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Gabriel
Vahanian,
Anonymous God
Philosophical
and Cultural Studies in Religion
First
published in France as Dieu Anonyme to tremendous critical
acclaim throughout Europe, Anonymous God is a compelling
interpretation of the biblical tradition that allows it to speak in
a radically new manner to contemporary human beings, in a language
that is hopeful without being idealistic. It has been translated
from the French by Noëlle Vahanian, Ph.D. and recast by the author.
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter
1. Through Whose Language We Are Spoken For — God and the
Iconoclasm of Language — Technology and the Utopianism of Faith
Chapter
2. Language and Utopia: God —
Ushering Nature: The Maker — Shepherding History: The Redeemer —
Pleroma of the World — From God who Saves to God who Reigns
Chapter
3. Salvation and Utopia: The Christ — Through Whom the Human is
God’s Condition — God and Man in the Measure of the Christ
Chapter
4. Utopianism of the Body and Social Order: the Spirit — Order and
the Spirit — Neither Jew, Nor Greek: The Church
Envoi
Reviewers have said
“In Anonymous God, Gabriel Vahanian invites us to do theology with
him. He calls us to join him in reading today's world and our life
in it through the iconoclastic corrective lenses that the Bible is….
Reading Vahanian, meditating
his words, opens up before us…a much needed vision that unsettles
the comfort of our theological habits and makes room for hope.”
— Daniel Patte, Vanderbilt University
“In this extraordinary biblical theology of the word Vahanian has
given us an account of God's creative utterance, one in which the
text exemplifies the linguistic acts it describes…. Spellbinding and profound, this book can be appropriated both as a new
poetic liturgy and as a complex text that requires the most
attentive reading.”
— Edith Wyschogrod, Rice University
About the Author
Gabriel Vahanian holds the degree Docteur en Théologie, Strasbourg and
that of both Th.D and Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary.
Among many prestigious positions held by Dr. Vahanian is that of
founder and director of Graduate Studies in Religion at Syracuse
University. He is known for several notable books during his time in
the United States, among which are counted The Death of God: The
Culture of Our Post-Christian Era, Wait Without Idols,
No Other God, and God and Utopia: The Church in a
Technological Civilization. Since the mid-1980s, Professor
Vahanian has been at the Université des Sciences Humaines,
Strasbourg. While his theology has continued to develop, most of his
publications have been in French and less accessible to an American
audience. Anonymous God is a translation of his Dieu
Anonyme, which appeared in France in 1989.
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