The Revelatory Body: Theology as Inductive Art

Synopsis

Scripture Points To The Human Body And Lived Experience As The Preeminent Arena Of God's Continuing Revelation In The World, Says Luke Timothy Johnson. Attentively Discerning The Manifestations Of God's Spirit In And Through The Body Is Essential For Theology To Recover Its Nature As An Inductive Art Rather Than -- As Traditionally Conceived -- A Deductive Science. Willingness To Risk Engaging Actual Human Situations -- As Opposed To Abstract Conceptualizations Of Those Situations -- Is Required Of The Theologian, Johnson Argues. He Celebrates The Intimations Of Divine Presence And Power In Such Human Experiences As Play, Pain, Pleasure, Work, And Aging, Showing How Theology Can Respond Faithfully To The Living God Only By Paying Due Attention To Human Bodily Experience. Toward An Inductive Theology -- The Way Not Taken: A Disembodied Theology Of The Body -- Scripture And The Body -- Spirit And Body -- The Body At Play -- The Body In Pain -- The Passionate Body -- The Body At Work -- The Exceptional Body -- The Aging Body. Luke Timothy Johnson. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.