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The touch of transcendence : a postcolonial theology of God / Mayra Rivera.

Title
The touch of transcendence : a postcolonial theology of God / Mayra Rivera.
Author
Rivera, Mayra.
Publication
Louisville : Westminster John Knox Press, c2007.

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Details

Description
xi, 186 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
"How far away is God? How different is God from human beings? In this work, Mayra Rivera's answer is that God is not within human grasp but always within human touch. Engaging liberation theology, radical orthodoxy, feminism, and postcolonialism, Rivera produces a concept of God as transcendent within - concentrating on transcendence as a relationship and using it to describe how humans can touch God." --Book Jacket.
Subject
  • Christian sociology
  • God (Christianity)
  • Postcolonial theology
  • Postcolonialism
  • Transcendence of God
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-181) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction -- Radical transcendence? -- Intracosmic transcendence: liberation theology -- Transcendence in the face of the other -- Trasncendence in the flesh of the other -- Transcendence of planetary creatures -- The touch of transcendence.
ISBN
  • 9780664230739 (alk. paper)
  • 0664230733 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2006048911