The Dialectics of Creation: Creation and the Creator in Edward Schillebeeckx and David Burrell
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This book investigates the philosophical components of Christian faith in creation, by analyzing the distinction and the relation between creation and its Creator.The writings of Edward Schillebeeckx and David Burrell supply a terminology of distinction and relation that shapes the discourse, following in the footsteps of Aquinas. Poulsom elucidates the relational dialectic in the thought of Schillebeeckx as a way of thinking about the Creation and offers a helpful comparison with the thought of David Burrell. Relational dialectic is an organizing principle, not only of Schillebeeckx's account of creation, but of his philosophical theology more generally. It can operate as a hermeneutic for his material on praxis and humanism, in a way that resolves some problems noted by other Schillebeeckx scholars. Poulsom's interpretation of Schillebeeckx enriches current approaches to this thinker and offers a significant contribution to thinking on the doctrine of Creation and issues surrounding the 'ontological distinction' which is of major concern in philosophical theology today.
This book discusses Schillebeeckian relational dialectic as a hermeneutic for twenty-first century theology of creation, and for philosophical theology as a whole.
Puts forward 'relational dialectic' as a hermeneutic for Schillebeeckx's theology
Proposes Schillebeeckx's works as a resource for 21st century philosophical theology
Discusses Schillebeeckx's and Burrell's understanding of the relation between the Creator and the world
Introduction
1. The Structure of Discourse
2.Investigating Complementarity I: Common Ground
3. Investigating Complementarity II: Complementary Emphases and Dialectic
4. Relational Dialectic in Schillebeeckx's Philosophical Theology
5. Schillebeeckian Relational Dialectic I: Aquinas on Analogy
6. Schillebeeckian Relational Dialectic II: Prospects for Philosophical Theology
Bibliography
Index
Martin Poulsom argues in this insightful book how Edward Schillebeeckx in his theology of creation supports the classical theological insight that the world is not-God and totally other-than-God.
In this book, Martin Poulsom has advanced scholarship on a number of fronts ... Poulsom's work will be of great benefit to anyone interested in both cutting-edge and enduring questions of a theology of creation.
Poulsom's philosophically nuanced study offers a much-needed classically oriented Schillebeeckian foundation for exploring the most controversial theological questions evoked by creation science today.
- Title: The Dialectics of Creation: Creation and the Creator in Edward Schillebeeckx and David Burrell
- Author: Martin G. Poulsom
- Publisher: T&T Clark
- Print Publication Date: 2014
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9780567018014, 9780567664983, 0567664988, 0567018016
- Resource ID: LLS:9780567018014
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-05-12T03:09:47Z
Martin G. Poulsom SDB is a Salesian of Don Bosco, and a Lecturer in Theology at Heythrop College, University of London, UK.