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Murray, Stephen Butler.

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Reclaiming divine wrath: A apologetics for an aspect of God neglected by contemporary theology and preaching.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Reclaiming divine wrath: A apologetics for an aspect of God neglected by contemporary theology and preaching./
Author:	Murray, Stephen Butler.
Description:	325 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-02, Section: A, page: 0573.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-02A.
Subject:	Theology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3124311
ISBN:	0496716190

Reclaiming divine wrath: A apologetics for an aspect of God neglected by contemporary theology and preaching.
Murray, Stephen Butler.

Reclaiming divine wrath: A apologetics for an aspect of God neglected by contemporary theology and preaching. - 325 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-02, Section: A, page: 0573.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Union Theological Seminary, 2004.

This dissertation argues that in order to bear a faithful witness to the Christian traditions, the idea of divine wrath must be recovered for contemporary theology and preaching by reclaiming a theological paradigm of divine wrath that approaches God's love and God's wrath as intrinsically enjoined in a dynamic tension. At the present time, "mainline" Protestants tend to avoid the topic of divine wrath, both within academic circles, as well as from the pulpits of our churches. However, the wrath of God is an aspect of God that obviously appears in the Old and New Testaments, and has received extensive treatment among Christian theologians and preachers throughout the last two millennia. While appreciating the social and religious rationales that have led mainline Protestants either to neglect or to ignore divine wrath as incompatible with the predominant vision of a loving God, I maintain that such omissions lead to dangerous assumptions about God and human relationships with God. If we reject the wrath of God due to a commitment to our own vision of the world, we merely construct a deity of our own fashioning, pretending that God lives in our world, rather than we who live in God's world. Further, if we neglect this aspect of God, then we become accountable for the irresponsible applications of divine wrath that may and do occur in certain theology and preaching. When we do not discipline ourselves in the study and proclamation of theology, the symbolism, language, and rhetoric concerning God can be used in appallingly banal, coarse, violent, and sacrilegious ways. Thus, in order that we not suffer the consequences of rejecting or neglecting divine wrath as part of the divine life, it is important that the Christian witness always holds divine wrath in a dynamic tension with God's love. By examining Christian formulations of divine wrath in the past, it is my contention that we can find valuable models for this aspect of God for our current theology and preaching as well.

ISBN: 0496716190Subjects--Topical Terms:

516533
Theology.

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