Theology and the Drama of History (Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine, Series Number 13) - Softcover

Quash, Ben

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521090822 ISBN 13: 9780521090827

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

How can theology think and talk about history? Building on the work of the major twentieth-century theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar as well as entering into sharp critical debate with him, this book sets out to examine the value and the potential of a 'theodramatic' conception of history. By engaging in dialogue not only with theologians and philosophers like von Balthasar, Hegel and Barth, but with poets and dramatists such as the Greek tragedians, Shakespeare and Gerard Manley Hopkins, the book makes its theological principles open and indebted to literary forms, and seeks to show how such a theology might be applied to a world intrinsically and thoroughly historical. By contrast with theologies that stand back from the contingencies of history and so fight shy of the uncertainties and openness of Christian existence, this book's theology is committed to taking seriously the God who works in time.

About this title

Book Description

How can theology think and talk about history? This book engages in dialogue both with theologians and philosophers like von Balthasar, Hegel and Barth, and with poets and dramatists including Aeschylus, Shakespeare and Gerard Manley Hopkins to develop radical ways of articulating the mystery of divine and human freedom.

About the Author

Ben Quash is Dean and Fellow of Peterhouse and lectures at the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. He is also Convenor of the Cambridge Interfaith Programme.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521090822
• ISBN 13: 9780521090827
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 252