God Reinvented?: A Theological Search in Texts and TablesEverywhere in the western world the process of secularization leads to the decline of faith in God. The concept of secularization itself, however, has come under attack by critics who believe that it does not adequately account for processes which may be part of a certain renascence, as marginal and unrecognized as it may be, of belief in God. Whether these processes are actually taking place, and whether this renascence, if such it is, will bring about a transformation of that belief are questions still waiting to be answered. Are we witnessing the (re)creation of God images, or the (re)discovery of God? The tension between (re)creation and (re)discovery lies at the root of this book and its title, which has been framed very intentionally as a question: God Reinvented? |
Contents
God Reinvented in Texts and Tables? | 3 |
EMPIRICAL STUDIES IN THEOLOGY | 20 |
The Empirical Paradigm in Theology 29 | 29 |
QUALITATIVE STUDIES | 61 |
Peak Experiences | 63 |
Gods Immanent Transcendence in Crisis Situations | 81 |
Divine Intimacy and Retribution? | 109 |
Gods Strength in the Face of Death | 123 |
QUANTITATIVE STUDIES | 141 |
The Stubborn Monosyllable God | 143 |
After God? | 171 |
A False Dilemma? | 205 |
God Asymmetric and Polycentric | 233 |
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