Date of Award
Spring 2022
Degree Type
Open Access Dissertation
Degree Name
Religion, PhD
Program
School of Arts and Humanities
Advisor/Supervisor/Committee Chair
Christine Helmer
Dissertation or Thesis Committee Member
Kevin Wolfe
Dissertation or Thesis Committee Member
Veli-Matti Kärkkäinen
Terms of Use & License Information
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 License.
Rights Information
© 2022 Kin Ting C Cheung
Keywords
Barth, call, calling, Eckhart, form, Whitehead
Subject Categories
Religion | Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion
Abstract
This dissertation aims to show how divine calling can be considered a multifaceted reality. The theory of divine calling includes God, humans, the content of the call, and the interaction between God and humans. It embraces a wide range of data: theology, anthropology, metaphysical considerations, and subjective experience. As this dissertation wants to understand divine calling in a multifaceted way, this dissertation examines it from three different perspectives. The theology/philosophy of Karl Barth, A. N. Whitehead, and Meister Eckhart is utilized. They represent three distinctive theological forms: revelational, metaphysical, and experiential. This dissertation studies their theology/philosophy according to their forms and creates conservations among them so that they can mutually illuminate each other. A theology of divine calling is constructed by cross-examining the insights from the three perspectives. Lastly, this dissertation concludes that the divine calling is an ontological relation between God and humans. It can be understood from two perspectives. From the divine perspective, the entire Trinity involves the divine call. God evolves with humans in the cycle of divine call. From the human perspective, humans interact with the divine call and experience the transfiguration of identity.
ISBN
9798802712597
Recommended Citation
Cheung, Kin Ting Caleb. (2022). A Theology of Divine Calling in Light of Karl Barth, A.N. Whitehead, and Meister Eckhart’s Theological Forms. CGU Theses & Dissertations, 413. https://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgu_etd/413.
