to us in Polydoxy can really do that. |
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| ISSN: | 0266-7177 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Modern theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/moth.12122 |