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Groaning of Creation: Final Thoughts
We share our final thoughts on The Groaning of Creation. Despite its relatively small size, it was densely packed with rich ideas to discuss and explore as Southgate covered a broad range of theologians and philosophers.
Here we give our final thoughts on this book.
We look forward for all our readers to join us for our next book in 2018.
Groaning of Creation – Chapter 6: “The Call of Humanity” – Part II
Is there a calling for all of us to be stewards of creation? Should we just preserve nature as it is, or must we be more active in re-creating it?
We will go over the middle sections of Chapter 6 in Christopher Southgate’s The Groaning of Creation.”
Please write an essay on one of the following questions:
UPDATE: “Groaning of Creation” – Chapter 4: Part III
Does God need to experience pain and suffering like we do necessary for Objective atonement?
We complete chapter 4 of Christopher Southgate’s The Groaning of Creation.
Here are our essays.
Chapter 4: “An Adventure in the Theology of Creation” – Part II
Deep intratrinitarian kenosis
We will finish the rest of Chapter 4 of Southgate’s The Groaning of Creation.
Please answer one of the questions below:
UPDATE: Chapter 4.4 – “Developing a Theology of Evolutionary Creation”
Does evolutionary creation lend itself to self-transcendence?
During our conversation last Sunday, we had a hard time trying to grasp Southgate’s meaning of the word “transcendence”. We also had a hard time defining the word “love” as well in a philosophical sense. Seems simple enough until you get down the deep theological and philosophical aspects of it rather than the simple everyday notions of the word “love”.
Here are our essays.
UPDATE: Chapter 4: “An Adventure in the Theology of Creation” – Part I
Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905 – 1988), Swiss Roman Catholic theologian
We had another intense conversation this past Sunday as we began our first dip into Chapter 4 of Southgate’s book.
We discussed topics on God’s passability and suffering, whether or not God could attain new levels of self-actualization, the relationship of the persons within the Trinity, whether or not consciousness exists in inorganic matter, if God created an ambiguous world, and Jurgen Moltmann’s and Hans Urs von Balthasar’s views on kenosis and the Trinity.
Yes, we covered a lot of topics to say the least.
Here are our essays.
“The Groaning of Creation” – Chapter 4: “An Adventure in the Theology of Creation” – Part I
Did God the Father grieve when Jesus suffered and died? If so, then did God change? Does God change if he suffers? Can God experience new things? Grünewald, Matthias “The Crucifixion”, 1515; Detail from the Isenheim altarpiece
We will cover the first three sections of Chapter 4 of Southgate’s The Groaning of Creation.
UPDATE: “Confessions: Book VI – Chapters 9 – 16
Saint Augustine, detail from the Doctors of the Church Cycle, 1487-1492, fresco, Church of the Santissima Annunziata, Franciscan Monastery, Cortemaggiore, Emilia-Romagna. Italy, 15th century.
We conclude Book VI of “Confessions” with essays on self-interest vs. public interest in political offices, the role of the Church and her teachings on premarital sex, and thoughts on universal salvation and a glimpse into the true cost of forgiveness and grace.
Read them here.
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