Michael Welker is senior professor at the University of
Heidelberg, Germany, and executive director of the Research Center
for International and Interdisciplinary Theology. He is the author
or editor of dozens of books, including God the Spirit, The Work of
the Spirit, God the Revealed, Creation and Reality, What Happens in
Holy Communion?, and The Depth of the Human Person.
"In this published version of his 2019 Gifford Lectures, Michael
Welker develops a natural theology that discerns the activity of
the divine Spirit in human culture. Though embattled, the Spirit is
constantly at work in movements that incline toward justice, peace,
freedom, and truth. Drawing upon his rich experience of
interdisciplinary conversation, Welker develops an impressively
flexible, dynamic, and historical approach. With its expanded
notion of natural theology and capacious doctrine of the Spirit,
this is set to become a landmark study in the field."
-- David Fergusson
University of Edinburgh "Welker offers us a truly embodied vision
of the human spirit as it reaches for God, but he does so from the
context of what various disciplines tell us about the complex
dangers and possibilities of life as it is actually lived. He has
made natural theology an engaging topic of interest again."
-- Frank D. Macchia
Vanguard University of Southern California "This is vintage
Welker--wonderful to read! Those who know his work will recognize
the ripened fruit of familiar convictions, insights, and
trajectories. At the same time, they may be pleasantly surprised.
Welker offers an innovative natural theology by way of 'bottom-up
thinking, ' arguing that popular views of humanity as the image of
God are hardly convincing, given the abysses of the human spirit
that are so painfully obvious in our time. Instead, he argues that
being in the image of God means being called to justice, freedom,
truth, and peace--thus growing into the image of God."
-- Dirk J. Smit
Princeton Theological Seminary
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