Explorations in Ecclesiology and Ethnography (Studies in Ecclesiology and Ethnography)

by Christian B. Scharen

deeper perspective on what it means to think of theology as a process not just of understanding God but of all things in relation to God as their source, sustainer, and consummation. This is not simply about completing our knowledge of things by bringing them into explicit relation with the only finally adequate perspective within which to understand them. It is every bit as much about the deepening and enriching of our theological understanding through asking after the myriad particular ways in which something of the goodness of God is shown in and through finite, created reality — albeit always in partial and disfigured form — and what it means to live before and within the gift of God in these circumstances (who in God’s-self remains unknowable).