Vulnerability and Glory
A Theological Account
1st Edition
Published on 28. October 2010
224 pages
978-1-61164-080-9 (ISBN)
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Disasters indicate the complex peril of earthly existence. Suffering and risk are global realities. Yet, the biblical depiction of persons and communities as "earthen vessels" also suggests that vulnerable creatures can be strengthened to receive and bear the grace and glory of God. Culp demonstrates how vulnerability to devastation and to transformation is the very basis for life before God. The glory of God may be witnessed in resistance to inhumanity and idolatry, and expressed in delight and gratitude for the good gifts of life.
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Kristine Culp is associate professor of theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School. She works in constructive theology, especially in relation to feminist theologies and theology in North America. She has written on protest and resistance as theological themes, the use of fiction in theological thinking, a theology of Christian community, feminist and womanist theologies, and "experience" in contemporary theology. She is the editor of the LTE book The Responsibility of the Church for Society and Other Essays by H. Richard Niebuhr.
Content
- Intro
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Vulnerable to Devastation and Transformation
- Vulnerability
- Life before God
- Overview
- Part 1: Vulnerability and Community
- Chapter 1: From Paul's Earthen Vessel to Augustine's Mixed Body
- Paul: Vulnerable Vessels, Glorious Treasure
- Irenaeus: Reliability and Renewal
- Second and Third Centuries: "The Pivot of Salvation"
- The Problem of Ambiguity within Churches
- Cyprian's Spiritual-Structural Unity
- Changing Circumstances
- The Visible and Invisible Church in Augustine
- Dynamic Complexity or Stability and Mastery?
- Chapter 2: Assembled under the Cross: Martin Luther's Christendom
- The Sign of the Cross
- Captivity
- The Treasure of the Gospel
- The Creative Power of the Word
- Paradox: The Visible and the Hidden Church
- Multiple Strategies
- Chapter 3: Calvin on Corruption and Transformation
- "How God's Glory May Be Kept Safe on Earth"
- Idolatry and Corruption
- Divine Accommodation
- Advancing toward Holiness
- The Face of the Church Becomes Visible
- Outward Marks
- Patterning the Christian Life
- Vulnerability, Ambiguity, and Transformation
- Chapter 4: Modern Treasure?
- An Inadequate Approach: The Antithesis of Visible and Invisible Church
- Brunner's Communicating Communion
- Gustafson's Treasure in Earthen Vessels
- Ruether, Reformation, and Redemption
- Beyond Strategies of Invulnerability
- Part 2: Transformation and Devastation
- Chapter 5: A Field of Tensions and Conversions
- Calling and Sending
- "Whoever Welcomes ."
- Situated in the Midst of Life
- Turned toward the Glory of God
- Christianity as Converting Movement
- Chapter 6: Vulnerability in a World Marked by Suffering
- A World Marked by Suffering
- Reengaging the Sign of the Cross
- Going through Suffering
- Calvin on Bearing the Cross
- Alternative Pedagogies?
- Ways of Living before God
- Part 3: Living before God
- Chapter 7: Always Reforming, Always Resisting
- Marie Durand: "Résister" as Testimony
- A Call to Resist Idolatry
- A Call to Resist the Denial of Human Dignity and the Degradation of Life
- A Call to Critique Theology's Own Idolatries
- Struggle and a Via Negativa
- Always Reforming, Always Resisting
- Chapter 8: An Itinerary of Delight and Gratitude
- Dissatisfaction
- Walking in Faith
- Reorientation
- Delight in God and in Life
- A Corporate Via Afirmativa
- Notes
- Index
