Creation, Christ and Culture : Studies in Honour of T. F. Torrance.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Covenant and Canon in the Old Testament -- 2 The New Creation in I Enoch -- 3 Creation, Wisdom and Christ -- I. Wisdom and Creation -- II. Wisdom, Creation and Christ -- III. Wisdom, Creation and Jesus -- 4 'Logos, Image, Son': Some Models and Paradigms in Early Christology -- Models and Paradigms -- The Logos Paradigm -- Alternative Paradigms-Image and son -- 5 Some Comments on the Background and Influence of Augustine's Lex Aeterna Doctrine -- I. Some General Clarifications -- II. Developments Prior to Augustine -- III. Augustine's lex aeterna Doctrine -- IV. Concluding Remarks on Augustine's Influence -- 6 The Body of God's Presence: A Trinitarian Theory -- Preliminaries -- The Phenomenon of the Body -- Gods and Their Revelations -- The Embodiment of the Gospel's God -- God's Body -- A Trinitarian Theory -- 7 The Relation of the Doctrines of the Incarnation and the Trinity -- APPENDIX A Cullman &amp -- Bultmann -- APPENDIX B Kung on Divine Impassibility -- APPENDIX C -- 8 Creation and Covenant -- CREATION AND COVENANT -- COVENANT AND CREATION -- What is the relation of this covenant with all creation to the special covenant with Israel? -- CREATION AND THE NEW COVENANT -- The witness of creation to the Creator -- The Creation of Heaven -- The Dominion of Man and the Ecological Crisis -- 9 Creation and Redemption -- I. Two Problems -- II. Is creation a closed or an open system ? -- III. Creation at the beginning -- IV. Creative activity in history -- V. The Consummation of Creation -- VI. The capacity for survival through the living together (Symbiosis) of Man and Nature -- 10 Creation and Participation -- I. Creature and Creator -- II. Participation -- III. Coincidentia Oppositorum -- IV. The Logic of Infinity -- V. The Divine Sharing.

VI. Creation as a Philosophical Concept -- VII. The Metaphysics of Agency -- VIII. The Source -- 11 Theological Aspects of Creative Science -- Historical Background -- Creative Science -- Theological Aspects -- 12 Authority, Community and Church -- Toward a Definition -- Authority and Faith -- Authority and Historical Change -- Community and Church -- 13 Precepts and Counsels -- 14 Morality and Prayer -- I. Introduction -- II. More Recent Understanding of Prayer, Morality and their Relationship in the Roman Catholic Tradition -- III. Prayer and Morality in the post-Vatican II Era -- IV. From Morality to Prayer: A Reconsideration of the Bond -- Conclusion -- 15 Theology and Method -- 16 The Truth of Life: Observations on Truth as the Interruption of the Continuity of Life -- I -- II -- III -- 17 Historical Relativism, the Appeal to Experience and Theological Reconstruction -- I -- II -- III -- 18 Life After Death: the Christian Doctrine of Heaven -- I -- II -- III -- 19 The Problem of Defining a Theology of Culture with Reference to the Theology of Paul Tillich -- 20 All in One Place or All of One Sort? -- I -- II -- III -- IV -- Bibliography.

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