The self-emptying god
Subtitle: an undercurrent in Christian theology helping the relationship with science
By: by Peter J. Colyer
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781443847209
Subjects: Incarnation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-237) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Four main themes --; title: word "kenosis" --; title: Is science a reliable partner? --; title: Scientific language and religious language --; title: limit to self-limitation -- -- Theme 1; title: Failure of the Monarchical Model of God --; title: evidence from the world --; title: Barbour's critique of the monarchical view of God -- -- Theme 2; title: Alternative in Christian Theology -- -- 2.1.; title: biblical material --; title: New Testament: Philippians 2.6-7 --; title: Yahweh the wronged husband in the book of Hosea --; title: Other texts in the Hebrew Scriptures --; title: Conclusion to this examination of the biblical material -- -- 2.2.; title: persistence of kenoticism --; title: Patristics, Aquinas and the Reformation --; title: Nineteenth century Continental kenotic Christology --; title: pioneers of British kenotic Christology --; title: scientific and theological contexts of British kenoticism --; title: taxonomy of kenotic Christologies --; title: Wider than Christology -- hints of a kenosis of God --; title: Conclusions on the early period of British kenotic theology --; title: "New-style kenoticism" --; title: Kenosis in the recent theology of Eastern Orthodoxy -- -- Theme 3; title: Opposition to Divine Self-emptying --; title: reaction against early kenotic Christology in Britain --; title: disillusionment with humanity --; title: Michael Taylor controversy, 1971-72 --; title: Is kenoticism necessarily Trinitarian? -- -- Theme 4; title: Space for Science -- -- 4.1.; title: search for compatibility --; title: Teilhard de Chardin: evolution and the future --; title: Barbour's models of the God-world relationship --; title: Process Theology: Ian Barbour and John Haught --; title: suffering of God --; title: Panentheism, and other recent themes -- -- 4.2.; title: theology of a kenotic God in a scientific world Creation and divine invisibility --; title: All-powerful or all-loving? --; title: Human experience and revelation --; title: Jesus Christ and the development of belief --; title: Worship and Hope.