God-creature-revelation
Subtitle: a neoclassical framework for fundamental theology
By: Jerry D. Korsmeyer ; with a foreword by David Ray Griffin.
Publisher: University Press of America
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Doctrines.; Theology, Doctrinal.
Description: Educated Western Christians seek to understand the scientific basis of evolution as well as to justify why a God worth worshiping can be responsible -- yet not indictable -- for evil. The author creates an innovative theological framework that addresses these concerns and provides part of a structure for fundamental theology which is based on the neoclassical metaphysics of Charles Hartshorne and the speculative cosmology of Alfred North Whitehead. His model of the divine has three basic principles: God is love, God is the creator, and this creativity is an integral part of divine essence. From this model, he develops a fundamental theology which focuses on the nature of divinity, the interaction between human and the divine, and divine revelation. He attributes much of his own concept of revelation to Whitehead's model in which revelation is indicative of a successful communion between human and divine. This revelation is achieved through symbolic mediation and it is as much inter-personal reconciliation as it is a universal resonance of the creative essence between heaven and earth. This framework shows initial agreement with Christian traditions; it is highly coherent, universal in scope and, most importantly, it has rich potential for future Christian understanding.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-221) and index.