Love's availing power
Subtitle: imaging God, imagining the world
By: Paul R. Sponheim
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780800698218
Subjects: God (Christianity)
Description: "Paul R. Sponheim explains God's willingness to accept risks in creating human freedom. Sponheim presents an understanding of God's power at work in the lives of creatures, encouraging relationships and inspiring activity on behalf of creation. Sponheim's formulation of freedom in relationship born at the intersection of existential theology and process thought provides a way between the extremes of individualism and a homogenizing that obscures the reality and responsibility of the individual. The power of love is not dominating coercion but a power that avails and helps to accomplish a truly human life"--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Imaging God's love in freedom : a Kierkegaardian invitation; title: Imagining the world in relation : a Whiteheadian inclusion; title: To believe, facing finitude : trusting together in hope; title: To live, against evil : the power of love for and with the other(s); title: To respect our limitations and recognize actual evil, while living.