Joseph S. Flipper

Nothing Gained Is Eternal

Theology

“Tradition is the act of passing on God's self-revelation. But theology, Carpenter argues, has not sufficiently engaged its action. Carpenter's metaphysic of tradition turns to its undersides, both its structure--the columns and beams inside its walls--and those on the undersides of history. Carpenter picks up where the twentieth-century authors of ressourcement left off, reading tradition through James Baldwin, M. Shawn Copeland, and Willie Jennings. Nothing Gained Is Eternal is methodologically inventive and ambitious, fully engaged with the theological tradition but refusing to follow the usual paths.”