The Lord Who Listens

A Dogmatic Inquiry Into God as Hearer
x, 226 pp.
ISBN: 978-90-04-69306-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 26, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

Reihe: Studies in Systematic Theology

In The LORD Who Listens, Charles C. Helmer IV draws on Holy Scripture and the theology of Karl Barth to offer a theological intepretation of God's hearing. Prioritizing this neglected biblical theme, Helmer develops a theological grammar for speaking of God's hearing that maintains a strong creator-creature distinction and then proceeds to demonstrate the profound implications God's hearing has for the doctrines of anthropology, Christology and, thus, for understandings of the gospel.

In contrast to passibilist-liberationist strategies, God's hearing is argued to furnish existentially and theologically superior resources for those who cry out to be heard by God.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Helmer IV, Charles C

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Erkenntnistheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part 1: An Interpretation of God’s Hearing

1 Scripture: An Auscultation of Hearing

1.1 Abraham and the Covenant: An Interpretive Framework

1.2 Hearing in the Psalms

1.3 New Testament Continuities and Transformations

1.4 Conclusion

2 Karl Barth and the Promise of God’s Hearing

2.1 Creation and Covenant: The Place of God’s Hearing

2.2 The Priority of Divine Agency in Human Speaking and Divine Hearing

2.3 Confidence in the God Who Hears

2.4 Hearing and God’s Constancy

2.5 Conclusion

Part 2: A Constructive Proposal for God’s Hearing

3 Creation: A Theological Grammar

3.1 God’s Radical Ontological Alterity and Infinite Proximity

3.2 God as Hearer in Being and Act

3.3 God’s Hearing—an Utterly Gratuitous and Perfect Gift of Love

3.4 Conclusion

4 Anthropology: Being Heard into Hearing Beings

4.1 Human Social Formation

4.2 Formed by the Hearing of Others

4.3 Malformed by Silence

4.4 God’s Hearing and Human Becoming

4.5 Conclusion

5 Christology: The Triumph of the Always-Heard Word

5.1 Incarnation

5.2 Death

5.3 Resurrection

5.4 Ascension

5.5 Conclusion

Conclusion: “O That I Had One to Hear Me!”

Bibliography

Index of Subjects

Über Autor(innen)

Charles C. Helmer IV, Ph.D. (2021), Durham University, is a campus minister at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio.