Trinity and Revelation : a Constructive Christian Theology for the Pluralistic World, volume 2.

535 Pages·2014·3.04 MB·English

by  Karkkainen, Veli-Matti

Kärkkäinen Trinity and Revelation 3rd corrections
A C C T
ONSTRUCTIVE HRISTIAN HEOLOGY
P W
FOR THE LURALISTIC ORLD
1
VOLUME
Christ and Reconciliation
2
VOLUME
Trinity and Revelation
TRINITY AND REVELATION
Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
W B. E P C
ILLIAM ERDMANS UBLISHING OMPANY
G R , M / C , U.K.
RAND APIDS ICHIGAN AMBRIDGE
© 2014 Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
All rights reserved
Published 2014 by
Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Kärkkäinen, Veli-Matti.
Trinity and revelation / Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen.
pages cm. — (A constructive Christian theology for the pluralistic world; v. 2)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8028-6854-1 (pbk.: alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-4674-4048-6 (ePub)
ISBN 978-1-4674-4006-6 (Kindle)
1. Trinity. 2. Revelation. 3. Christianity and other religions. I. Title.
BT111.3K36 2014
231.044 — dc23
2013044664
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Contents
Cover
Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction: A Hospitable and Inviting Methodological Vision
I. Triune Revelation
1. On the Conditions of the Doctrine of Revelation
Is There a Revelation in Christian Religion?
The Doctrine of Revelation on Both Sides of Modernity
The Widening Horizon of the Discourse on Revelation and Scripture
in a Pluralistic World
2. Triune Revelation
Loving Father and the Cruciform Revelation
Incarnated Son and Embodied Revelation
Life-Giving Spirit and Living Revelation
3. Revelation as Historical-Eschatological Word of Promise
Theology of History
Revelation in History
Revelation as History and as Word
An Eschatological-Historical Promise
4. Liberating Word
“The Biblical Texts as Furthering Life”
Inclusive Word
Revelation as Liberation
The Liberating Power of Translation
“Reading the Bible in Spanish”
5. God’s Word in Human Words
Inspiration of Scripture: Divine-Human Dynamic
Scripture as the Word of God and Human Testimony
A Truthful Encounter
The Revelatory Power of Metaphors and Symbols
The Category of Myth and Mysticism
6. Scripture, Community, and Tradition
Which Use of the Bible? Whose “Authorship”?
Scripture as the Ultimate Norm of Theology
Scripture and Church
Living Tradition and “Closed Canon”
Tradition, Identity, and Context
7. Natural Theology as Christian Theology
Natural Knowledge of God Is “Natural”
How Natural Theology Became “Unnatural”
Natural Theology as Trinitarian Christian Theology
Wisdom as Revelation
8. Revelation and Scripture among Religions
The Challenge and Complexity of Interfaith Engagement of Scriptures
Hindu Scriptures and Authority in a Christian Perspective
Is There Revelation in Buddhist Traditions?
The Qurʾan and the Bible
The First and the Second Testaments
Common Scripture Reading as a Form of Interfaith Theologizing
II. Triune God
9. On the Conditions and Contours of God-Talk
The Doctrine of God in a New Environment
God in a Secular Age
Objections against God-Talk
The Atheistic Rebuttals of Faith in God
The Re-turn of Metaphysics
The “Traces” of God in the Created Reality
10. “Classical Panentheism”
For Orientation: Classical Theism, Panentheism, or “Classical
Panentheism”?
Classical Theism: A Generous Assessment
Panentheism: A Seasoned Embrace
Contemporary Resources for a Reconceived Doctrine of God
11. One God as Communion of Persons
The Role of the Trinity in Christian Theology and Doctrine of God
One God as Father, Son, and Spirit
The Unity of the Tripersonal God
God and World: Economic and Immanent Trinity
Do the Christian East and West Confess the Same Trinitarian Faith?
12. The Relational God and the Divine Attributes
How to Speak of God’s Attributes — or Whether to Speak of Them
God as Spirit and “Person”
Eternal God
The God of Love
13. Divine Hospitality
God the Giver and Gift
Hospitality as Inclusion
God as Communion: A Theological Account of Equality, Justice, and
Fairness
Hospitality and Violence
Hospitality as Advocacy
Hospitality and Human Flourishing
14. The Failing Promises of Theo-Logical Pluralisms
For Orientation: Various “Turns” in the Christian Theology of
Religion
The “First Generation” Pluralisms
The “Turn” to Trinitarian Ways of Constructing Pluralistic
Theologies
Trinity and Religious Pluralism: Some “Trinitarian” Rules
15. The Triune God among Religions
For Orientation: A Dialogical and Confessional Pursuit of God
Allah and the Father of Jesus Christ
Brahman and the Trinitarian God
Sunyata and Personal God
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index of Authors
Index of Subjects
Abbreviations
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Unless otherwise indicated, all citations from patristic writers come from
the standard series listed above.
Bible references are from the Revised Standard Version unless
otherwise indicated.
The Qurʾanic references are from The Holy Qurʾān: A New English
Translation of Its Meanings © 2008 Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for
Islamic Thought, Amman, Jordan. This version of the Qurʾān is also
available online at http://altafsir.com.
Hadith texts are from the collection at the Center for Muslim-Jewish
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