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Article: Divine Empathy: A Theology of God.
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- Theological Studies
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- September 1, 1997
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By Edward Farley. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1996. Pp. xvi + 320.
In keeping with his earlier theological works, Farley's latest book tackles a classical theological discussion in idiosyncratic and revisionist manner. This work, inevitably to be accounted F.'s "magnum opus," takes up the challenge of a theology of God starting from the "facticity of redemption." In F.'s view, the five ways in which the question of God is typically posed (through the retrieval of tradition, historical-cultural analysis, "world-puzzlement," praxis, and fundamental ontology) are all dependent on the prior experience of"the redemptive coming-forth of God as God" (21). Hence F. believes it ...