Formation for knowing God : imagining God: at-one-ing, transforming, for self-revealing /

"God is Self-Revealed" we are assured by many Christians today. Yet this conviction stems only from eighteenth-century Enlightenment debates. Early and ongoing Christians, with their Jewish roots, trusted God as a committed and saving but heavily clouded presence (whether by God's cho...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Downing, F. Gerald, 1935- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Eugene, Oregon : Cascade Books, [2015]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Seeking and securing clarity and unity in talk and God-talk
  • "Reconciliation," "at-one-ment," "self, "revelation" today
  • Ancient Jewish scriptures
  • New Testament scriptures
  • Ongoing Christian tradition
  • Hide and seek with the God of love
  • Imaginative faith while being transformed for knowing as we are known
  • A very brief agnostic (unknowing) systematic theology for awaiting God's self-revelation.