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God Being Nothing: Toward a Theogony (Religion and Postmodernism)
God Being Nothing Toward a Theogony - Religion and Postmodernism Author:Ray L. Hart In this long-awaited work, Ray L. Hart offers a radical speculative theology that profoundly challenges classical understandings of the divine. God Being Nothing contests the conclusions of numerous orthodoxies by asking a simple question: How can thinking of God reach closure when the subjects of creation are themselves unfinished, when God?s s... more »elf-revelation in history is ongoing, when the manifestation of God is still occurring?
Drawing on a lifetime of reading in philosophy and religious thought, Hart unfolds a vision of God perpetually in process: an unfinished God self-created from nothingness. Breaking away from the focus on divine persons, Hart reimagines the Trinity to cover theogony, cosmogony, and anthropogony?an ever-emerging Godhead encompassing temporal creation and human existence. The book?s ultimate implication is that Being and Nonbeing are therefore part of an ongoing and divine process of living and dying that involves all things, existent and non-existent, temporal and eternal. In this process, God?s continual generation from nothing, which makes doctrinal closure impossible, leads instead to the actualization of freedom?the freedom to create.« less