Existential-Hayatological Theism |
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Authors: | William L Power |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Religion, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602, USA |
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Abstract: | One of the oldest conceptions of theology is discourse of the poets about the gods and its philosophical interpretation. Judaism
and Christianity borrowed this Greek understanding of theology and revised it only slightly to reflect its own monotheistic
vision of God and God’s relations to and with the world of nature and human existence. The question as to which philosophy
best explicates and justifies the oral and written mythopoetic discourse of the imaginative bards of Israel and the early
Christian community became a fundamental issue and has remained so through the centuries. The aim of this essay is to explore
this question once again in the context of post-liberal theology in general, the works of Abraham Heschel, Claude Tresmontant,
and the Japanese theologian Tetsaturo Ariga on an implicit biblical philosophy and the explicit metaphysical theism of Alfred
North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne. The outcome of this exploration will be a rational reconstruction or ideal type of
neo-classical theism or what I have chosen to call existential-hayatological theism. |
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Keywords: | Myth Existential faith Hayatology Philosophical interpretation God Divine perfection Neo-classical theism |
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