Confronting a Controlling God : Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination.

Confronting a Controlling God : Christian Humanism and the Moral Imagination.

Christianity has lost control of its brand. That matters even for nonbelievers because Christian symbolism permeates Western culture. It shapes the source code for how we think about ourselves and what we expect from one another. If God is all-controlling, then human control is divinely sanctioned....

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Main Author: Wallace, Catherine M.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Eugene : Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2016.
©2016
Series:Confronting fundamentalism.
Subjects:
God.
Christian humanism.
Christian humanism
God
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Table of Contents:
  • Confronting fundamentalism: the dangerous God of "control and condemn"
  • 1967: What the cake said
  • God-talk 101: The art that is Christianity
  • The Copernican turn of Christian humanism
  • Quantum theology: the symbolic character of God-talk
  • Theological weirdness (1): the symbolic claim that God is a person
  • Poets as theologians: the moral imagination of Christian Humanist tradition
  • Moses debates with a burning bush
  • I AM v. I WILL BE: translation and the authority of theologians
  • Theological weirdness (2): the symbolic claim that God is necessarily impersonal
  • What, then, can be said about God?

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