Divine Multiplicity : : Trinities, Diversities, and the Nature of Relation / / ed. by Chris Boesel, S. Wesley Ariarajah.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• MitwirkendeR: Ariarajah, S. Wesley,; Biernacki, Loriliai,; Boesel, Chris,; Clayton, Philip,; Erickson, Jacob J.,; Faber, Roland,; Heim, S. Mark,; Hillgardner, Holly,; Hoffmeyer, John F.,; Laurent, Sam,; Rigby, Cynthia L.,; Rosenau, Sara,; Tanner, Kathryn,; Trozzo, Eric,
• HerausgeberIn: Ariarajah, S. Wesley,; Boesel, Chris,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (364 p.)

The essays in this volume ask if and how trinitarian and pluralist discourses can enter into fruitful conversation with one another. Can trinitarian conceptions of divine multiplicity open the Christian tradition to more creative and affirming visions of creaturely identities, difference, and relationality—including the specific difference of religious plurality? Where might the triadic patterning evident in the Christian theological tradition have always exceeded the boundaries of Christian thought and experience? Can this help us to inhabit other religious traditions’ conceptions of divine and/or creaturely reality?The volume also interrogates the possibilities of various discourses on pluralism by putting them in a concrete pluralist context and asking to what extent pluralist discourse can collect within itself a convergent diversity of orthodox, heterodox, postcolonial, process, poststructuralist, liberationist, and feminist sensibilities while avoiding irruptions of conflict, competition, or the logic of mutual exclusion.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction: The Whence and the Whither of “Divine Multiplicity” -- Philosophical Explorations: Divinity, Diversity, Depth -- The God Who Is (Not) One: Of Elephants, Blind Men, and Disappearing Tigers -- God’s Vitality: Creative Tension and the Abyss of Différance within the Divine Life -- Polyphilic Pluralism: Becoming Religious Multiplicities -- Interreligious Explorations: Religious Diversity and Divine Multiplicity -- Abhinavagupta’s Theogrammatical Topography of the One and the Many -- One and the Many: The Struggle to Understand Plurality within the Indian Tradition and Its Implications for the Debate on Religious Plurality Today -- Differential Pluralism and Trinitarian Theologies of Religion -- Spirited Transformations: Pneumatology as a Resource for Comparative Theology -- Theo-Anthropological Explorations: Queer God, Strange Creatures, Storied Spirit -- Excess, Reversibility, and Apophasis: Rereading Gender in Feminist Trinities -- Doxological Diversities and Canticle Multiplicities: The Trinitarian Anthropologies of David H. Kelsey and Ivone Gebara -- The Holy Spirit, the Story of God -- Doctrinal Explorations: Trinity, Christology, and the Quality of Relation -- Absolute Difference -- Multiplicity and Christocentric Theology -- Divine Relationality and (the Methodological Constraints of ) the Gospel as Piece of News: Tracing the Limits of Trinitarian Ethics -- The Universe, Raw: Saying Something about Everything -- NOTES -- CONTRIBUTORS