Christian wisdom : desiring God and learning in love

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Series-title......Page 4
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Dedication......Page 9
Contents......Page 11
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Introduction: theology as wisdom......Page 17
1 Wisdom cries......Page 30
Jesus, child of wisdom......Page 31
Cries and discernment......Page 34
Hidden from the wise, revealed to infants......Page 36
Something greater than Solomon......Page 42
Crying out in teaching, prophecy and narrative testimony: Jesus goes to Jerusalem......Page 43
From Last Supper to death: wisdom and history......Page 47
Open tomb, open scriptures, open eyes, open minds......Page 51
Stephen: \'full of the Spirit and of wisdom’......Page 57
A wisdom hermeneutic of cries......Page 59
Indicative: affirming and affirmed......Page 61
Imperative: obedience in the Kingdom of God......Page 62
Interrogative: questioning and questioned......Page 63
Subjunctive: possibilities and surprises......Page 64
Optative: desiring and desired......Page 65
Theology, the moods of faith, and wisdom......Page 66
2 A wisdom interpretation of scripture......Page 68
The leading of the Spirit and the Prologue of John......Page 69
God, creation, history, OT/NT, community......Page 75
Hermeneutic of the cross......Page 78
Hermeneutic of the resurrection......Page 79
Hermeneutic of Pentecost......Page 81
Rereading in the Spirit......Page 82
Scholarship and hermeneutics as resources for rereading scripture......Page 85
Example: 2 Corinthians......Page 87
Example: Ricoeur and LaCocque......Page 88
Regimes of reading since the Middle Ages......Page 90
What about theology?......Page 91
Wisdom and doctrine: a theological account of scripture......Page 92
Nine theses and ten maxims for Christian wisdom interpretation......Page 95
3 Job!......Page 106
Wisdom after trauma......Page 107
From Prologue to Epilogue: embodied wisdom, fearing God for nothing, and divine experimentation......Page 112
Job as embodied wisdom......Page 113
Does Job fear God for nothing?......Page 115
Theology in the subjunctive: a divine experiment......Page 118
The trauma of affliction......Page 120
Poetry against despair......Page 123
God!......Page 129
The sense of the ending: chapter 42......Page 131
Conclusion......Page 136
4 Job and post-Holocaust wisdom......Page 137
Job and friends......Page 138
Job, friends and God......Page 144
A searching wisdom......Page 149
The Gossamer Wall’s wisdom of remembering and repair......Page 154
Judaism after the Holocaust: one response......Page 160
Christianity after the Holocaust: what sort of wisdom?......Page 165
5 Jesus, the Spirit and desire: wisdom christology......Page 169
Jesus’ wisdom of desire according to Luke......Page 171
Desired and tested......Page 173
Transforming desire......Page 175
The drama of desire in action and passion......Page 176
A Lucan lens: the Wisdom of Solomon......Page 181
Job and Jesus......Page 184
One who cries out......Page 186
God-centred desire......Page 187
Wisdom after multiple overwhelmings......Page 188
Corinthians and wisdom christology......Page 192
Desire transformed in love......Page 193
The wisdom of this age and the wisdom of God......Page 195
Becoming mature......Page 199
Living wisdom christology......Page 203
Conclusion: maxims of wisdom christology......Page 206
6 Learning to live in the Spirit: tradition and worship......Page 208
A wisdom interpretation of Christian tradition......Page 210
The Holy Spirit, tradition and innovation......Page 213
Job and tradition......Page 214
Jesus and tradition......Page 215
Rereading scripture, rereading tradition......Page 219
Wisdom in worship: discerning who God is......Page 223
God as Trinity: scriptural, classical, contemporary......Page 226
God and being; Hebraic and Hellenic; lectio and quaestio; worship and philosophy: Paul Ricoeur on Exodus 3:14......Page 230
Innovation, incarnation and the intimate otherness of God: Rowan Williams on Arius and Athanasius......Page 234
God the Holy Spirit: Sarah Coakley on Romans 8, prayer, desire and incorporative or contemplative Trinitarianism......Page 238
Conclusion......Page 240
Hallowing the name: loving God for God’s sake......Page 241
From Abraham and Isaac to Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego......Page 242
From Jesus to the Gulag......Page 249
Perfecting perfection: the God of blessing who loves in wisdom......Page 252
Perfecting perfection......Page 253
The God of blessing who loves in wisdom......Page 255
God’s wisdom......Page 261
The church as a school of desire and wisdom......Page 268
Marks of Christian desire and wisdom in the church......Page 270
The church is a school of desire for unity......Page 271
The church is a school of desire for holiness......Page 275
The church is a school of desire for catholicity......Page 277
The church is a school of desire for apostolicity......Page 278
Christian theology as wisdom......Page 280
Core identities in conversation......Page 289
Scriptural reasoning: an introductory description......Page 291
An Abrahamic collegiality: not consensus but friendship......Page 294
House......Page 298
Campus......Page 304
Tent......Page 307
Coping with superabundant meaning......Page 309
Plain sense with midrash......Page 311
Theory......Page 312
Analogous wisdoms......Page 315
Scriptural reasoning in the public sphere......Page 317
Conclusion......Page 318
9 An interdisciplinary wisdom: knowledge, formation and collegiality in the negotiable university......Page 320
Surprising institutions......Page 322
Medieval origins......Page 323
The University of Berlin (the Humboldt University)......Page 325
The University of Cambridge......Page 330
Uniting teaching and research......Page 332
All-round educational formation......Page 335
Collegiality......Page 339
Polity and control......Page 342
Contributions to society......Page 346
Interdisciplinarity......Page 349
A vision of the twenty-first-century university and its realisation......Page 352
A twenty-first-century trauma?......Page 353
The prime condition for realisation – a seventh challenge......Page 354
Where might this wisdom be found?......Page 357
A developing settlement: theology and religious studies in Cambridge......Page 361
A Christian contribution to the life and renewal of the university......Page 363
10 An interpersonal wisdom: L’Arche, learning disability and the Gospel of John......Page 366
A wisdom-seeking community faces a major transition......Page 368
The \'Identity and Mission’ process 2002–2005......Page 370
What sort of wisdom?......Page 372
The cries of Raphael, Philippe and Innocente......Page 373
Reading scripture with these saints......Page 375
Job, Jesus, Paul and L’Arche......Page 378
Opening up the protective \'packages’ of individuals, church and world......Page 381
In the image of this God......Page 385
School of desire and wisdom, sign to a religious and secular world......Page 387
Drawn into the Mystery of Jesus through the Gospel of John......Page 388
John’s wisdom for transition to the next generation......Page 389
Vanier’s wisdom interpretation......Page 392
The summit of love: contemplative interpretation......Page 394
Conclusion: love’s wisdom......Page 396
Index of citations......Page 408
Subject Index......Page 415