The domestication of transcendence : how modern thinking about God went wrong / William C. Placher.
By: Placher, William C. (William Carl)
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TextPublisher: Louisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press, [1996]Copyright date: ©1996Edition: First editionDescription: xii, 222 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 066425635X (acidfree paper)Subject(s): God -- History of doctrines | Theology, Doctrinal -- History -- Modern period, 1500- | Philosophy, Modern | GodDDC classification: 231/.09/03 LOC classification: BT98 | .P55 1996Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Introduction : theology and modernity -- Part 1. Three premodern theologies -- 2. Aquinas on the unknowable God -- 3. Luther, the cross, and the hidden God -- 4. Calvin's rhetoric of faith -- Part 2. The modern turn : God -- 5. The domestication of God -- 6. The domestication of grace -- part 3. The modern turn : God and the world -- 7. Nearer than we are to ourselves -- 8. Where God is and what God does : some modern problems -- 9. Grace and works in modern thought -- 10. The marginalization of the Trinity -- Part 4. Some critical retrievals -- 11. The image of the invisible God -- 12. Evil and divine transcendence.