Abstract

"The connection between being and time makes possible a closer link between philosophical reflection and the biblical experience of reality" : with these words Pannenberg summarizes the thesis of his recent Metaphysics and the Concept of God. Pannenberg's long-term project has been to overcome the ghettoization of theology and to demonstrate "the convergence of philosophy and religion." Here he engages in a sustained conversation with the metaphysical tradition as the dialogic partner most suited for clarifying theology's concept of God. The volume offers an excellent introduction to the crisscrossings of theology and metaphysics over the last two thousand years, as well as an example of a theologian engaged in metaphysical reflection at a sophisticated level.