Finding All Things in God

Pansacramentalism and Doing Theology Interreligiously
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-7188-9490-0
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 356 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 478 g

Reihe: Lutterworth Press

An enquiry into the role of pansacramentalism as a bridge between theology and spirituality and its implications for interreligious studies.

In Finding All Things In God, Hans Gustafson proposes pansacramentalism as holding the potential to find the divine in all things and all things in the divine. Such a proposition carries significant interreligious implications, particularly in the practice of theology. Presupposing theological practice as divorced from spirituality (lived religious experience), Gustafson presents pansacramentalism as a bridge between the two. In so doing, Gustafson offers a history of spirituality, sketching the foundations of a classical approach to sacramentality (through Aquinas) as well as a contemporary approach to the same (through Rahner and Chauvet). Through three fascinating case studies, this book presents particular instances of sacramentality in lived religious experience. Gustafson offers an exciting method of 'doing theology', one which is entirely compatible with the interdisciplinary field of interreligious studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gustafson, Hans

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1: "Tell Me Your Story"
1 "There's a Lot of Medicine in that Water"
2 Theology and Spirituality
3 Foundations of Sacramentality
4 The "Protestant Principle" and Sacramental Caution
5 A Rahnerian Pansacramental Proposal
6 Louis-Marie Chauvet: Beyond Aristotle and Aquinas
Part 2: "Believing is Seeing"
7 Sacramental Spirituality
8 Thomas Merton: Sacramental Spirituality and Place
9 Nicholas Black Elk: Sacramental Spirituality and Descandalizing Multiple Religious Identity
10 Dostoevsky and Wendell Berry: Sacramental Spirituality and Literature
Part 3: "Finding All Things in the Divine"
11 A Philosophy of Sacramental Mediation
12 Panentheism
13 Suffering in God and World
14 Towards a Pansacramental Theology of Religious Pluralism and Doing Theology Interreligiously
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index