Waiting and Being: Creation Freedom and Grace in Western Theology (Emerging Scholars)

The problem of creation and grace has a long history of contention within Protestant and Catholic theology involving not only internecine conflict within the traditions but fueling as well ecumenical debates that have continued a dogmatic divide. This volume traces out that conflict in modern Catholic and Protestant dogmatics and provides a historical genealogy that situates the origin of the problem within different emphases in the thought of St. Augustine. The author puts forward an argument and reconstruction of the problem that overcomes the longstanding abstractions elisions and divisions that have characterized the theological discussion. What is called for is a reclamation of the reading of Augustine in Aquinas and Luther a recovery of an ethical metaphysics and a Christological reconstruction of being and otherness as the path toward a concrete union of creation and grace.