A Theology of the Presence and Absence of God by Anthony J. Godzieba

Author:Anthony J. Godzieba
Language: eng
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Publisher: Liturgical Press
Published: 2018-04-29T16:00:00+00:00

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1. Because of these ambiguities, the term “philosophical theology” has been suggested as a more precise substitute, since it emphasizes both the rational as well as the strongly theological character of this kind of reflection (e.g., Max Seckler, “Theologie als Glaubenswissenschaft,” in Handbuch der Fundamentaltheologie 4: Traktat Theologische Erkenntnislehre, ed. Walter Kern, Hermann J. Pottmeyer, and Max Seckler [Freiburg/Br.: Herder, 1988], 185). I prefer “natural theology” since it is more often used in English-language contexts. However, I understand the term as interchangeable with “philosophical theology” precisely for the reasons that Seckler notes.

2. For Barth, see e.g. Anselm: Fides Quaerens Intellectum, trans. Ian Robertson (Richmond: John Knox Press, 1960 [German orig., 1931]); idem, Church Dogmatics, volume I, part 1: The Doctrine of the Word of God, trans. G. W. Bromiley et al. (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1957), x: “I regard the analogia entis [analogy of being] as the invention of Antichrist. . . .” For postliberal theology, see George A. Lindbeck, The Nature of Doctrine: Religion and Theology in a Postliberal Age (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1984). For radical orthodoxy, see John Milbank, Catherine Pickstock, and Graham Ward, “Introduction: Suspending the Material: The Turn of Radical Orthodoxy,” in Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology, ed. John Milbank, Catherine Pickstock, and Graham Ward (London/New York: Routledge, 1999), 1–20.

3. Cf. Richard Kearney, “Ethics and the Postmodern Imagination,” Thought 62 (1987): 39–58; idem, The Wake of Imagination: Toward a Postmodern Culture (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1988), 1–33.

4. Walter Kasper, The God of Jesus Christ [hereafter GJC], new ed., trans. [Matthew J. O’Connell and] Dinah Livingstone (London/New York: Continuum, 2012), 65.

5. Ibid., 64.

6. The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd ed., ed. F. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), 1132 (s.v., “Natural Theology”).

7. The HarperCollins Encyclopedia of Catholicism, ed. Richard P. McBrien (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1995), 908 (s.v., “natural theology”).

8. E.g., Irenaeus of Lyons’ arguments in Adversus Haereses. See Against the Heresies, Book I, trans. Dominic J. Unger, rev. John J. Dillon, Ancient Christian Writers, no. 55 (New York/Mahwah: Paulist Press, 1992).

9. E.g., Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae Ia, q. 2, a. 2, ad 1: “For faith presupposes natural knowledge, just as grace does nature and all perfections that which they perfect” (Summa theologiae, vol. 2 [1a. 2–11]: Existence and Nature of God, trans. Timothy McDermott [1964; repr., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006], 11.)

All further references to the Summa theologiae are taken from the Blackfriars edition, trans. Thomas Gilby et al., 61 vols. (1964–76; repr., Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006). The short form of reference in parentheses in the text follows this format: ST and the part, question, article, ad [= response] (vol. no. of the Blackfriars edition: page[s]).

10. Dogmatic Constitution on the Catholic Faith, “Dei Filius,” ch. 4, in Norman P. Tanner, ed., Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils, 2 vols. (London: Sheed and Ward/Washington: Georgetown University Press, 1990; hereafter DEC), 2:808 (Latin orig. and Eng. trans. on facing pages); Enchiridion symbolorum definitionum ed declarationum de rebus fidei et morum/Compendium of Creeds, Definitions, and Declarations on Matters of Faith and Morals, ed .

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