God being nothing : toward a theogony / Ray L. Hart.

By: Hart, Ray L

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Religion and postmodernism: Publisher: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016Description: xii, 282 p. ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 022635962X; 9780226359625Subject(s): Philosophical theology | Postmodern theology | God

DDC classification: 211 LOC classification: BT103 | .H385 2016

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Summary: In this long-awaited work, Ray L. Hart offers a radical speculative theology that profoundly challenges classical understandings of the divine. God Being Nothing contests the conclusions of numerous orthodoxies through a probing question: How can thinking of God reach closure when the subjects of creation are themselves unfinished, when God's self-revelation in history is ongoing, when the active manifestation of God is still occurring? Drawing on a lifetime of reading in philosophy and religious thought, Hart unfolds a vision of God perpetually in process: an unfinished God being self-created from nothingness. Breaking away from the traditional focus on divine persons, Hart reimagines the Trinity in terms of theogony, cosmogony, and anthropogony in order to reveal an ever-emerging Godhead who encompasses all of temporal creation and, within it, human existence. The book's ultimate implication is that Being and Nonbeing mutually participate in an ongoing process of divine coming-to-birth and dying that implicates all things, existent and nonexistent, temporal and eternal. God's continual generation from nothing manifests the full actualization of freedom: the freedom to create ex nihilo.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-271) and index.

Frontmatter --
_tContents --
_tPreface --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tAn Imperfect Overview --
_tIntroduction. Pre-facing the Divine --
_tTopos 1. Theogony (Θεογονία): Godhead and God --
_tTopos 2. Cosmogony (Κοσμογονία): God and Creature --
_tTopos 3. Anthropogony: Creature and God --
_tPostscript. Afterthinking Theology as Hermeneutics --
_tAppendix A: What Did the Cartesian Cogito Establish as a Starting Point for Thinking the Human Being Who Thinks God? --
_tAppendix B: Fault and Fall in Human Existence --
_tNotes --
_tSelected Bibliography --
_tIndex

In this long-awaited work, Ray L. Hart offers a radical speculative theology that profoundly challenges classical understandings of the divine. God Being Nothing contests the conclusions of numerous orthodoxies through a probing question: How can thinking of God reach closure when the subjects of creation are themselves unfinished, when God's self-revelation in history is ongoing, when the active manifestation of God is still occurring? Drawing on a lifetime of reading in philosophy and religious thought, Hart unfolds a vision of God perpetually in process: an unfinished God being self-created from nothingness. Breaking away from the traditional focus on divine persons, Hart reimagines the Trinity in terms of theogony, cosmogony, and anthropogony in order to reveal an ever-emerging Godhead who encompasses all of temporal creation and, within it, human existence. The book's ultimate implication is that Being and Nonbeing mutually participate in an ongoing process of divine coming-to-birth and dying that implicates all things, existent and nonexistent, temporal and eternal. God's continual generation from nothing manifests the full actualization of freedom: the freedom to create ex nihilo.

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