Post-Systematic Theology II : : The Trinitarian Adventure of Love - Ecological Ways of Creation, Humaning and Its Displacement / / Markus Mühling.

• Superior document: Schöningh, Fink and mentis Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2024
• VerfasserIn: Mühling, Markus,
• Place / Publishing House: Paderborn, Germany : : Brill Fink,, [2024]; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Schöningh, Fink and mentis Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (886 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

This second volume of the comprehensive and conceptual proposal of a Post-Systematic Theology – based on a phenomenological, narrative ontology – treats the trinitarian adventure of love, from the doctrine of God up to the doctrine of sin. In the doctrine of God, the distinctions of divine revealed personality, narrative divine unity, and the divine attributes are discussed. The ecological ways of creation deal with classical themes of creation as the image of the Trinity, cosmology, real possibilities, angels and aliens as well as biological evolution. Humans are presented as relational processes of becoming (humaning) in ontic solidarity to the created mesh. The chapter on hamartiology understands human sin as a misplaced becoming in this mesh. The volume concludes with a proposal for an ethos of creatureliness. Interdisciplinary considerations between theology, philosophy, and the natural sciences play a major role throughout the work.

Table of Contents

Front Cover -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Part 5 The Divine Love Adventure -- Chapter 28 Insights from the Ways of Thinking -- Chapter 29 Difference in God: The Threefold Personhood of God -- 29.1 The Problem -- 29.2 The 'Modern' Person in Locke and Fichte -- 29.3 Personhood and Purposiveness in Kant and Alexander of Hales -- 29.4 Personhood in Boethius -- 29.5 Excursus: The Problems of all Predicative Concepts of a Person -- 29.6 The Concept of a Person in Richard of St. Victor -- 29.7 The Contribution of Ramon Llull -- 29.8 Divine Persons as Particular Whence-and-Whither Becomings -- 29.9 The Traditional processiones and Relation of Order -- 29.10 The Personhood of the Spirit -- Chapter 30 Divine Narrative Unity -- 30.1 The Problem -- 30.2 The Becoming of God as an Open Event -- 30.3 God as Story -- 30.4 Divine Contingency and Chance -- 30.5 God is Adventure -- 30.5.1 The Use of Adventure by Hauerwas and Schlarb -- 30.5.2 A Short History of Adventure -- 30.5.3 'God is adventurous in the highest' - Luther's Theology of Adventure -- 30.5.4 The Adventure of the Becoming of God -- 30.5.5 The Adventure of God as Coincidence of Chance, Goodness, and Beauty -- 30.6 'God is Love' -- 30.6.1 The Biblical Foundation -- 30.6.2 Problematic Approaches and Prejudices -- 30.6.3 Augustine on Divine Self-Love -- 30.6.4 Richard Swinburne's Practical Modalism -- 30.6.5 Schleiermacher's 'Loving' Relation of Causality -- 30.6.6 Barth's God of Self-Love -- 30.6.7 The Treatment of the Problem of Love by Eberhard Jüngel -- 30.6.8 Jürgen Moltmann's Antinomy of Love -- 30.6.9 The Contribution of E.W.Chr. Sartorius -- 30.6.10 The Oscillating Love of Liebner -- 30.6.11 Zizioulas' Ontology of Love -- 30.6.12 Pannenberg's Person-Constitutive Power of Love -- 30.6.13 The Contribution of Richard of St. Victor for the Understanding of God as Love.

