Place of Publication

New York NY

Publisher

Macmillan

Publication Date

c1970

Physical Description

219 p. ; 18 x 10.5 cm.

Material Type

Book : Paper

Notes

"Edited by Martin E. Marty and Dean G. Peerman".

"'To transcend' means to go beyond limits and powers or to be higher or greater than something or someone. 'Transcendence' implies 'the quality of going beyond or being superior to'. Influenced by the historical experience of the Western world, the 'Oxford English Dictionary' moves a step further and turns theological: 'Transcendence' is 'of the Deity, the attribute of being above and independent of the universe, distinguished from immanence'. .... After our annual season of search through theological journal to determine what themes have been most creatively treated, we decided upon the concern for transcendence". -- Intro., p. 9.

Contents: Acknowledgements / M.E.M. and D.G.P. -- Introduction: The Recovery of Transcendence -- I: The Call for Experience -- The Erosion of the Mystery / Irene Marinoff -- The New Gnosticism / Charles Carroll -- The Place of Feeling in Religious Awareness / Paul Rowntree Clifford -- II: Myths and Models for Modern Man -- The Uses of Myth in an Age of Science / John F. Hayward -- Manifesto for a Dionysian Theology / Sam Keen -- III: Pioneers in the Recovery -- Karl Rahner: Theology of the Spiritual Life / John Carmody -- Thomas Merton: The Last Three Days / John Moffitt -- IV: Philosophical and Theological Variations -- Towards a New Theology of Presence / Samuel Terrien -- The Transcendence of God / John Williamson -- Transcendent Divinity and Process Philosophy / Eugene Fontinell -- V: Revisiting the Doctrine of God -- The Divinity of the Holy Spirit / R.P.C. Hanson -- The Futurist Option in Speaking of God / Robert W. Jenson.

Series

New theology ; 7

Added Entry

Marty, Martin E., 1928-

Peerman, Dean G.

Carmody, John (John Tully), 1939-

Carroll, Charles (Charles Patrick), 1916-2004

Fontinell, Eugene, 1924-2009

Clifford, Paul Rowntree, 1913-2003

Hanson, Richard (Richard Patrick Crosland), 1916-1988

Hayward, John F., 1918-2012

Jenson, Robert W., 1930-

Keen, Sam, 1931-

Marinoff, Irene, 1901-

Moffitt, John, 1929-2008

Terrien, Samuel (Samuel Lucien), 1911-2002

Williamson, John (John Hawthorn), 1920-2004

Subjects

Theology

Christianity - 20th century

Transcendence of God

Call Number

BR 53 N5

Location

Trinity College (Graham Library)

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