God will be all in all: theology through the lens of incarnation

Intro

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Truly God and Truly Human-Two Natures in One Person: Perplexities and Possibilities

Perplexities

Possibilities

Biblical Explorations: Insights from Four Key Texts

Theological Understandings: Trinitarian Framing of Incarnation

Philosophical Insights: Process-Relational Orientation

Conclusion

2. How Does Incarnation Change the Way We Think about God?

God's Transcendent-Immanence

God and the World: Mutual Indwelling and Mutual Influence

Creator-Created-Creativity

God in All Things and All Things in God

The Intrinsic Value and Vital Interconnectedness of All Things

Conclusion

3. How Does Incarnation Change the Way We Think about What It Is to Be Human?-Part 1: Who Are We?

In the Image of God

At Home in the Cosmos

Human Beings: Embodied

Human Beings: Embedded

Conclusion

4. How Does Incarnation Change the Way We Think about What It Is to Be Human?-Part 2: What Are We Called to Do?

Created to Be Co-Creators

Created: At Home in the Cosmos

Co-Creators: In the Image of God

Incarnational Ethics

The Human Problematic Bodies Matter

Incarnational Ethics and Disability

Incarnational Ethics and Racism

Conclusion

5. How Does Incarnation Change the Way We Think about the Christ Event?

Challenges from Our Context concerning God's Saving Work

Recentering Jesus' Birth in the Incarnation

God's Saving Work: The Word Became Flesh

God's Saving Work: Theosis

Recentering Jesus' Life and Ministry in the Incarnation

God's Saving Work: Christ the Example

God's Saving Work: "The Spirit of the Lord Was upon Him"

Recentering Jesus' Death in the Incarnation

God's Saving Work: A Sacrificial Metaphor

God's Saving Work: A Juridical Metaphor

Reclaiming the Cross

Recentering Jesus' Resurrection in the Incarnation

"Deep Resurrection"

The Ambiguities around the Resurrection

The Centrality of the Resurrection

Resurrection of the Body

God's Saving Work: Setting Free

Conclusion

6. When We Say "God Is with Us," What Do We Mean by "Us"?

Only Us Christians?

Reconsidering Exclusivism from an Incarnational Perspective

Incarnational Ethics: Practical Implications for Interreligious Relations and Cooperation

Only Us Humans?

Reconsidering Anthropocentrism from an Incarnational Perspective

Corrections from Cosmic Christology

Contributions from Reformed Theology

Process-Relational Insights

Resisting the Objectification of Nature: Seeing the World Whole

Resisting the Objectification of Nature: Seeing the World as a Community of Subjects

Imagining an Alternative: God with All of Us, the Convivial Community of Creation

Only Us Earthlings?

What If There Are Others out There?

One Incarnation or Many?

What Do We Mean by "Incarnation"?

What Is the Purpose of Incarnation?

7. How Can We Say God Is with Us in the Face of So Much Suffering and Evil?