Divine Multiplicity
Trinities, Diversities, and the Nature of Relation
Divine Multiplicity
Trinities, Diversities, and the Nature of Relation
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Publisher: Fordham University Press
ISBN: 9780823253951
Number of Pages: 364
Published: 11/11/2013
Width: 15.2 cm
Height: 22.9 cm
The essays in this volume ask if and how trinitarian and pluralist discourses can enter into fruitful conversation with one another. Can trinitarian conceptions of divine multiplicity open the Christian tradition to more creative and affirming visions of creaturely identities, difference, and relationality—including the specific difference of religious plurality? Where might the triadic patterning evident in the Christian theological tradition have always exceeded the boundaries of Christian thought and experience? Can this help us to inhabit other religious traditions' conceptions of divine and/or creaturely reality?
The volume also interrogates the possibilities of various discourses on pluralism by putting them in a concrete pluralist context and asking to what extent pluralist discourse can collect within itself a convergent diversity of orthodox, heterodox, postcolonial, process, poststructuralist, liberationist, and feminist sensibilities while avoiding irruptions of conflict, competition, or the logic of mutual exclusion.
Acknowledgments Introduction: The Whence and the Whither of "Divine Multiplicity" | Chris Boesel and S. Wesley Ariarajah PART I : PHILOSOPHICAL EXPLORATIONS: DIVINITY, DIVERSITY, DEPTH The God Who Is (Not) One: Of Elephants, Blind Men, and Disappearing Tigers | Philip Clayton God's Vitality: Creative Tension and the Abyss of Diff erance within the Divine Life | Eric Trozzo Polyphilic Pluralism: Becoming Religious Multiplicities | Roland Faber and Catherine Keller PART I I : INTERRELIGIOUS EXPLORATIONS: RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY AND DIVINE MULTIPLICITY Abhinavagupta's Theogrammatical Topography of the One and the Many | Loriliai Biernacki One and the Many: The Struggle to Understand Plurality within the Indian Tradition and Its Implications for the Debate on Religious Plurality Today | S. Wesley Ariarajah Diff erential Pluralism and Trinitarian Theologies of Religion | S. Mark Heim Spirited Transformations: Pneumatology as a Resource for Comparative Theology | Holly Hillgardner PART I I I : THEO-ANTHROPOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS: QUEER GOD, STRANGE CREATURES, STORIED SPIRIT Excess, Reversibility, and Apophasis: Rereading Gender in Feminist Trinities | Sara Rosenau Doxological Diversities and Canticle Multiplicities: The Trinitarian Anthropologies of David H. Kelsey and Ivone Gebara | Jacob J. Erickson The Holy Spirit, the Story of God | Sam Laurent PART I V : DOCTRINAL EXPLORATIONS: TRINITY, CHRISTOLOGY, AND THE QUALITY OF RELATION Absolute Diff erence | Kathryn Tanner Multiplicity and Christocentric Theology | John F. Hoff meyer Divine Relationality and (the Methodological Constraints of ) the Gospel as Piece of News: Tracing the Limits of Trinitarian Ethics | Chris Boesel The Universe, Raw: Saying Something about Everything | Cynthia L. Rigby Notes List of Contributors
"This volume presents a scholarly conversation around some of the burning issues in theology and in religious dialogue today. Indeed it helps a conversation that is pressing to our time to gain momentum and a sense of direction, to move forward with compelling velocity." -- -Anna Mercedes College of St. Benedict "This book is groundbreaking in that it pushes the boundary both of religious studies, theologies of religion, systematic and constructive theology, philosophy of religion, and comparative theology." -- -Marion Grau School of the Pacific
