
- 252 pages
- English
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About this book
Who is God? What is God's relation to the world? How is God disposed towards us? What does God ask of us? These questions are not mere intellectual puzzles. They matter for us. A disinterested theology would be no theology at all, for we are fundamentally, at our very core, invested in God. God is the one who concerns us most deeply. Put differently, any theology worth the name is, as Miroslav Volf has put it, theology "for a way of life." We ask theological questions as those whose lives depend on the God whose character we try to articulate in the answers--and also in the asking. How we ask and answer these questions gives shape to our lives.In this volume, published in Volf's honor, leading Christian, Jewish, and Muslim theological scholars reflect on the shapes flourishing human life takes in light of God. Considering concrete questions--from how to talk about suffering to the value of singing in congregational worship--in light of their deep theological commitments, the contributors exemplify the kind of theological reflection our cultures so deeply need.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Miroslav Volf and Theology of the Good Life
- Chapter 1: Alpha and Omega—and Everything in Between
- Chapter 2: Created for Their Own Sakes
- Chapter 3: God and the Ascent of Life
- Chapter 4: Like a Tree Planted by the Water
- Chapter 5: The Theory of Five Forces
- Chapter 6: Divine Beauty and Human Flourishing
- Chapter 7: Expectations
- Chapter 8: Joy and the Experience of Love
- Chapter 9: Theology, Violence, and White Spaces
- Chapter 10: Human Flourishing and Art that Enhances the Ordinary
- Chapter 11: Flourishing in Tito’s Yugoslavia
- Chapter 12: Reconciled in the Embrace of the Crucified
- Chapter 13: The Weight of the Past in the World of Love