Description: Jurgen Moltmann and others contend that Christian
theology and the church face a dual crisis--one of relevance and
the other of identity. Despite making this pronouncement nearly
forty years ago, the church in the West continues to struggle with
this crisis. Several proposals have been espoused, from the way of
wisdom to the way of ecclesial praxis. Yet, little attention is
given in Protestant theological discourse to the role God's beauty
plays in bringing theology and ethics together. By neglecting God's
beauty for theological discourse, we risk diminishing Christian
worship, witness, and wisdom. God's Beauty-in-Act addresses these
issues, in part, by arguing that the redemptive-creative suffering
and glorious resurrection of Christ are the nexus of God's being,
beauty, and Christian living. God's beauty, understood as the
fittingness of the incarnate Son's actions in the Spirit to the
Father's will, radiates God's glory and draws perceivers into the
dramatic movements of God's triune life. These movements serve as
the patterns that shape the imagination, enabling participants to
perform their parts creatively and fittingly in God's drama of
redemption. In doing so, human beings flourish as they jettison
false identities and realities of their own making that are
incommensurate with God's purpose found in Christ by the Spirit.
Endorsements: "Garrett's book is an altarpiece with two panels and
a hinge, a fitting structure for a work that depicts the cross as
the enactment of God's beauty. . . . This study of Trinitarian
theology presents the Son as the expression of the Father's glory,
and the Spirit its impression. God's Beauty-in-Act describes how
Christ's cross transforms our imaginations, enabling the church to
participate in the dramatic movement that defines the beat of God's
own heart." --Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Research Professor of Systematic
Theology, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School "Stephen Garrett has
provided us with a deftly constructed and compellingly argued case
for the centrality of beauty for a faithful doctrine of God, and
indeed for the whole theological project." --Samuel Wells, Visiting
Professor of Christian Ethics, King's College, London "Stephen
Garrett presents a thoughtful Protestant appropriation of the work
of Balthasar, which stresses the supreme importance of imagination
in the contemplative reception and ethical imitation of the beauty
revealed in the cross of Christ. Of particular value is the deeply
scriptural and resolutely Trinitarian context of Garrett's
reflections. This work is rich in ecumenical potential and makes a
significant contribution to the task of shaping Christian ethics in
light of the beauty 'ever ancient, ever new.'" --Francis Caponi,
Associate Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, Villanova
University About the Contributor(s): Stephen M. Garrett, PhD, is an
Academic Fellow with the International Institute for Christian
Studies and Lecturer/Researcher of Public Theology and Philosophy
of Religion in the Social Communications Institute at Lithuania
University of Educational Sciences.
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