The Domestication of Transcendence
Subtitle: How modern thinking about God went wrong
Publisher: Westminster/John Knox
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Louisville
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780664256357
First sentence: The writing of this book emerged in part out of two frustration-frustrations that developed as I read in recent Christian theology.
Description: William Placher looks at "classical" Christian theology (Thomas Aquinas, John Calvin, Martin Luther) and contrasts it with the Christian discourse about God that evolved in the seventeenth century. In particular, he deals with the notion of transcendence that gained prominence in this era and its impact on modern theology and modern thinking today. He persuasively argues that useful lessons can be drawn from premodern thinking about God, especially when viewed within the context of contemporary objections to it. This reexamination, according to Placher, has practical and profound implications for modern theology.