30.7 The Unity of God as the Perfect Adventure of Love -- 30.7.1 Divine Love as Surrender -- 30.7.2 Divine Love as Identity-constitutive Relationship of Mutual Fellowship -- 30.7.3 Divine Love as Power -- 30.7.4 Divine Love as a Way -- 30.7.5 Divine Love as Story -- 30.7.6 Divine Love as Perceiving Truth and Value -- 30.7.7 Divine Love as Adventure -- 30.8 Epilogue: The Unity of God as Perichoresis and Koinonia -- Chapter 31 Divine Attributes of Becoming -- 31.1 Problems in Talking about Divine Attributes within the Framework of a Narrative Ontology -- 31.2 The Problem of Simplicity of Divine Attributes -- 31.3 The Problem of a Dual-Series of Attributes -- 31.4 The Attributes of God as Love Adventure -- 31.4.1 God's Perfect Surrender -- 31.4.2 God's Perfect Faithfulness, Perfect Veracity, and Perfect Faith -- 31.4.3 God's Contingency, Freedom, Surprise, and Advent -- 31.4.4 God's Righteous Generosity -- 31.4.5 God's Reliability -- 31.4.6 God's Power, Ability to Act, and Capability to Suffer -- 31.4.7 God's Differentiated Consciousness -- 31.4.8 God's Mediality, Passivity, and Activity -- 31.4.9 God as Conversation -- 31.4.10 God's Bodiliness, Personal Presence, and Personal Transcendence -- 31.4.11 God's Eternity as God's Time -- 31.4.12 God's Infinity as Divine Space -- 31.4.13 Divine Truth and Goodness -- 31.4.14 Divine Beauty -- 31.4.15 Divine Dramatic Coherence -- Chapter 32 A Problematic Meta-Category: Monotheism -- Part 6 The Way of Creation as imago dilectionis -- Chapter 33 God's Capacity for Creation -- 33.1 Divine Omniscience and Omnipotence to be Claimed in Relation to Creation? -- 33.2 Talk of Verbs, Adverbs, Substantives, and Adjectives -- 33.3 Problems with Speaking about Divine Attributes in Relation to the World -- 33.4 The Phenomenal Basis of the Doctrine of Creation -- 33.5 God's Omnipotent Love in Relation to Creation.

33.6 God's Omniscient Love in Relation to Creation -- Chapter 34 Creatio ex nihilo and creatio continuata -- 34.1 Problems of creatio ex nihilo -- 34.2 Creatio ex nihilo as Rejection of an Emanentist Understanding of Creation -- 34.3 Creatio ex nihilo as Rejection of Worldly Presuppositions -- 34.4 The 'Mystical' Interpretation of creatio ex nihilo -- 34.5 Creatio as Logical Relationship of Conditionality -- 34.6 'What do you have that you have not received?' - The Phenomenal Background of the creatio ex nihilo -- 34.7 'nec ex materia' as Creation of Possibilities -- 34.8 Creatio ex nihilo and justificatio sola gratia: Nature as Grace -- 34.9 creatio continuata -- Chapter 35 Creation as imago trinitatis -- 35.1 Space-Time as imago dilectionis -- 35.2 The Question regarding Divine Ubiquity for God's Creation -- 35.3 Incarnation as the Son's Necessity and Mediation of Creation -- 35.4 Concarnation as Necessity of Creation and Mediation of Creation by the Spirit -- 35.5 Misleading Talk of Functionalities in the Mediation of Creation -- 35.6 Talk of Appropriations and the Hiddenness of the Father in Creation -- 35.7 Imago Dilectionis: The Becoming of Creation as Meshwork and Rule of Love -- 35.8 Est finis creationis gloria dei? -- 35.9 From Humanity as imago dei to Creation as imago dei -- 35.10 Goodness of Creation as Process and its Integrity -- Chapter 36 Creation and Cosmology -- 36.1 The Theological Obligation to Consider Cosmology -- 36.2 Main Features of Contemporary Cosmology -- 36.2.1 The Theoretical, Model-like Component and the Empirical Component of Cosmology -- 36.2.2 The Development of the Standard Model into the Current Λ-CDM-Model -- 36.3 A Theology of Creation's Approach to Λ-CDM -- Chapter 37 The Creation of Real Possibilities: Angels and Aliens -- 37.1 Transcendental Possibilistic, Providence, and Angelology.

