The God Relationship: The Ethics for Inquiry About the Divine
- New York Cambridge University Press 2017
- 347p
includes index and biblioraphy
The god Relationship : Basic and Plans ........1 Modes of Inquiry ....3 Empowerment and ethics in Inquiry ............15 Caring and agape in Inquiry .......21 Trial for compassion ..........27 Curative relationships and knowledge ......33 Probing and defending ........40 Plans ..........47 2. The god relationship and faith ....56 Aspects of overwhelming ...57 From creation - enhancing to overwhelming ....62 From overwhelming to faith and agape.......68 Gethsemane, dereliction , and inquiry ..........................85 Sympathetic Faith ..........92 Fragility for faith .......105 3. The god Relationship and evidence .......116 Whose existence .....117 Argumentism about God .......120 A self-authenticating God ........129 Whither arguments................129 Intellectualist underpinnings and shortcomings.........145 Divine self-hiding and sacrifice ..........161 Self-sacrifice in evidence for god .....176 Whither hiddenness.....185 4. The god Relationship, wisdom, and meaning ....193 God`s wisdom and meaning ............193 Wisdom: Evaluative, practical, and Philosophical ..........195 God`s wisdom and revelation .....200 Participation and speculation ............215 Meaning , purpose, and will ............230 Experiencing God`s Will ............239 Faith and felt mening ..............244 Meaning in death ...250 5. The god Relationship, Koinonia, and Defense ............256 Virtues and volitions ........256 Redemptive koinonia .......265 Obstacles and responses ...........274 Some biblical Data on Witness ............284 Divine witness to filial agape ..........289 Abiding in Agape .............301 I - Thou defense of Faith in God .........308