Drama of the divine economy : creator and creation in early Christian theology and piety / Paul M. Blowers.
| Author/creator |
Blowers, Paul M., 1955- |
| Other author/creator | Oxford University Press. |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Edition | 1st ed. |
| Publication Info | Oxford : Oxford University Press, |
| Description | xv, 424 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online Religion |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online |
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| Series | Oxford early Christian studies Oxford early Christian studies. |
| Contents | 1. Introduction -- 2. Legacies of Greco-Roman cosmological wisdom -- 3. Legacies of Hellenistic-Jewish cosmological wisdom -- 4. The shaping of normative discourse about creator and creation in pre-Nicene Christianity -- 5. Creation in the mirror of scripture I: patristic approaches to the Genesis creation story -- 6. Toward a Christian theology of the beginning (and end) of the world -- 7. Creation in the mirror of scripture II: patristic approaches to the biblical witnesses beyond Genesis -- 8. Christ the creator and the creator spirit: the cosmic drama of the incarnation and the remaking of creation -- 9. Performing faith in the creator: the drama of the divine economy as the framework of devotional and ritual practices in the early church -- Epilogue: Drama of the divine economy. |
| Abstract | The theology of creation interconnected with virtually every aspect of early Christian thought, from Trinitarian doctrine to salvation to ethics. Paul M. Blowers provides an advanced introduction to the multiplex relation between Creator and creation as an object both of theological construction and religious devotion in the early church. While revisiting the polemical dimension of Christian responses to Greco-Roman philosophical cosmology and heterodox Gnostic and Marcionite traditions on the origin, constitution, and destiny of the cosmos, Blowers focuses more substantially on the positive role of patristic theological interpretation of Genesis and other biblical creation texts in eliciting Christian perspectives on the multifaceted relation between Creator and creation. Greek, Syriac, and Latin patristic commentators, Blowers argues, were ultimately motivated less by purely cosmological concerns than by the urge to depict creation as the enduring creative and redemptive strategy of the Trinity. The 'drama of the divine economy', which Blowers discerns in patristic theology and piety, unfolded how the Creator invested the 'end' of the world already in its beginning, and thereupon worked through the concrete actions of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit to realize a new creation. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [381]-403) and indexes. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2012532066 |
| ISBN | 9780199660414 |
| ISBN | 0199660417 |
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