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Exploring the Glory of God

New Horizons for a Theology of Glory

Exploring the Glory of God

New Horizons for a Theology of Glory

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Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9781978708914
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 24/11/2020
Width: 16.1 cm
Height: 23.1 cm

With the aim of envisioning new horizons for a theology of glory, this book offers fresh biblical, theological, and scientific perspectives on the subject of divine self-revelation and human response to the manifestations of divine presence. The first four chapters explore the biblical origins of divine glory within the nation of Israel, the glorious encounter between Moses and God, and the Christological dimensions of glory in Johannine and Pauline writings. These chapters demonstrate how the biblical text inherently weaves aspects of creation, calling, covenant relationship, revelation, Christology, ecclesiology, and eschatology into a remarkable tapestry of divine glory. Five theological essays cover the role of the Holy Spirit and the worshipful response of believers to the glory of God, as well as expositions on the glory-themed writings of Jonathan Edwards, Karl Barth, Oscar Romero, and Etty Hillesum. These theological writers provoke challenging questions by emphasizing how the theme of glory paradoxically encompasses both otherworldly perfection and worldly sinfulness. This book concludes with two chapters that focus on the natural and physical sciences, revealing how God’s glory is displayed in the heavens and on earth. The chapters in this book demonstrate the importance of the subject of divine glory in the study of the nature of the triune God.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Adesola Akala

Chapter One: “Show Me Your Glory” (Exodus 33:18): An Exegetical Analysis of Moses’ Request in the Context of Exodus 32-34

Rebecca G. S. Idestrom

Chapter Two: “To See My Glory”: Jesus and the Dynamics of Glory in John’s Gospel

David F. Ford

Chapter Three: Presence, Radiance, and Rule: Rethinking Paul’s ‘Glory-Christology’

Haley Goranson Jacob

Chapter Four: The Glory of God in the People of God: Participating in the Intensity of the Spirit’s Life

Tom Greggs

Chapter Five: “A True Sense of the Glory of God:” Jonathan Edwards and the Beatific Vision

William M. Schweitzer

Chapter Six: No Cowering Down: Glory, Election and Worship in Karl Barth’s Doctrines of God

Keith Starkenburg

Chapter Seven: Glory in a 20th Century Mystic: Reflection on the Experience of Etty Hillesum (1914-43)

Christopher Southgate

Chapter Eight: Vivens Pauper: An Exploration of the Good Life with Óscar Romero

Edgardo Colón-Emeric

Chapter Nine: Jonathan Edwards and the Glory of the Natural Sciences

Joanna Leidenhag

Chapter Ten: God’s Glory in the Physical Universe

Peter Bussey

About the Contributors

Adesola Joan Akala, Rebecca G. S. Idestrom

Adesola Akala is research fellow at St John’s College, Durham University.

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