Bodies Inhabiting the World: Scandinavian Creation Theology and the Question of Home

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Derek R. Nelson Niels Henrik Gregersen

Bodies Inhabiting the World

Scandinavian Creation Theology and the Question of Home

Derek R. Nelson, Niels Henrik Gregersen, Bengt Kristensson Uggla , Svein Aage Christoffersen

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Lexington Books
20 November 2023

Christianity; Christian life & practice; Theology; Religious social & pastoral thought & activity

Bodies Inhabiting the World: Scandinavian Creation Theology and the Question of Home offers a multidimensional investigation of how houses, bodies, communities and the whole universe may be conceived and refigured as places where we belong—where we are at home in God’s creation. In this way, revisiting the tradition of Scandinavian creation theology provides profound resources to make theological affirmations of God’s omnipresence in the human condition we all share. The emergence here of an exciting new theological program can be recognized—beyond the limitations of other contemporary agendas' cul-de-sacs, blind spots and diffidence. What it is to have a home is a universal question closely connected to what it means to be human and to live a good, flourishing, life. But the negative experiences of homelessness, broken homes, statelessness and alienation always lurk in the background of the universal quest to find one's home in the world. This book contains fourteen essays exploring the dynamics of the human experience of finding, losing and finding again a home.

Contributions by: Svein Aage Christoffersen, Mary Emily Briehl Duba
Edited by: Derek R. Nelson, Niels Henrik Gregersen, Bengt Kristensson Uggla
Imprint: Lexington Books
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 237mm, Width: 158mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 549g
ISBN: 9781666931433
ISBN 10: 1666931438
Pages: 244
Publication Date: 20 November 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments Introduction: Belonging, Comfort and Delight: An Invitation to Home and SCT, Derek R. Nelson Part I: Home and Creation: Place, Journey and Arrival Chapter 1: Home and Creation Dynamics, Bengt Kristensson Uggla Chapter 2: Living on Borrowed Ground: Inhabitation as Lived Creation Theology, Mary Emily Briehl Duba, Chapter 3: Coming Home to God: Procession and Return in Pseudo-Dionysius and Marguerite Porete, Ryan McAnnally-Linz Chapter 4: Pilgrim's Homecoming, Svein Aage Christoffersen, Part II: Homes, Bodies and Society Chapter 5: The Body as Home and Horizon, Allen G. Jorgenson Chapter 6: Who Does Not Want to Have a Family? Home and Family, Reality and Ideal, Elisabeth Gerle Chapter 7: Home Is Where Trust Is: Exilic Existence and Theological Trust Culture in Luther and Løgstrup, Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa Chapter 8: Expectations of a Second-Skin Dwelling: Some Theo-political Reflections on the Significance of Homes, Trygve Wyller Chapter 9: Ordinary Lives and the Home as a Safe Space, Else Marie Wiberg Pedersen Part III: Cosmos as Home Chapter 10: Deep Inhabitations: Home and Cosmos in Scandinavian Creation Theology, Niels Henrik Gregersen Chapter 11: At Home in the Universe? Jakob Wolf Chapter 12: At Home in the Cosmos, Ted Peters Chapter 14: Embodying Creation and Gospel: Thinking With and After Gustaf Wingren, Lois Malcom About the Contributors

Derek R. Nelson is professor of religion at Wabash College. Niels Henrik Gregersen is professor of systematic theology at the University of Copenhagen. Bengt Kristensson Uggla is professor of philosophy, culture, and management at Åbo Akademi University.

Reviews for Bodies Inhabiting the World: Scandinavian Creation Theology and the Question of Home

Scandinavian Creation theology is a dynamic and significant contribution to contemporary constructive theology. The name should not mislead you, though: The volume shows the international relevance its resources represents, and contains insights that can be employed in a profound manner by scholars in other parts of the world, as well. Thus, SCT it is part of a wider web of theological work that goes on in the present in order to enhance our understanding of the depths of human existence and experience -- Jan-Olav Henriksen, MF Norwegian School of Theology