Chasing Mystery : A Catholic Biblical Theology
ISBN: 9780814680698 | 0814680690
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Liturgical Pr
Pub. Date: 10/15/2012
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Why does God have to be so exasperatingly silent? Why can't we see him at least long enough to allay doubt? How does one grow deeper in love with God against the cultural currents of disdain and antagonism?
| Where Did God Go? | p. 1 |
| The Purpose of This Book | p. 4 |
| Biblical Theology | p. 6 |
| A Note on Absence | p. 9 |
| Methodological Perspectives | p. 14 |
| Deuteronomy's Choice | p. 18 |
| In the Beginning | p. 20 |
| Mystery and Modernity | p. 23 |
| The Issue of Invisibility | p. 23 |
| Modernity's Worldview | p. 25 |
| The Numinous M... MORE | p. 30 |
| Incomprehensibility and Hiddenness of God | p. 35 |
| Holy Text and Revelation | p. 39 |
| Access to the Bible | p. 39 |
| Jacob Wrestles with the Angel | p. 42 |
| Ask and Seek | p. 43 |
| Losing Jesus in the Temple | p. 44 |
| Wandering in the Desert | p. 45 |
| A Hermeneutics of Trust | p. 49 |
| Torah and the Agility of Faith | p. 57 |
| Theophany | p. 57 |
| The Burning Bush | p. 58 |
| Mount Sinai | p. 63 |
| The Guidance of a Cloud | p. 66 |
| The Death of Moses | p. 74 |
| Angels, Holy Sites, and Prophets | p. 75 |
| Angels | p. 76 |
| Holy Sites | p. 78 |
| Prophets | p. 81 |
| The Problem with Omnipotence | p. 85 |
| The Contesting Theophanies of Wisdom | p. 86 |
| The Power Theophany of Job | p. 87 |
| Ecclesiastes' Search for the "Vanity of Vanities" | p. 91 |
| From Vanity to Vapor | p. 93 |
| The Dilemma of Suffering | p. 101 |
| Job in Crisis | p. 101 |
| Theodicy in Christian Tradition | p. 111 |
| Varieties of Atheism | p. 114 |
| Faith after Desolation | p. 120 |
| Jesus | p. 123 |
| God Made Visible | p. 123 |
| The Father's Silence | p. 131 |
| The Vanishing Jesus | p. 133 |
| The Road to Emmaus | p. 138 |
| Real Presence | p. 141 |
| Remaining Present with God | p. 141 |
| Empirical Bias | p. 143 |
| Paradox of Faith | p. 144 |
| Real Presence | p. 146 |
| Bibliography | p. 151 |
| Subject Index | p. 159 |
| Scripture Index | p. 161 |
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Carey Walsh is associate professor of Old Testament at Villanova University. She is the author of Exquisite Desire: Religion, the Erotic, and the Song of Songs and The Fruit of the Vine: Viticulture in Ancient Israel.
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