Divine Multiplicity: Trinities, Diversities, and the Nature of Relation (Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0823253961 ISBN 13: 9780823253968

Publisher: Fordham University Press, 2013

Synopsis

The essays in this volume ask if and how trinitarian and pluralist discourses can enter into fruitful conversation with one another. Can trinitarian conceptions of divine multiplicity open the Christian tradition to more creative and affirming visions of creaturely identities, difference, and relationality―including the specific difference of religious plurality? Where might the triadic patterning evident in the Christian theological tradition have always exceeded the boundaries of Christian thought and experience? Can this help us to inhabit other religious traditions’ conceptions of divine and/or creaturely reality?
The volume also interrogates the possibilities of various discourses on pluralism by putting them in a concrete pluralist context and asking to what extent pluralist discourse can collect within itself a convergent diversity of orthodox, heterodox, postcolonial, process, poststructuralist, liberationist, and feminist sensibilities while avoiding irruptions of conflict, competition, or the logic of mutual exclusion.

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About the Author

Chris Boesel is associate professor of Christian theology at Drew Theological School in New Jersey. His work focuses on Kierkegaardian and Barthian approaches to confessional Christian faith and its relation to progressive ethical commitments to social justice in dialogue with liberation theologies and postmodern philosophies. He is the author of Risking Proclamation, Respecting Difference: Christian Faith, Imperialistic Discourse, and Abraham.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0823253961
• ISBN 13: 9780823253968
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 364
• Editor: Boesel Chris, Ariarajah S. Wesley