| Description |
287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: The end of salvation history -- The classic model -- The challenge of postmodernism -- Rethinking the relationship of God and history -- 2. God: Triune figuration -- Hegel's contribution to Trinitarian speculation -- Accents of historicality, difference, process, and embodiment -- "Figure" and "shape" as metaphors -- Triune figuration: The one who loves in freedom -- 3. History: De-configurative process -- Hegel's metahistory -- Troeltsch's critique of historical reason and the shaping of cultural syntheses -- The de-construction of history -- History as de-configurative process -- 4. Freedom: Transfigurative praxis -- The turn to praxis -- God's presence: Divine Gestalt -- Transfigurative praxis: Shapes of freedom -- 5. Epilogue: the beginning of the history of freedom? -- The history of freedom within history: an open teleology -- The consummation of freedom in God. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 252-279. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Subject |
History -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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| ISBN |
0687149681 alkaline paper |
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