God Being Nothing ：Toward a Theogony ( Religion and Postmodernism )

Publication subTitle ：Toward a Theogony

Publication series ：Religion and Postmodernism

Author： Ray L. Hart

Publisher： University of Chicago Press‎

Publication year： 2016

E-ISBN: 9780226359762

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780226359625

P-ISBN(Hardback): 9780226359625

Subject： B921 自然神学、宗教神学

Keyword： God., Philosophical theology., Postmodern theology.

Language： ENG

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In this long-awaited work, Ray L. Hart offers a radical speculative theology that profoundly challenges classical understandings of the divine. God Being Nothing contests the conclusions of numerous orthodoxies through a probing question: How can thinking of God reach closure when the subjects of creation are themselves unfinished, when God’s self-revelation in history is ongoing, when the active manifestation of God is still occurring?

Drawing on a lifetime of reading in philosophy and religious thought, Hart unfolds a vision of God perpetually in process: an unfinished God being self-created from nothingness. Breaking away from the traditional focus on divine persons, Hart reimagines the Trinity in terms of theogony, cosmogony, and anthropogony in order to reveal an ever-emerging Godhead who encompasses all of temporal creation and, within it, human existence. The book’s ultimate implication is that Being and Nonbeing mutually participate in an ongoing process of divine coming-to-birth and dying that implicates all things, existent and nonexistent, temporal and eternal. God’s continual generation from nothing manifests the full actualization of freedom: the freedom to create ex nihilo.