Divine Empathy
A Theology of God
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Divine Empathy: A Theology of God
A major work from one of today's leading
theologians, Divine Empathy attempts
to "think the unthinkable," how God comes
forth actively and redemptively to meet the
human situation.
Apologetic but not polemical, Farley's work sympathetically engages yet moves beyond both the classical tradition as well as contemporary anti-theisms in formulating a concept of God that is strikingly original, intellectually honest, and comprehensive. Farley's treatise employs the "facticity of redemption," the actual experience of freedom and empowerment, as the primordial source for our thinking about God (Part 1), God-symbols (Part 2), and God's activity (Part 3), including the figure of Jesus. Farley's astute analysis leads inexorably to a view of divine creativity and empathy that is one of the more profound religious visions of our time.
Apologetic but not polemical, Farley's work sympathetically engages yet moves beyond both the classical tradition as well as contemporary anti-theisms in formulating a concept of God that is strikingly original, intellectually honest, and comprehensive. Farley's treatise employs the "facticity of redemption," the actual experience of freedom and empowerment, as the primordial source for our thinking about God (Part 1), God-symbols (Part 2), and God's activity (Part 3), including the figure of Jesus. Farley's astute analysis leads inexorably to a view of divine creativity and empathy that is one of the more profound religious visions of our time.
- Publisher Fortress Press
- Format Paperback
- ISBN 9780800629762
- Pages 336
- Dimensions 6 x 9
- Publication Date November 22, 1996
Endorsements
"What are they putting in the water at Vanderbilt? Such an excellent book! Clearly written, profoundly learned, shaped by contemporary science as well as the values of piety, it offers an original approach and profound insights into the fundamental question of God, God-symbols, and God's activity in the world."
— Elizabeth A. Johnson, Fordham University
"Divine Empathy is a full-scale constructive theology of God and God's relation to the world. It deserves a place alongside of the classics of twentieth-century theology. Farley brings his erudition to a wide range of theological issues. His constructive proposals are insightful and profound. They will mark the discussion for years to come."
— Francis Schussler Fiorenza, Harvard Divinity School
— Elizabeth A. Johnson, Fordham University
"Divine Empathy is a full-scale constructive theology of God and God's relation to the world. It deserves a place alongside of the classics of twentieth-century theology. Farley brings his erudition to a wide range of theological issues. His constructive proposals are insightful and profound. They will mark the discussion for years to come."
— Francis Schussler Fiorenza, Harvard Divinity School
Table of Contents
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Preface
- Approaches to the Question of God
The Question of Ways to the Question of God
Five Ways to the Question of God
The Way of the Facticity of Redemption
- The Classical Catholic Theology of God
Sortings
Origins
Elements
Ambiguities
- Varieties of Anti-Theism
Intratheistic Critiques
Resymbolizing
Demythologizing
Deconstructive Anti-Theism
Issues and Appraisals
- Meanings and Evidences
The Reality of God as a Problem for Faith
Atheism and the Problem of Meaning God
The Anselmic Principle
- The Redemptive Coming Forth of God as God
Human Desire and Eternal Horizon
The Dynamics of Agential Evil
The Dynamics of Agential Redemption
Eternal Horizon as Actual
Some Concluding Matters
PART TWO: A SYMBOLICS OF GOD
- The Attribute and Anti-Attribute Traditions
The Attribute Tradition
The Anti-Attribute Tradition
Is Divine Symbolics and Idolatry of God?
- A Path to a Symbolics of God
Discernments and the Bespeaking of God
Meaning and Appresentation
Meaning and the Bespecaking of God
Interhuman and Social Spheres and the Bespeaking God
- Ciphers and Qualifiers
Ciphers
Qualifiers
- Ciphers of Redemption
Human Agency: Ciphers of Founding
The Interhuman: The Cipher of Reconciling Love
The Sociopolitical Cipher of Justice
God as Spirit
- Ciphers of Creativity and Holiness
Creativity
The Holy
Unity, Trinity, and the Symbolics of God
PART THREE: THEOLOGY OF GOD AND WORLD
- Metaphysics and Its Critics
Metaphysics in Classical and Neoclassical Theologies of God
Metaphysics and the Theology of God
Charges and Rejoinders
- On the Way to a Paradigm
The Contributions of Anti-Theism
The Many Faces of Metaphysics
On Thinking God's Relation to the World
Elements of a Paradigm
Metaphysics and Hermeneutics: A Methodological Query
- Three-Dimensional World: Cosmos and Nature
Cosmos
Nature
Structural Features of the Sphere of Life
- Three-Dimensional World: History
Bears
Historical Passage
Ambiguity
- Manifested World
World-For-Us
The Being of the World
World Constituents and Root Metaphors
Entities, Relations, Events, and Environments
- World as Creation
Theology of World
The Genesis of World as Creation
Creation: Unpacking a Symbol
World Polarities: Implications of World as Creation
Aporias and Boundaries
- The Vent of Jesus as Christ
The Event of Jesus as Christ in Its Resolution: The Ecclesia
The Event of Jesus as Christ: The Precipitating Figure
- The Figure of Jesus: Universality, Pathos, and Empathy
The Universalization of the Faith of Israel
The Pathos of the As-Such
The Empathic Union
Smmary and Conclusion
- Divine Empathy: Preliminary Considerations
Some Guiding Principles
Retrieving Elements from the Sources
Divine Activity Minus "quot;Christian Cosmology"
- The Efficacy of the Divine Empathy
Entities in the Making
Efficacious Empathy
Some Reinterpretations
Index
PART ONE: THE COMING FORTH OF GOD AS GOD