TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scot Douglass
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Theology of the Gap
T2  - Cappadocian Language Theory and the Trinitarian Controversy
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1100338
N2  - Between the Councils of Nicaea (AD 325) and Constantinople (AD 381), the Trinitarian controversy turned on a heated and complex discourse about the possibility of discourse. Theology of the Gap examines how the Cappadocians initially turned to the limitations of language to defeat their Neo-Arian opponents, and discovered in the process the very resources for their own production of theology and the promotion of a certain style of Christian becoming. Scot Douglass uses insights from literary theory in order to re-open the gaps central to the Cappadocians’ construction of created reality, and also to map out the coherencies they forged between the diastemic and kinetic structures of creation, language, theology, truth, spirituality, and silence. In doing so, Douglass invites the reader not only to reconsider how diastemic epistemology works itself out in Cappadocian thought, but also how this register of the Cappadocian voice speaks to contemporary notions of post-Christian theology.
KW  - Theologische Erkenntnistheorie, Kappadokier, Trinitätslehre, Geschichte 325-381, Cappadocian, Basil the Great, Trinitarian controversy, Church Father, Gregory of Nyssa
LA  - English
ER  -