Another Kind of Normal: Ethical Life II [Hardcover]

Every age needs to examine and propose its ways of living ethically. This volume constructs a mode of such living according to the Christian tradition, based upon an interpretation of Christ's coming and the relationship of that incarnation to God as the Creator of all things.Every age needs to examine and propose its ways of living ethically.Another Kind of Normal: Ethical Life IIconstructs a mode of such living according to the Christian tradition, based upon an interpretation of Christ's coming and the relationship of that incarnation to God as the Creator of all things.In the second of four volumes, Graham Ward explores an Augustinian vision of consonance between divine rhythm and the rhythmic orders of creation. On the basis of what Augustine calls the 'interval', it proposes Christ is encountered as riddle, scandal, and paradox. It provides an account of creation as a Trinitarian event that calls for a rethinking of what are the key teachings in Christianity with respect to an understanding of creation as a divine benediction and a theatre for transformation and healing. Ward argues through Scriptural exegesis, for the omnidirectionality of time as graced, rejecting a conception of linear temporality and theologies indebted to that conception. Throughout, participation in God, through our hiddenness in Christ develops an account of the complex relationship between divine and human creativity, appealing to music, painting, poetry, drama, film, architecture, and novels.Introit: ConsonanceChristology1. The Haunting of Christ: Christology and Affect2. Time, Grace, and Mythic Sensibility3. Christ as Riddle4. Christ as Scandal5. Christ as Paradox: 'Nature' in Inverted CommasCreation6. Creation as Triune Joy7. Complating Nothing8. Ecce Homo: Who We Are9. Sighs for Eden10. Exile and AlienationExtroit: Complex EcologiesGraham Ward,Regius Professor of Divinity, University of Oxford, UKGraham Ward is the Regius Professol³2