The Creativity of God

We have as a theological community generally lost a language in which to speak of the created-ness of the world. As a consequence our discourses of reason cannot bridge the way we know God and the way we know the world. Therefore argues Oliver Davies a primary task of contemporary theology is the regeneration of a Christian account of the world as sacramental leading to the formation of a Christian conception of reason and a new Christocentric understanding of the real. Both the Johannine tradition of creation through the Word and a Eucharistic semiotics of Christ as the embodied sacrificial and creative speech of God serve the project of a repairal of Christian cosmology. The world itself is viewed as a creative text authored by God of which we as interpreters are an integral part. This is a wide-ranging and convincing book that makes an important contribution to modern theology.