In Participating in God, Paul Fiddes seeks to develop an image of God that is both appropriate to the demands of pastoral care and firmly grounded in the revelation of God. He explores the way in which pastoral care shapes our doctrine of God and how faith in the triune God in turn shapes the practice of pastoral care. Fiddes elaborates on the Trinitarian context for the pastoral acts of intercessory prayer, suffering, granting forgiveness, the facing of death, the exercising of spiritual gifts, and the sacraments.
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Paul S. Fiddes is Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Oxford in England.
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Fiddes attempts in this book to articulate a doctrine of God that is useful for pastoral concerns. He does an excellent job. According to Fiddes, God is defined by as the movement of Trinitarian relationships. As Christians, we are called to particpate in the Triune life of God. We do so through such practices as prayer, worship, baptism, and Eucharist. We come to know God as movement of relationship through particpation. The book is divided into two sections. The first is an articulation of the doctrine of God in the terms Fiddes sets out. The second is an expansion of that doctrine into other aspects of the Christian experience, such as prayer, forgiveness, and the sacraments.
This book is extremely well put together. Though I am not sure an understanding of God as relationships would supply answers to all metaphysical questions, Fiddes does not intend to describe "the god of the philosophers." I would recommend this book for those who are interested in the Trinity and all pastors.
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Holy Spirit, Church Dogmatics, Karl Barth, Jurgen Moltmann, New Testament, Old Testament, Systematic Theology, Clarendon Press, Summa Theologiae, God the Father, New York, After Our Likeness, Jesus Christ, Cambridge University Press, Paul Tillich, The Crucified God, Fourth Gospel, Alastair Campbell, Frances Young, Jesus of Nazareth, Penguin Books, Leonardo Boff, Wolfhart Pannenberg, Fortress Press, Grand Rapids New!
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- Summa Theologiae by St.Thomas Aquinas on 8 pages
- The crucified God: The cross of Christ as the foundation and criticism of Christian theology by Jurgen Moltmann on 5 pages
- The Go-Between God (Scm Classics) by JOHN V TAYLOR on 4 pages
- The Brothers Karamazov (Signet Classics) by Fyodor Dostoevsky on page 187, page 190, and page 223
- The Christian God by Richard Swinburne on page 149, and page 150
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- Renewing Pastoral Practice: Trinitarian Perspectives on Pastoral Care And Counselling (Explorations in Practical, Pastoral and Empirical Theology) ... Practical, Pastoral and Empirical Theology) by Neil Pembroke in Front Matter, page 16, and Back Matter
- In Whom We Live and Move and Have Our Being: Panentheistic Reflections on God's Presence in a Scientific World by Philip Clayton in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Karl Barth's Trinitarian Theology: A Study of Karl Barth's Analogical Use of the Trinitarian Relation by Peter S. Oh on page 40, and Back Matter
- A Theology of Compassion: Metaphysics of Difference and the Renewal of Tradition by Oliver Davies in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Intercessory Prayer: Modern Theology, Biblical Teaching And Philosophical Thought by Philip Clements-Jewery in Back Matter
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