God and Creation in Christian Theology: Tyranny and Empowerment?

How are God and creatures related? How can one reconcile the sovereigntyand power of God with creatures' capacity to act freely?

Kathryn Tanner's important and original work seeks an answer in the featuresand limits of traditional Christian discourse. Her search for a unique kernal orregulative dimension of the Christian doctrine of God-world relations leadsher to identify in the tradition an operative grammar of meaningful theological discourse that not only informs the past but can guide the future.

Author: Kathryn Tanner
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishing
Published: 11/19/2004
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.30w x 0.51d
ISBN: 9780800637378

About the Author
Tanner, Kathryn: -

Kathryn Tanner is Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor of Theology at the Divinity School, University of Chicago, and author of The Politics of God (1992), Theories of Culture (1997), and Jesus, Humanity, and the Trinity (2001), all from Fortress Press.

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