37.2 Fantasy and Imagination -- 37.3 Strong and Weak Immersion into the Worlds of Fantasy -- 37.4 Angelology as Transcendental Possibilistic -- 37.4.1 'How Many Angels Can Dance on the Point of a Needle?' or 'Does Angelology have a Needless Point?' -- 37.4.2 The Basis of an Angelology in the Perception of Truth and Value of Primary Narrativity -- 37.4.3 Critique of 20th and 21st Century Angelology -- 37.4.3.1 Barth's Angels: A-Personal Functionality -- 37.4.3.2 Westermann's Angels: Narrationless Narrations -- 37.4.3.3 Rahner's Angels: High Cosmic Principles of Unity and Order -- 37.4.3.4 Moltmann's Angels: Creaturely Possibilities of a Creation Open to God -- 37.4.3.5 Welker's Angels: Transformative Forms of Transition -- 37.4.3.6 Pannenberg's Angels: Forces of Field of the Creative Spirit -- 37.4.3.7 Ruster's and Dürr's Angels: Emergences from Systems Theory -- 37.4.3.8 Heidtmann's Angels: Marginal Boundary Functions -- 37.4.3.9 Yong's Angels: Natural Philosophical Emergences -- 37.4.3.10 Herm's Angels: Experience of the Perception of Creatures as Messengers of the Personal Presence of God -- 37.4.3.11 Agamben's Angels: An Expression of the Theistic Antinomy of Power -- 37.4.3.12 Serres' Angels: Communicative References to the Reality of Love -- 37.5 Concrete Questions of Transcendental Possibilistic and Angelology -- 37.5.1 Are God's Actions Spatiotemporally Identifiable? -- 37.5.2 Can there be a Third 'something' between Creator and Creature? -- 37.5.3 Can Several Independent Creations Exist? -- 37.5.4 Is Humanity the Crown of Creation? -- 37.5.5 Are (intelligible) Living beings always Bodily-relationally Living beings? -- 37.5.6 In which Way are Living beings Always Constituted Narratively and Dynamically? -- 37.5.7 Can Creatures Contain Each Other? -- 37.5.8 Which Trajectories Influence the Dynamics of the Created Meshwork?.

37.5.9 Is a Cosmic 'mission' Necessary? -- 37.5.10 Are All Creatures in Need, or Capable, of Redemption? -- 37.5.11 Are Angels Personal? -- 37.5.12 What are Perfect Creaturely Responses to Revelation? -- 37.5.13 Where does Evil come from and What is it? -- 37.5.14 Is Evil Personal? -- 37.5.15 How is Evil Finally Overcome? -- 37.5.16 How are Creatures Involved in God's Action? -- 37.5.17 How does God's Action Show Up in the Life of Particular Life Stories? -- 37.5.18 Can Angels be Friends? -- 37.5.19 Do Communicants Disappear behind Communication? -- 37.5.20 Why did God Create a World with the Possibility of the Fall? -- Chapter 38 Creation and Evolution -- 38.1 Creation, Evolution, and Phenomenology -- 38.2 Expectations of a Theology of Creation on a Biological Understanding of Evolution -- 38.3 The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis in the 21st Century -- 38.3.1 Neo-Darwinism at the End of the 20th Century -- 38.3.2 Various Candidates for an Extension of Neo-Darwinism -- 38.3.3 Niche Construction as Evolution or Revolution of Evolutionary Theory -- 38.3.4 The Philosophical Implications of the Extended Evolutionary Theory -- 38.3.5 Critical Questions about the Extension of Neo-Darwinism by Niche-construction -- 38.3.6 Open Questions and Speculations about Evolution -- 38.4 Theological Approaches to Evolutionary Biology -- 38.4.1 The Lux-mundi Theology at the End of the 19th Century -- 38.4.2 Teilhard de Chardin in the First Half of the 20th Century -- 38.4.3 Gerd Theißen in the Second Half of the 20th Century -- 38.4.4 Sarah Coakley in the First Quarter of the 21st Century -- 38.5 Are the Theological Expectations fulfilled? -- 38.6 Summary -- Part 7 Anthropology and Hamartiology: Human Becoming in the Way of Creation -- Chapter 39 The Human as imago trinitatis -- 39.1 Imago personalitatis -- 39.2 Imago dilectionis: A Phenomenology of Love.

39.2.1 Is Love a Feeling?.