The Creativity of God World, Eucharist, Reason [Paperback]

A reintegrated Christian cosmology, linking God and the world through the creative Word in Christ.Theological tradition has lost the sense of the createdness of the world, leading to a complete disjunction between the way we know God and knowing the world. Both the Johannine tradition of creation through the Word and a Eucharistic semiotic of Christ as the embodied creative speech of God serve the project of a repairal of Christian cosmology. This book sets out a new understanding of the real therefore, as encountered in and through Jesus Christ, and explores the new modes of ecclesial reasoning and embodiment which flow from it.Theological tradition has lost the sense of the createdness of the world, leading to a complete disjunction between the way we know God and knowing the world. Both the Johannine tradition of creation through the Word and a Eucharistic semiotic of Christ as the embodied creative speech of God serve the project of a repairal of Christian cosmology. This book sets out a new understanding of the real therefore, as encountered in and through Jesus Christ, and explores the new modes of ecclesial reasoning and embodiment which flow from it.Theological tradition has lost its sense of the created nature of the world, leading to a complete break between the way we know God and the world. The Johannine tradition of creation through the Word and a Eucharistic semiotic of Christ as the embodied creative speech of God serve to reintegrate Christian cosmology. This book sets out a new understanding of reality, as encountered in and through Jesus Christ, and explores new modes of ecclesial reasoning.INTRODUCTION: THE cOSMOLOGICAL IMPERATIVE; Part I. AN ARCHAEOLOGY oF CREATEDNESS: 1. The architecture of createdness; 2. The metaphysics of createdness; 3. Cosmological fragments; Part II. Scriptural Cosmology: 4. Speech revealed; 5. Spirit and letter; 6. Voice and sacrifice; Part III. Eucharistic Wisdom: 7. The abundant real; 8. Wisdom of the flesh; 9. Eucharls*