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Bradley G. Green's close reading of Augustine challenges Colin Gunton's argument that Augustine bequeathed to the West a theological tradition with serious deficiencies. According to Gunton, Augustine's particular construal of the doctrine of God led to fundamental problems in the relationship between creation and redemption. However, Green persuasively argues that Augustine did not sever the link between creation and redemption, but rather affirmed that the created order is a means of genuine knowledge of God by which redemption is accomplished. Green suggests the prominent role this relationship plays in Augustine's doctrines of man and God, provides the kind of relational Christian ontology that Gunton sought. In short, Augustine could have provided Gunton with fundamental theological resources in countering the modernity he so rightly challenged.

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'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.

'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) .

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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).

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