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    The Impassioned Life argues that theology's task today is to rethink the nature of the emotions and their relation to human reason. Such rethinking is necessary because the Christian tradition feels ambivalently about the emotions. Armed with a commitment to body-soul dualism, many writers have equated the image of God with rationality and wondered whether emotion is an essential feature of human nature; however, the tradition has also affirmed the value of emotions such as love and compassion a…Read more
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    Participating in God: Creation and Trinity
    Heythrop Journal 49 (2). 2008.
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    The Trinity in German Thought
    Cambridge University Press. 2000.
    This book describes the three ideas that govern modern German Trinitarian thought: the ideas of reflective selfhood, of revelation, and of history. ’Reflective selfhood’ designates the attempt at finding an analogy between the Trinity and the structure of the human self. Such attempts, following the lead of Augustine, typically see the structure of self-consciousness as an especially apt analogy of the Trinity. ’Revelation’ points to two questions: what is the Word of God? and can the idea of th…Read more
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    The World’s Participation in God’s Trinitarian Life
    Process Studies 37 (1): 145-165. 2008.
    Like process theism, Christian theology affirms the immanence of God in the world and of the world in God. Unlike process theism, it also affirms the ontological priority of God over the world. As a result, Christian theologians will object to describing God’s relation to the world by analogy with the mind’s relation to the body or in terms of whole-part relations. In Christian history, the God-world relation has been more often described in terms of “participation.” The world is said to partici…Read more