Persons, powers, and pluralities
Subtitle: toward a Trinitarian theology of culture
By: Eric G. Flett
Series: Princeton theological monograph series -- 158; Princeton theological monograph series -- 158.
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Eugene, Or
Language: eng
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9781606086582
Subjects: Theological anthropology; Trinity; Culture (Christian theology)
Description: Torrance's work suggests that Christian assumptions in the areas of God, creation, and humanity had an important influence upon the development of Western scientific culture. This book develops each of these areas of Torrance's thought in order to articulate a theology of culture rooted in a Christian understanding of God as triune, creation as contingent, and human persons as stewards created in the image of God. Drawn together, these three areas of Torrance's thought suggest that human culture and cultural plurality ultimately originate in the creation of a triune God, mediated through the creative activity of the human creature as it engages in a contingent created order in its attempts to foster human flourishing and to bear witness to its creator. The result is not only a unique contribution to the emerging secondary material on Torrance's work, but also a contribution to the field of theology of culture as a systematic locus in its own right.
Notes: Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--King's College, University of London, 2004.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-253).
Table of contents: title: Torrance's doctrine of God : the triune creator; title: Torrance's doctrine of creation I : order as contingent; title: Torrance's doctrine of creation II : order as redeemed; title: Torrance's doctrine of humanity : priests of creation, mediators of order; title: Torrance's doctrine of culture : a social coefficient of knowledge; title: Toward a Trinitarian theology of culture : persons, powers, and pluralities.