Chasing the Shadow--The World and Its Times: An Introduction to Christian Natural Theology, Volume 2 - Hardcover

by Ephraim Radner (Author)

Christian natural theology is founded on the proper coordination of Scripture and the created world, what was once called "The Two Books" of God. Carrying forward the work he began in The World in the Shadow of God, Radner here reflects on the way that Scripture's creative relationship with temporal experience--ordering history rather than being ordered by history--opens up the natural world to its essential Scriptural meaning. Like the earlier volume, poetic description is offered as a primary vehicle for doing natural theology, which is shown to proceed according to the figural shape of the Bible's own description of the world.

Author Biography

Ephraim Radner is Professor of Historical Theology, Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto. An Anglican priest, he has authored books on ecclesiology, hermeneutics, and theological anthropology, most recently A Time to Keep: Theology, Mortality and the Shape of a Human Life; and Time and the Word: Figural Reading of the Christian Scriptures.