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The Divine Ideas Tradition in Christian Mystical Theology

Autor Mark A. McIntosh
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 4 mar 2021
By the time of early modernity, a widely deployed tenet of Christian thought had begun to vanish. The divine ideas tradition, the teaching that all beings have an eternal existence as aspects of God's mind, had functioned across a wide range of central Christian doctrines, providing Christian thinkers and mystical teachers with a powerful theological capacity: to illuminate the Trinitarian ground of all creatures, and to renew the divine truth of all creatures through human contemplation. Already by the time of the Middle Platonists, Plato's forms had been reinterpreted as ideas in the mind of God. Yet that was only the beginning of the transformation of the divine ideas, for Christian belief in God as Trinity and in the incarnation of the Word imbued the divine ideas tradition with a remarkable conceptual agility. The divine ideas teaching allowed mystical theologians to conceive the hidden presence of God in all creatures, and the power of every creature's truth in God to consummate the full dynamic of every creature's calling. The Divine Ideas Tradition in Christian Mystical Theology brings to life the striking role of the divine ideas tradition in the teaching of its central exponents, and also suggests how the divine ideas might constructively inform Christian theology and spirituality today. Especially in an age of global crises, when the truth of the natural environment, of racial injustice, and of public health is denied and disputed for political ends, the divine ideas tradition affords contemporary thinkers a creative and contemplative vision that reveres the deep truth of all beings and seeks their mending and fulfilment.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199580811
ISBN-10: 0199580812
Pagini: 232
Dimensiuni: 140 x 220 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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McIntosh stimulates Reformed theologians to examine and appropriate the overlooked mystical elements in their own tradition.
The book would be successful as a basis for a graduate seminar, but undergraduates could also benefit from the way that the book does not become overly technical in laying out the notion, history, or significance of thinking about God's ideas.
McIntosh's erudition is impressive and his contribution to theology and philosophy significant.
For McIntosh, immersion in the theological tradition concerning the "divine ideas" was not merely an academic exercise, but a matter of burning actuality.
In The Divine Ideas, McIntosh marshals an array of Christian thinkers— from Origen and Augustine, through Maximus the Confessor and John Scotus Eriugena, to Aquinas and Bonaventure
McIntosh makes absorbing Christian theological arguments rooted in the so-called divine ideas tradition, and he makes a powerful bid for the relevance of this tradition.
This is a stellar essay on a neglected topic....McIntosh leaves behind a significant theological and pastoral legacy and this final book proves to be a fitting capstone to his life and work.

Notă biografică

Mark A. McIntosh is the inaugural holder of the endowed professorship of Christian Spirituality at Loyola University Chicago. He previously served as Van Mildert Professor of Divinity at Durham University and canon residentiary of Durham Cathedral. His research focuses on the intersection of the mystical and theological in Christianity. His publications include The Oxford Handbook of Mystical Theology (Oxford University Press, 2020) and Divine Teaching: An Introduction to Christian Theology (Wiley Blackwell, 2008).