Theological Journal – June 2 Gunton Tuesday: The One, the Three, and the Many
Ch.1 From Heraclitus to Havel. The problem of the one and the many in modern life and thought 1 The idea of modernity There is both continuity and diversity between ancients and moderns (contra the claims of some postmoderns that humanity today is something new and different than other eras. Task: “ I shall look at the world which we all share, believer and unbeliever alike, through a focus provided by the doctrine of the God made known in Christ and the Spirit, and in a process of identification and elucidation shall hope to illumine where we stand now, so laying the basis for an approach to a Christian theology appropriate to the time.” -In other words, Gunton proposes to use a trinitarian view of God to forge a contextually relevant view of today’s world. the complexity of the modern world is obscured by the ideology of modernity. For us to truly see our world is there...