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Author Quash, Ben

Title Theology and the drama of history / Ben Quash
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 235 pages)
Series Cambridge studies in Christian doctrine ; 13
Cambridge studies in Christian doctrine ; 13.
Contents Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Dramatizing theology; 2 Freedom and indifference The cast, the stage and the action, part i; 3 Epic history and the question of tragedy The cast, the stage and the action, part ii; 4 Eschatology and the existential register The cast, the stage and the action, part iii; 5 Analogy's unaccountable scaffolding; 6 Theodramatics, history and the Holy Spirit; Postscript; Select bibliography; Index
Summary How can theology think and talk about history? This book engages in dialogue both with theologians and philosophers like von Balthasar, Hegel and Barth, and with poets and dramatists including Aeschylus, Shakespeare and Gerard Manley Hopkins to develop radical new ways of articulating the mystery of divine and human freedom
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Balthasar, Hans Urs von, 1905-1988. Theodramatik
SUBJECT Theodramatik (Balthasar, Hans Urs von) fast
Subject History -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Religion and drama.
History -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Religion and drama
Theodramatik
Historia -- religiƶsa aspekter.
Teologi.
Dramateori.
Form Electronic book
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