Wrestling with Angels: Conversations in Modern TheologyWrestling with Angels gathers writings by Rowan Williams -- many now out of print or otherwise difficult to obtain -- spanning the years 1980-2000. It focuses on his insightful engagement with a range of modern theologians and philosophers -- Hegel, Wittgenstein, Barth, Bonhoeffer, Balthasar, Simone Weil, Marilyn McCord Adams, and more. Key themes explored in this volume include negative theology, postmodernity, violence, innocence, divine action, and the nature of historical development in theology. Williams's powerfully coherent theological vision shines throughout. Nowhere else will readers find Williams dialoguing with such a breathtaking range of writers. |
Contents
Lossky the via negativa and the foundations of theology | 1 |
Hegel and the gods of postmodernity | 25 |
Logic and spirit in Hegel | 35 |
reflections in the wake of Gillian Rose | 53 |
Balthasar and difference | 77 |
Balthasar Rahner and the apprehension of being | 86 |
Barth on the triune god | 106 |
Barth war and the state | 150 |
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| Title | Wrestling with Angels: Conversations in Modern Theology |
| Author | Rowan William |
| Editor | Mike Higton |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0802827268, 9780802827265 |
| Length | 305 pages |
| Subjects | › › Religion / Christian Theology / Systematic |
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