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Faith and freedom : an interfaith perspective / David Burrell

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Challenges in contemporary theologyPublication details: Malden, USA, Blackwell Publishing, ©2004Description: xxi, 266 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 140512170X
  • 1405121718
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • ARCH YNDC 231 B969F 22
LOC classification:
  • BT55 .B87 2004
Contents:
Distinguishing God from the world -- The unknowability of God in al-Ghazali -- Why not pursue the metaphor of artisan and view God's knowledge as practical? -- Maimonides, Aquinas, and Gersonides on providence and evil -- Aquinas' debt to Maimonides -- Creation and "actualism" : the dialectical dimension of philosophical theology -- Aquinas and Scotus : contrary patterns for philosophical theology -- From analogy of "being" to the analogy of being -- The challenge to medieval Christian philosophy : relating Creator to creatures -- Freedom and creation in the Abrahamic traditions -- Al-Ghazali on created freedom -- Creation, will, and knowledge in Aquinas and Duns Scotus -- God, religious pluralism, and dialogic encounter -- The Christian distinction celebrated and expanded -- Incarnation and creation : the hidden dimension -- Assessing statements of faith : Augustine and Etty Hillesum
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Archives Archives SAIACS Archives Room Yandell Collection ARCH YNDC 231 B969F (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 064922

Includes bibliographical references and index

Distinguishing God from the world -- The unknowability of God in al-Ghazali -- Why not pursue the metaphor of artisan and view God's knowledge as practical? -- Maimonides, Aquinas, and Gersonides on providence and evil -- Aquinas' debt to Maimonides -- Creation and "actualism" : the dialectical dimension of philosophical theology -- Aquinas and Scotus : contrary patterns for philosophical theology -- From analogy of "being" to the analogy of being -- The challenge to medieval Christian philosophy : relating Creator to creatures -- Freedom and creation in the Abrahamic traditions -- Al-Ghazali on created freedom -- Creation, will, and knowledge in Aquinas and Duns Scotus -- God, religious pluralism, and dialogic encounter -- The Christian distinction celebrated and expanded -- Incarnation and creation : the hidden dimension -- Assessing statements of faith : Augustine and Etty Hillesum

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