Significant advances in science bring new understandings of the human as a unity of mind, body, and world and calls into question the deep-seated dualistic presuppositions of modern theology. Oliver Davies argues that the changing framework allows a return to the defining question of the Easter Church: "Where is Jesus Christ?" This is a question which can bring about a fundamental reorientation of theology, since it gives space for the theological reception of the disruptive presence of the living Christ as the present material as well as formal object of theology in the world. At the centre of this study therefore is a new theology of the doctrine of the exaltation of Christ, based upon St. Paul's encounter with the exalted or commissioning Christ on the road to Damascus. This places calling and commissioning at the center of systematic theology. It provides the ground for a new understanding of theology as transcending the Academy-Church division as well as the divide between systematic and practical theology. It points also to a new critical theological method of engagement and collaboration. This book begins to explore new forms of world-centred theological rationality in the contexts not only of scripture, doctrine, anthropology, ecclesiology, and faith, but also of Christian politics and philosophy. It is a work of contemporary and global Christological promise in Fundamental Theology, and is addressed to all those who are concerned, from whichever denomination, with the continuing vitality of Christianity in a changing world.

Theology of Transformation: Faith, Freedom, and the Christian Act

Davies, Oliver

Religion & Spirituality

Oxford University Press

The Mystical Tradition of Northern Europe, Oliver Davies. A one-volume introduction and overview of the great mystical writers of the late medieval period.

God Within. The Mystical Tradition of Northern Europe

Darton,Longman & Todd Ltd.

An anthology of Celtic material, featuring examples from the earliest times to the present day. Many of the pieces are presented in new translations and some appear in English for the first time. Each is set in its own time and context by the editors.

Celtic Spirituality An Anthology - Spck

Christian Books & Bibles

Worship & Devotion

ABINGDON PRESS *

Meister Eckhart, the fourteenth-century German mystic and theologian, is one of the most enigmatic and controversial figures in the history of the Church, and few have played so diverse and fertile a role in the cultural imagination. He has been seen as both heretic and 'the man from whom God nothing hid' Christian mystic and Buddhist sage; Catholic and Protestant; feminist and ecologist; he is both medieval schoolman and inspirer of contemporary philosophers such as Heidegger, Bloch and Derrida. Oliver Davies's masterly evaluation of Eckhart is based on an unrivalled knowledge of the original texts, their historical and theological context, and their place in the Christian mystical tradition. The portrait of St Dominic on the cover (of the book) illustrates one of Davies's main themes: Eckhart's position in the mainstream Dominican tradition of grounding theology in spiritual experience. Both a stimulating scholarly study and an ideal introduction for the non-specialist, Meister Eckhart: Mystical Theologian explores the enduring fascination of Meister Eckhart, 'a mystic for our age'

Meister Eckhart: Mystical Theologian

Theology

SPCK Publishing

The wide-scale rejection of metaphysics today has become the test of the postmodern. In this volume, Oliver Davies argues for a renewal of metaphysics, as the language of createdness, based not in a return to outmoded concepts of essence, but in a dynamic new understanding of ontology as narrataive and performance. His repairing of the western metaphysical tradition is grounded both in the divine self-naming in Exodus which, for the rabbis, identified God's presence in the world with God's compassionate acts, and in the compassionate resistance of Etty Hillesum and Edith Stein to the violence of the Holocaust. Building upon a new metaphysics of compassion which is attentive to the deepest histories of the contemporary world, Davies offers a renewed systematic theology of divine speech and relation, focused in Jesus Christ who, as the triadic "Word" of God, speaks creatively at the heart of human culture and action, and, as the redeeming "Compassion" of God, regenerates the world. Oliver Davies is Reader in Theology at the University of Wales, Lampeter. His previous publications have been mainly in the area of medieval mysticism, especially Meister Eckhart, and Celtic Christianity.

Theology of Compassion

Hymns Ancient & Modern Ltd

The Creativity of God: World, Eucharist, Reason (Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine, Series Number 12)

Theological tradition has lost its sense of the created nature of the world, leading to a complete break between the way we know God and the world. The Johannine tradition of creation through the Word and a Eucharistic semiotic of Christ as the embodied creative speech of God serve to reintegrate Christian cosmology. This book sets out "a new understanding" of reality, as encountered in and through Jesus Christ, and explores new modes of ecclesial reasoning.

Cambridge University Press

This book is the fruit of a close collaboration between three leading scholars with a background in systematics, philosophical theology and ethics. It sets out a new account of how incarnation is mediated in the world of space and time, leading to a new orientation of theology within the world. The doctrinal ("from above") and philosophical ("from below") sections lead to a new exposition of Christian life in confrontation with deepseated problems of ethics and justice. The three pieces closely interweave with each other in the elaboration of a new kind of practical, doctrinal theology of full philosophical integrity.

Transformation Theology: Church in the World

Janz, Paul D.

Sedmak, Clemens

Bloomsbury T&T Clark

T&T Clark

This first full-length theological study of sources from early medieval Wales traces common Celtic features in early Welsh religious literature. The author explores the origins of the earliest Welsh tradition in the fusion of Celtic primal religion with primitive Christianity, and traces some considerable Irish influence. These specific Celtic spiritual emphases are examined in the religious poetry of the Black Book of Carmarthen, the Book of Taliesin and the Poets of the Princes, and in prose texts such as The Food of the Soul and the Life of Beuno. Many of these Welsh texts appear here in English translation for the first time.

Celtic Christianity in Early Medieval Wales: The Origins of the Welsh Spiritual Tradition

Literature & Fiction

University of Wales Press

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Theology of Transformation: Faith, Freedom, and the Christian Act

God Within. The Mystical Tradition of Northern Europe

Celtic Spirituality An Anthology - Spck

Meister Eckhart: Mystical Theologian

Theology of Compassion

The Creativity of God: World, Eucharist, Reason (Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine, Series Number 12)

The Creativity of God: World, Eucharist, Reason (Cambridge Studies in Christian Doctrine, Series Number 12)

Transformation Theology: Church in the World

Transformation Theology: Church in the World

Celtic Christianity in Early Medieval Wales: The Origins of the Welsh Spiritual Tradition