Colin Gunton and the Failure of Augustine: The Theology of Colin Gunton in the Light of Augustine. By Bradley G. Green. Foreword by Lewis Ayres
Bradley G. Green’s book presents a picture of Augustine as an ally and resource to Gunton’s trinitarian theology of creation, ‘“a renewed theological vision of truth that does justice to the concerns of modernity and offers a way forward that is free of some of the weaknesses of the Western traditio...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2012
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2012, Volume: 63, Issue: 2, Pages: 799-801 |
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| Summary: | Bradley G. Green’s book presents a picture of Augustine as an ally and resource to Gunton’s trinitarian theology of creation, ‘“a renewed theological vision of truth that does justice to the concerns of modernity and offers a way forward that is free of some of the weaknesses of the Western tradition”’ (p. 7). Green emphasizes two of these ‘weaknesses’: (i) an apparent severing between creation and redemption, and (ii) a ‘vacuum’ of an ‘ “explicitly Christian theological ontology” ’ (p. 69). I will focus on key features of his reading., If Gunton was not alone among theologians in criticizing Augustine (ch. 1), Green argues that it is in part because there is a general acknowledgement of a Western deficit in affirming ‘the essential importance of the Many (i.e. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/fls140 |