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God and Creation in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas and Karl Barth

God and Creation in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas and Karl Barth

Wittman, Tyler R.

Hardcover

Religion General General Christianity

ISBN10: 110847067X
ISBN13: 9781108470674
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Nov 15 2018
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.30
Height: 0.90 Width: 9.20 Depth: 6.20
Language: English
The legacies of Thomas Aquinas and Karl Barth remain influential for contemporary theologians, who have increasingly put them into conversation on debated questions over analogy and the knowledge of God. However, little explicit dialogue has occurred between their theologies of God. This book offers one of the first extended analyzes of this fundamental issue, asking how each theologian seeks to confess in fact and in thought God's qualitative distinctiveness in relation to creation. Wittman first examines how they understand the correspondence and distinction between God's being and external acts within an overarching concern to avoid idolatry. Second, he analyzes the kind of relation God bears to creation that follows from these respective understandings. Despite many common goals, Aquinas and Barth ultimately differ on the subject matter of theological reason with consequences for their ability to uphold God's distinctiveness consistently. These mutually informative issues offer some important lessons for contemporary theology.

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