T. F. Torrance's Reconstruction of Natural Theology
Christ and Cognition
Seiten
2019
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-0051-6 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-7936-0051-6 (ISBN)
This book elucidates T. F. Torrance’s reconstruction of natural theology as it appears within its intellectual context and broader Christological method. Irving argues that Torrance’s work on natural theology is an important affirmation of the priority of grace in theological method and knowledge alongside the integrity of human agency.
T. F. Torrance’s proposal for natural theology constitutes one of the most creative and provocative elements in his work. By re-envisioning natural theology as the cognitive structure of theology determined by God’s self-revelation in Jesus Christ (and not as the task of philosophically reflecting on the nature or existence of God aside from religious presuppositions), Torrance moves through and beyond Barth’s resistance to natural theology. This book establishes Torrance’s unique reconstruction of natural theology within its proper intellectual context, providing a fresh analysis of this important methodological innovation as it emerges from Torrance’s realist epistemology. As Irving demonstrates, in Torrance’s distinctive conception of science, he operated with an approach to cognition that functions via a realist synthesis of experience and understanding, and in Torrance’s theological science, this synthesis of experience and understanding is the synthesis of revealed theology and natural theology. The author argues that this reconstruction of natural theology expresses a dramatic vision for human agency within theological cognition, adding the necessity of the human knowing subject to the priority of the divine revealer. Finally, this book marries Torrance’s accomplishments in reconstructing natural theology to his Christocentric theological method, in which God is both revealed and known in the person of Jesus Christ, fully God and fully human.
T. F. Torrance’s proposal for natural theology constitutes one of the most creative and provocative elements in his work. By re-envisioning natural theology as the cognitive structure of theology determined by God’s self-revelation in Jesus Christ (and not as the task of philosophically reflecting on the nature or existence of God aside from religious presuppositions), Torrance moves through and beyond Barth’s resistance to natural theology. This book establishes Torrance’s unique reconstruction of natural theology within its proper intellectual context, providing a fresh analysis of this important methodological innovation as it emerges from Torrance’s realist epistemology. As Irving demonstrates, in Torrance’s distinctive conception of science, he operated with an approach to cognition that functions via a realist synthesis of experience and understanding, and in Torrance’s theological science, this synthesis of experience and understanding is the synthesis of revealed theology and natural theology. The author argues that this reconstruction of natural theology expresses a dramatic vision for human agency within theological cognition, adding the necessity of the human knowing subject to the priority of the divine revealer. Finally, this book marries Torrance’s accomplishments in reconstructing natural theology to his Christocentric theological method, in which God is both revealed and known in the person of Jesus Christ, fully God and fully human.
Alexander J. D. Irving is visiting lecturer at the London School of Theology and serving a curacy at St Stephen’s Church in Norwich.
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part One: The Synthesis of Discursive Reason and Experience
Chapter One: Reality
Chapter Two: Objectivity
Chapter Three: Logic
Part Two: Natural Theology
Chapter Four: The Rejection of Autonomous Natural Theology
Chapter Five: The Reconstruction of Natural Theology
Chapter Six: Natural Theology and Theological Science
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.05.2021 |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 1685 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 558 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik | |
| Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-7936-0051-1 / 1793600511 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-7936-0051-6 / 9781793600516 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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