The Analogy of Faith
eBook - ePub

The Analogy of Faith

The Quest for God's Speakability

  1. 445 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Analogy of Faith

The Quest for God's Speakability

About this book

If God is transcendent, how can human beings speak meaningfully about him?For centuries philosophers and theologians have asked whether and how it is possible to talk about God. The shared answer to this question goes by the name of "analogy," which recognizes both similarity and difference between the divine being and human language. In the twentieth century, Karl Barth, Erich Przywara, Hans Urs von Balthasar and Eberhard Jüngel explored this question in new and controversial ways that continue to shape contemporary debates in theology.In The Analogy of Faith: The Quest for God's Speakability, Archie Spencer examines the problem of analogy in its ancient, medieval and modern forms. He argues for a Christological version of Barth?s analogy of faith, informed by Jüngel's analogy of advent, as the way forward for Protestant theology in answering the problem of God's speakability.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Abbreviations
  7. Introduction
  8. 1 The Classical Christian Roots of the Problem of Analogy
  9. 2 Thomas Aquinas and the Medieval Appropriation of Analogy
  10. 3 Analogy in Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics
  11. 4 Eberhard Jüngel: Appropriating the Analogy of Faith as Analogy of Advent
  12. 5 The Christological Content of Theology as Analogia Fidei
  13. Conclusions
  14. Notes
  15. Bibliography
  16. Name Index
  17. Subject Index
  18. Scripture Index
  19. Praise for Analogy of Faith
  20. About the Author
  21. More Titles from InterVarsity Press
  22. Copyright
  23. Strategic Initiatives in Evangelical Theology (SIET)