God's Beauty-in-Act

God's Beauty-in-Act
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Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages : 263
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ISBN-10 : 9781610977302
ISBN-13 : 1610977300
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Book Synopsis God's Beauty-in-Act by : Stephen M. Garrett

Download or read book God's Beauty-in-Act written by Stephen M. Garrett and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jurgen Moltmann and others contend that Christian theology and the church face a dual crisis--one of relevance and the other of identity. Despite making this pronouncement nearly forty years ago, the church in the West continues to struggle with this crisis. Several proposals have been espoused, from the way of wisdom to the way of ecclesial praxis. Yet, little attention is given in Protestant theological discourse to the role God's beauty plays in bringing theology and ethics together. By neglecting God's beauty for theological discourse, we risk diminishing Christian worship, witness, and wisdom. God's Beauty-in-Act addresses these issues, in part, by arguing that the redemptive-creative suffering and glorious resurrection of Christ are the nexus of God's being, beauty, and Christian living. God's beauty, understood as the fittingness of the incarnate Son's actions in the Spirit to the Father's will, radiates God's glory and draws perceivers into the dramatic movements of God's triune life. These movements serve as the patterns that shape the imagination, enabling participants to perform their parts creatively and fittingly in God's drama of redemption. In doing so, human beings flourish as they jettison false identities and realities of their own making that are incommensurate with God's purpose found in Christ by the Spirit.


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