Colin Gunton and the Failure of Augustine

Bradley G. Green is Associate Professor of Christian Thought and Tradition at Union University (Jackson, Tennessee). He is the author of Shapers of Christian Orthodoxy: Engaging with Early and Medieval Theologians (2010) and The Gospel and the Mind: Recovering and Shaping the Intellectual Life (2010).

' Bradley G. Green's book presents a picture of Augustine as an ally and resource to Gunton's trinitarian theology of creation, "a renewed theological vision of truth that does justice to the concerns of modernity and offers a way forward that is free of some of the weaknesses of the Western tradition." (p. 7) [...] Green's book is an instructive reading and a serious accomplishment in the art of theological conversation with the Church Fathers and Mothers. ' Alfred H. Yuen in Journal of Theological Studies, Vol. 63 (2), October 2012'Green's study shows that thinking of the founders of the Christian doctrine, like Augustine, and their critics in the twentieth century, like Gunton, is relevant for the contemporary discourse and we - although we may not always agree with them- time and again should enter into dialogue with them.' Anthony Dupont, Tijdschrift voor Theologie, 52:2. 2012'...Challenges the late Colin Gunton's argument that Augustine bequeathed to the West a theological tradition with serious deficiencies...' Lewis Ayres, Vigiliae Christianae 66, (2012) .'Bradley G. Green challenges what he argues are misguided reading of Augustine, which are found in some interpretations of the divide between Western and Eastern theologies.'Church Times, 13 September 2013

• Foreword by Lewis AyresAcknowledgments1 Colin Gunton and the Failure of Augustine2 Creation and Redemption in the Theology of Colin Gunton3 Being and Ontology in the Theology of Colin Gunton4 Creation and Redemption in Augustine's De Trinitate5 Being and Ontology in Augustine's De Trinitate6 A Critique of Colin Gunton7 ConclusionBibliographyIndex