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1 online resource (356 pages) |
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Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1. Thinking with Matter; From Metaphysics to Physics and Back Again; Getting to the Bottom of the Matter; What My Position Is Not, Number One: Berkeley's Immaterialism; What My Position Is Not, Number Two: Emergent Materialism; What My Position Is Not, Number Three: The World as God's Body; A Short Note on the Revision of Doctrine; A First Approximation of My Position: Matter as One of God's Perfections; 2. A Brief History of the Metaphysics of Matter; How the Greeks Invented the Impossibility of Understanding Matter . . .; ... and then Invented Immateriality |
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How the Stoics Provided an Alternative and Tertullian Almost Said What I Want to SayHow Plotinus and the Gnostics Made Matters Worse; How Irenaeus Pointed the Way Forward; 3. Binding Matter, Unbinding God; The Greek Shock to the Christian Worldview; Some Problems with Creation Out of Nothing; A Brief Look at Infinity; David Hart Goes for Broke; Gunton Goes Against Augustine; 4. Anthropomorphism, Corporeality, and the New Consensus about God; The New Biblical Hermeneutics; Did They See Jesus?; Could They Have Seen Anything Else? (The Cognitive Foundations of Anthropomorphism) |
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Origen Goes Out on a LimbThe Origenist Crisis; Jüngel at the Limits of Anthropomorphism; 5. What Flesh Is This?; Is the Claim that Jesus Christ Is Eternal Necessarily Heretical?; Nicaea Sets the Stage, and Chalcedon Muddies the Waters; A Note on the Dominical Man; Culprit Number One: Who Was Apelles?; Culprit Number Two: What Did Apollinaris Really Think?; Hilary of Poitiers; Cyril of Alexandria (and Nestorius too, of Course); Culprit Number Three: Don't Forget Eutyches!; The Monophysites Soldier On; Jenson's Fuss; 6. More Resources: Scotus, Schwenckfeld, and the Transfiguration; Scotus |
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Schwenckfeld(Luther and Calvin Respond, Quite Negatively); Transfiguration; 7. Thomas Aquinas on Relations, Personhood, and Matter; Thinking through Immateriality; Aquinas Rejects Universal Matter; In Whose Image?; Augustine Goes Mental: From the Psychological to the Sociological; A Family of Relations; Whose Causality?; Aquinas on Suitability; Aquinas's Five Ways (to Defeat Celestial Flesh); Conceiving Conception; Traducianism versus Creationism; Locating the Resurrected Body; The Invisible Image; 8. Karl Barth's Christological Metaphysics; Two Metaphysics and One Variegated Rhetoric |
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Barth on the Metaphysics of RelationalityFrom Process to Event; Barth Breaks Out; Barth Backs Down; Barth Does His Best Joseph Smith; The McCormack Controversy; 9. Godbodied: The Matter of the Latter-day Saints; A Necessary Dialogue; Eternal Matter without Pantheism; Evidence That Demands Our Amazement; Eternal Man or Eternal Jesus?; Hermetic Alchemists in Christian Disguise?; Multiverse Cosmology; The History of Christ's Pre-existence; A Creedal-Mormon Creed; 10. A Conclusion by Way of a Metaphysical Beginning; Providence and the De-Platonization of Theology; Personhood and Mystery |
| Summary |
In this groundbreaking study, Stephen H. Webb offers a new theological understanding of the material and spiritual: that, far from being contradictory, they unite in the very stuff of the eternal Jesus Christ. Accepting matter as a perfection (or predicate) of the divine requires a rethinking of the immateriality of God, the doctrine of creation out of nothing, the Chalcedonian formula of the person of Christ, and the analogical nature of religious language. It also requires a careful reconsideration of Augustine's appropriation of the Neo-Platonic understanding of divine incorporeality as wel |
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Jesus Christ -- Humanity
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Jesus Christ fast |
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Matter -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Materialism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Matter -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Humanity of Jesus Christ
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Materialism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Electronic book
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9780199827961 |
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0199827966 |
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