The revelatory body : theology as inductive art

by Luke Timothy Johnson

Paper Book, 2015

Status

Available

Call number

BT741.3.J64 2015

Publication

Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2015.

Description

Argues that theology can respond faithfully to the living God only by paying due attention to human bodily experience Scripture points to the human body and lived experience as the preeminent arena of God's continuing revelation in the world, says Luke Timothy Johnson. Attentively discerning the manifestations of God's Spirit in and through the body is essential for theology to recover its nature as an inductive art rather than -- as traditionally conceived -- a deductive science. Willingness to risk engaging actual human situations -- as opposed to abstract conceptualizations of those situations -- is required of the theologian, Johnson argues. He celebrates the intimations of divine presence and power in such human experiences as play, pain, pleasure, work, and aging, showing how theology can respond faithfully to the living God only by paying due attention to human bodily experience.… (more)

LCC

BT741.3.J64 2015

Physical description

x, 246 p.; 24 cm

ISBN

9780802803832

Barcode

31342000090331
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