God and Creation in Christian Theology: Tyranny and Empowerment?

by Kathryn Tanner

Publisher:

Fortress Press

, 2004

Overview

How are God and creatures related? How can one reconcile the sovereigntyand power of God with creatures’ capacity to act freely?

Kathryn Tanner’s important and original work seeks an answer in the features and limits of traditional Christian discourse. Her search for a unique kernal orregulative dimension of the Christian doctrine of God-world relations leadsher to identify in the tradition an operative grammar of meaningful theological discourse that not only informs the past but can guide the future.

Key Features

• Seeks an answer in the features and limits of traditional Christian discourse.
• Shows a unique kernal orregulative dimension of the Christian doctrine.
• Identifies in the tradition an operative grammar of meaningful theological discourse.

Product Details

• Title: God and Creation in Christian Theology: Tyranny and Empowerment?
• Author: Kathryn Tanner
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Print Publication Date: 2004
• Pages: 208
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• ISBNs: 9780800637378, 0800637372
• Resource ID: LLS:GDCRTNTYMPWRMNT
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-02-29T19:57:52Z

About Kathryn Tanner

Kathryn Tanner is the Frederick Marquand Professor of Systematic Theology at Yale Divinity School. Her research relates the history of Christian thought to contemporary issues of theological concern using social, cultural, and feminist theory. She is the author of God and Creation in Christian Theology: Tyranny or Empowerment?; The Politics of God: Christian Theologies and Social Justice; Theories of Culture: A New Agenda for Theology; Jesus, Humanity and the Trinity: A Brief Systematic Theology; Economy of Grace; Christ the Key; and most recently Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism.