Divine Enticement: Theological Seductions

by Karmen MacKendrick

Book Overview

Theology usually appears to us to be dogmatic, judgmental, condescending, maybe therapeutic, or perhaps downright fantastical--but seldom enticing. Divine Enticement takes as its starting point that the meanings of theological concepts are not so much logical, truth-valued propositions--affirmative or negative--as they are provocations and evocations. Thus it argues for the seductiveness of both theology and its subject--for, in fact, infinite...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823242900
• ISBN13: 9780823242900
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"