On Christian theology
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/catalog4075
- Author
- Williams, Rowan D. (Rowan Douglas), 1950-
- Publication Date
- c2000
- Material Type
- Book
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)
- Call Number
- BT 75.2 W544 2000
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Publisher
- Blackwell
- Publication Date
- c2000
- Physical Description
- xvi, 310 p. ; 23 x 15 cm.
- Material Type
- Book
- Notes
- "[By] Rowan Williams".
- "First published 2000. Reprinted 2000 (twice), 2001".
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- A collection of eighteen chapters/essays. "Williams argues that theology moves constantly between the three registers of the celebratory, the communicative and the critical, and is held together by something not captured by any of these modes. He reflects on the fundamental connection between theology and self-awareness and self-critique, and discusses doctrinal issues -- creation, incarnation, the Trinity -- in this light. He addresses the nature of signs and sacraments and looks at the public and ethical embodiment of this theological vision. Overall, Williams presents a theological perspective acutely aware of the cultural and political crises of our time. He suggests that detachment from doctrinal tradition will not solve our problems and argues instead for an imaginative reworking of the doctrinal tradition, formed in an intense dialogue with modernity and postmodernity." -- back cover.
- Contents divided into five parts: Defining the Enterprise -- The Act of God -- The Grammar of God -- Making Signs -- Living the Mystery.
- Contents: Acknowledgement -- Preface dated Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas [7 March], 1999 -- Prologue -- Theological Integrity -- The Unity of Christian Truth -- The Judgement of the World -- The Discipline of Scripture -- On Being Creatures -- Beginning with the Incarnation -- The Finality of Christ -- Word and Spirit -- Trinity and Revelation -- Trinity and Ontology -- Trinity and Pluralism -- Between the Cherubim: the Empty Tomb and the Empty Throne -- The Nature of a Sacrament -- Sacraments of the New Society -- Incarnation and the Renewal of Community -- Interiority and Epiphany: a Reading in New Testament Ethics -- 'Nobody Knows Who I Am Till the Judgement Morning' -- Index.
- Series
- Challenges in contemporary theology
- Subjects
- Theology, Doctrinal
- Theology, Doctrinal - Anglican Communion
- Incarnation - Anglican Communion
- Jesus Christ - Person and offices - Anglican Communion
- Holy Spirit - Anglican Communion
- Trinity - Anglican Communion
- Jesus Christ - Resurrection - Anglican Communion
- Sacraments - Anglican Communion
- Christian ethics - Anglican authors
- Racism - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- ISBN
- 0-631-21440-2 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- Call Number
- BT 75.2 W544 2000
- Location
- Trinity College (Graham Library)