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This study offers a theological [[analysis]] of, and response to, the modern world, and is at once a [[theology]] of [[culture]] and of [[creation]]. In the first half of the [[book]], Gunton expounds some of the distinctive and often contradictory features of modern culture. It emerges that modern culture, far from being [[unique]] in its difficulties, reflects similar inadequacies in ancient [[thinking|thought]]. The distinctive pathos of modernity is to be found in one unique feature, namely the displacement of [[God]] that is a mark of all realms of life. The roots of the problem are sought beyond the Enlightenment, where they are often located, in the combination of platonism and Christian theology which dominated medieval Christian thought. At the [[heart]] of the [[matter]] is a deficient - because of an inadequately '''trinitarian''' - understanding of creation and creation’s God. The second half of the book develops a powerful [[theology]] of creation where due weight can be given to both [[universal]] and [[part]]icular, both [[society]] and the [[individual]].

This study offers a theological [[analysis]] of, and response to, the modern world, and is at once a [[theology]] of [[culture]] and of [[creation]]. In the first half of the [[book]], Gunton expounds some of the distinctive and often contradictory features of modern culture. It emerges that modern culture, far from being [[unique]] in its difficulties, reflects similar inadequacies in ancient [[thinking|thought]]. The distinctive pathos of modernity is to be found in one unique feature, namely the displacement of [[God]] that is a mark of all realms of life. The roots of the problem are sought beyond the Enlightenment, where they are often located, in the combination of platonism and Christian theology which dominated medieval Christian thought. At the [[heart]] of the [[matter]] is a deficient - because of an inadequately '''<u>trinitarian</u>''' - understanding of creation and creation’s God. The second half of the book develops a powerful [[theology]] of creation where due weight can be given to both [[universal]] and [[part]]icular, both [[society]] and the [[individual]].