On The Mystery
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Demonstrates how theology engages our most important questions • A student-friendly introduction with a distinctly process-theology orientation.
Prologue ixOpen-Ended Interactivity xiiSeven Signs xiiiCome, My Way: Theology as Process 1Boarding Call 1The Absolute and the Dissolute 2Is God the Problem? 5Christian Right, Planetary Wrong 6Honest to God 7Trails and Trials 9Theology as Truth-Process 10Touch of Truth 11Calling God 14Speaking of the Mystery 17Attractive Propositions 20Process Theology 21Such a Way 24Pilate's Shrug: Truth as Process 27Torturous Truth 28Johannine Testimonies 30Truth Wells 31Way or Wall? 33Christian Shibboleths 35Johannine Vines 35Truth in Relation: The Risk of Trust 36"Hereticks in the Truth" 38Truth or Terror 40In Flesh and in Truth 42Be This Fish: Creation in Process 45Fishy Grace 45Ex Nihilo or Nihilism? 47A Magnificent Mess 48Lost Chaos of Creation 50Panentheism 52Over Our Heads 53A Luminous Darkness 54Of Wombs and Warriors 56Genesis and Genetics 59Self-Organizing Creation 61Male, Female, and Talkative 63Kabash the Earth? 65Seascapes of Grace 66After Omnipotence: Power as Process 69Power Flashes 69The Logic of Omnipotence 70Crashing Waves 72Job's Leviathanic Epiphany 74Calvin's Decretum Horribile 76Sin and Power 79Blameworthy or Responsible? 81Thorny Confession 83Double Crossed 85God of Letting Be 87Risk the Adventure: Passion in Process 91In Control or in Love? 94Enemy Love: Not for Wimps 95Sin and Love 97God in Process: Lure and Response 98Arise, My Love 101"Invisible Attractions": Law and Love 104Between Eros and Agape 107Sticky Justice: Com/Passion in Process 111Liberating Com/Passion 111Just Love 113Network of Mutuality 115Agapic Justice 117Community of Compound Passions 118Love, Politics, Enemies 121August Wisdom 122Love Rhythm 124Dispassion or Compassion? 125Moved Mover 127Sticky Gift 129Jesus the Parable: Christ as Process 133Missing Jesus 134Creedal Omission 135Revealing or Concealing? 137In Joy: Discerning Priorities 139Overpaid Idlers: Economics of the Basileia 140Heaven, Hell, and Here 143Salvation in Process 146Fermenting Possibility 148The Lure of a Higher Christology 151Christ in Process 152Becoming Parables 154Open Ending: Spirit in Process 159Insoluble Theology 159Hot Tongues 161WMD: Word of Mass Destruction 164Hope as Counter-Apocalypse 166Double-Edged S/Word 168Cases of Spirit 170Absolution, Dissolution, Resolution 173Acknowledgments 177Teaching Resources 179Notes 187Index 203
