OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS DRAMA OF THE DIVINE ECONOMY 2012 RETAIL EBOOK-kE

TITLE: DRAMA OF THE DIVINE ECONOMY: CREATOR AND CREATION IN
EARLY CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY AND PIETY (OXFORD EARLY
CHRISTIAN STUDIES)
PUBLISHER: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PR LANGUAGE: ENGLISH
LINK: http://is.gd/DSHFAK RELEASE TYPE: RETAIL
FORMAT: PDF RELEASE DATE: 2015.01.25
ISBN: 9780199660414 STORE DATE: 2012
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AUTHOR: PAUL M. BLOWERS

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The theology of creation interconnected with virtually every
aspect of early Christian thought, from Trinitarian doctrine to
salvation to ethics. Paul M. Blowers provides an advanced
introduction to the multiplex relation between Creator and
creation as an object both of theological construction and
religious devotion in the early church. While revisiting the
polemical dimension of Christian responses to Greco-Roman
philosophical cosmology and heterodox Gnostic and Marcionite
traditions on the origin, constitution, and destiny of the
cosmos, Blowers focuses more substantially on the positive role
of patristic theological interpretation of Genesis and other
biblical creation texts in eliciting Christian perspectives on
the multifaceted relation between Creator and creation. Greek
Syriac, and Latin patristic commentators, Blowers argues, were
ultimately motivated less by purely cosmological concerns than by
the urge to depict creation as the enduring creative and
redemptive strategy of the Trinity. The 'drama of the divine
economy', which Blowers discerns in patristic theology and piety
unfolded how the Creator invested the 'end' of the world already
in its beginning, and thereupon worked through the concrete
actions of Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit to realize a new
creation