This book focuses on conceptualizing "God" not as a static entity but as an ephemeral event or, more precisely, an atmospheric reality. It presents, discusses, and elaborates on the claim that God is identical with the divine effects, i.e., God's existence is God's effective essence. The thesis of the book implies a repudiation of 'metaphysical' accounts that conceptualize God as a supranatural entity based on a rigid ontology. If God is not a metaphysical supplement to the world, the question arises as to how one must think about God to be truly referring to God. The author deals with this question by elaborating on three claims: (1) God's being is identical with God's acting; (2) divine action towards humans is constituted by God's revelation; and (3) the revelatory divine action results in a new understanding of humans and the world. Combining these claims leads to relocating God's works and thus the divine being. There is no separate referent that has been added to the world, but a new and irreducible reference to the world. This transformation from substance-metaphysical thinking to an understanding in performances is called a modalization of faith. The consequences of this theological upheaval for a post-metaphysical conception of God are worked out in a dialogue with hermeneutical theology and its philosophical foundations.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Preface to German Edition
- Preface to the English Edition
- Translator’s Note
- Introduction: On the Uses and Advantages of Hermeneutical Theology
- 1 Beyond Orthodoxy and Liberalism: Hermeneutical Theology as a Post-Metaphysical Project
- 2 God as No-Thing: On the Deobjectification of Theology’s Object
- 3 The Decisive Paradox: Barth, Bultmann, and the Unavailability of the Word
- 4 Once Again: Theology as Science: Bultmann Reads Heidegger – An Ambivalent Perusal
- 5 Passing in Parables: Ernst Fuchs on the Sacrament of Faith
- 6 Understanding Oneself in God: On Faith’s Self-Understanding: Its Reason and Abyss
- 7 God and Phenomena: On the Event and Its Theological Horizon
- 8 Seeing Everything Differently?: Reconceptualizing the World in Ambivalence
- 9 Praying and Receiving: The Hermeneutics of Petitionary Prayer
- Afterword: At the Margins: Thinking in a Different Mood
- Bibliography
- Index of Subjects
- Index of Names
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