Participation in God
A Study in Christian Doctrine and Metaphysics
- Author: Andrew Davison, University of Cambridge
- Date Published: June 2020
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108704045
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Few ideas have excited greater interest among theologians in recent decades than the idea of 'participation'. In thinking about creation, it is the notion that everything comes from, and depends upon, God, inviting the language of sharing, or of an exemplar and its images; in thinking about redemption, it points to the restoration of that image, and is expressed in the language of communion with God and with the redeemed community. In this volume, Andrew Davison considers these themes in unprecedented breadth, investigating the fundamental character of participation as it can be applied to a wide range of theological topics. Exploring what it means to know, to love, to do good, and to live together well, he shows how these ideas animate a particular understanding of human life and how we relate to the world around us. His book offers the most comprehensive survey of participation to date, contributing to detailed discussions of these themes among academic theologians.
Read more- Written with both the specialist and more general readership in mind by including an accessible main text and more detailed points of discussion
- Provides a worked example of the relation between foundational metaphysical and doctrinal convictions to their practical repercussions
- Addresses a full range of theological themes (topics in systematic theology) and the interconnection between theological vision and a way of life
- Spans many of the principal divides in theological writing - doctrine, philosophy and scripture - and considers applied themes, such as ethics, prayer, and the way we apprehend and respond to the world around us
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'… especially admirable as a lucid, generous, thorough synthesis of recent and contemporary scholarly discussions of Thomist thought.' Clare Carlisle, Times Literary Supplement
See more reviews'Davison … succeeds overall in offering a clear, theologically nuanced and philosophically tenable articulation of participation in God with all that it entails. Works of this kind can be opaque, but Davison's monograph stands out since he writes for the specialist and the nonspecialist alike. Due to the breadth and depth of his treatment, this work ought to be consulted by anyone interested in systematic theology in general and metaphysics and philosophical theology more specifically.' Thomas Haviland-Pabst, Theology and History
'The text is written in a lucid and inviting style. The student of theology will find in ita offer a movingly coherent and often poetic account of a world ordered by and sharing in God. The scholar as well will find plenty of insights ... Few scholars have the gift of writing such a full treatment of a bedrock idea in a way that is both approachable and generativeof new critical engagement. Davison has this gift, and he has written such a book.' Anthony Baker, Scottish Journal of Theology
'Andrew Davison's Participation in God is a magnificent gift to teachers and students of Christian theology, preachers of the faith, spiritual directors of the faithful, and specialists requiring a systematic theology of participation.' Simon Oliver, Modern Theology
'… Davison offers an impressive and wide-ranging study of the doctrine of participation, effectively demonstrating how it provides a metaphysical framework for theology that allows us to see the world as a gift from God, bearing some trace of his likeness, and creation as profoundly precious because of the one who gives it to us, and whose likeness it bears: God himself.' Daria Spezzano, The Living Church
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- Date Published: June 2020
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108704045
- length: 435 pages
- dimensions: 150 x 230 x 30 mm
- weight: 0.74kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I. Participation and Causation:
1. By and from God: efficient causation and God as the origin and agent of creation
2. Causes and the Trinity: 'from Him and through Him and to Him are all things'
3. Not out of God: God is not the material cause for creation
4. After God's likeness: formal causation and creaturely characterfulness
5. To and for God: final causation and God as the origin and goal of creation
Part II. The Language of Participation and Language as Participation:
6. Characterising participation
7. Analogy: participation in being and language
Part III. Participation and the Theological Story:
8. Participation and christology
9. Participation and creaturely action
10. Evil as the failure of participation
11. Redemption I: restoration and union
12. Redemption II: justification, merit and transformation
Part IV. Participation and the Shape of Human Life:
13. Truth: knowing and the lucidity of things
14. Beauty: praying and loving
15. Goodness: ethics
Conclusion: participation, relation and common life.
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