Bodies Inhabiting the World

Derek R. Nelson is professor of religion at Wabash College.Niels Henrik Gregersen is professor of systematic theology at the University of Copenhagen.Bengt Kristensson Uggla is professor of philosophy, culture, and management at Åbo Akademi University.

Scandinavian Creation theology is a dynamic and significant contribution to contemporary constructive theology. The name should not mislead you, though: The volume shows the international relevance its resources represent, and contains insights that can be employed in a profound manner by scholars in other parts of the world, as well. Thus, SCT it is part of a wider web of theological work that goes on in the present in order to enhance our understanding of the depths of human existence and experience

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Belonging, Comfort and Delight: An Invitation to Home and SCT, Derek R. NelsonPart I: Home and Creation: Place, Journey and ArrivalChapter 1: Home and Creation Dynamics, Bengt Kristensson UgglaChapter 2: Living on Borrowed Ground: Inhabitation as Lived Creation Theology, Mary Emily Briehl Duba, Chapter 3: Coming Home to God: Procession and Return in Pseudo-Dionysius and Marguerite Porete, Ryan McAnnally-LinzChapter 4: Pilgrim's Homecoming, Svein Aage Christoffersen,Part II: Homes, Bodies and SocietyChapter 5: The Body as Home and Horizon, Allen G. JorgensonChapter 6: Who Does Not Want to Have a Family? Home and Family, Reality and Ideal, Elisabeth GerleChapter 7: Home Is Where Trust Is: Exilic Existence and Theological Trust Culture in Luther and Løgstrup, Sasja Emilie Mathiasen StopaChapter 8: Expectations of a Second-Skin Dwelling: Some Theo-political Reflections on the Significance of Homes, Trygve WyllerChapter 9: Ordinary Lives and the Home as a Safe Space, Else Marie Wiberg PedersenPart III: Cosmos as HomeChapter 10: Deep Inhabitations: Home and Cosmos in Scandinavian Creation Theology, Niels Henrik GregersenChapter 11: At Home in the Universe? Jakob WolfChapter 12: At Home in the Cosmos, Ted PetersChapter 14: Embodying Creation and Gospel: Thinking With and After Gustaf Wingren, Lois MalcomAbout the Contributors