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Receiving the Gift
Author(s) -
Ward Graham
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
modern theology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.144
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1468-0025
pISSN - 0266-7177
DOI - 10.1111/moth.12122
Subject(s) - orthodoxy , philosophy , articulation (sociology) , epistemology , presentation (obstetrics) , perspective (graphical) , critical reflection , focus (optics) , reflection (computer programming) , theology , sociology , law , physics , political science , medicine , pedagogy , optics , politics , computer science , radiology , programming language , artificial intelligence
Taking the C hristian S criptures as its starting point, this article attempts a critical reflection on Polydoxy . While expressing a number of sympathies with elements of the project, four questions are raised in my reception of the book. First: the roles of revealed truth and authority within polydoxy's project. Second: whether the project constructs a false foil in its presentation of “orthodoxy.” Third: the nature of the panentheism that some of the contributors to the volume espouse. And fourth: whether characterising panentheism as apophatic renders that espousal more coherent from a C hristian theological perspective. These four questions focus on the Christological models presented in Polydoxy . I conclude that C hristian orthodoxy concerns the articulation of a Christological logic that can “save us” and, on the basis of my critical reflection, I am left wondering whether the theology presented to us in Polydoxy can really do that.