Creation And Transcendence

Author : Paul J. DeHart
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567698711

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Creation and Transcendence by Paul J. DeHart Pdf

This is a creative scholarly argument revisiting the substance, understanding, and implications of the doctrine of creation ex nihilo for contemporary theology and philosophy. Paul J. DeHart examines the special mode of divine transcendence (God's infinity) and investigates areas where accepting an infinite God presents challenging questions to Christian theology. He discusses what "saving knowledge" or "faith" would have to look like when confronted by such an unlimited conception of deity, and ponders how the doctrine of God's trinity can be brought into harmony with radical notions of transcendence, as well as ways the doctrine of creation itself is threatened when the radical otherness of the creator's mind is not maintained. DeHart engages with a diverse range of figures: Jean-Luc Marion, Schleiermacher, Kierkegaard, Kathryn Tanner, John Milbank and Rowan Williams, to illustrate his conviction. This volume deals with deep conceptual issues, indicating that creation ex nihilo remains a lively topic in contemporary theology.

Author : Anthony O'Hear
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781000164107

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Transcendence, Creation and Incarnation by Anthony O'Hear Pdf

This book expounds and analyses notions of transcendence, creation and incarnation reflectively and personally, combining both philosophical and religious insights. Preferring tender-minded approaches to reductively materialistic ones, it shows some ways in which reductive approaches to human affairs can distort the appreication of our lives and activities. In the book’s first half it examines a number of aspects of human life and experience in the thought of Darwin, Ruskin, and Scruton with a view to exploring the extent to which there could be intimations of transcendence. The second half is then devoted to outlining an account of divine creation and incarnation, deriving initially, though not uncritically, from the thought of Simone Weil. The text concludes by examining the extent to which grace is needed to engage in religious practice and belief. Taking in art, literature, music and classical Greek writings, this is a multifaceted thesis on transcendence. It will, therefore, will be of keen interest to any scholar of Philosophy of Religion, Theology, Aesthetics and Metaphysics.

Author : Nahum Brown,William Franke
Publisher : Springer
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319430928

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Transcendence, Immanence, and Intercultural Philosophy by Nahum Brown,William Franke Pdf

This book presents detailed discussions from leading intercultural philosophers, arguing for and against the priority of immanence in Chinese thought and the validity of Western interpretations that attempt to import conceptions of transcendence. The authors pay close attention to contemporary debates generated from critical analysis of transcendence and immanence, including discussions of apophasis, critical theory, post-secular conceptions of society, phenomenological approaches to transcendence, possible-world models, and questions of practice and application. This book aims to explore alternative conceptions of transcendence that either call the tradition in the West into question, or discover from within Western metaphysics a thoroughly dialectical way of thinking about immanence and transcendence.

Author : Robert Cummings Neville
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1992-02-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438414522

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God the Creator by Robert Cummings Neville Pdf

God the Creator provides a detailed exposition of a conception of God as the creator of everything determinate. It does not defend an established conception such as the Thomist, the Calvinist, or the Process theological idea, but rather elaborates the ancient theme of creation ex nihilo in a new form appropriate to the contemporary world. Part one is a rigorous philosophical development of the idea of God as creator ex nihilo, arguing that an adequate solution to the problem of the one and the many demands such a conception. This part includes a dialectical examination of contemporary and classical theories of being. Part two asks how one can have knowledge of the kind of God described previously; it deals with experience, analogy, and dialectic. Part three applies the conception developed in part one to fundamental religious conceptions such as the object of worship, the nature of religion, and the practices of private and public religious life. It presents theories arising from the conception of creation ex nihilo for the interpretation of religious concern, conversion, faith, certainty, solitude, bliss, service, liturgy, providence, evangelism, dedication, reconciliation, brotherhood, discipline, the integration of public and private religion relative to other dimensions of life, freedom, love, and glory. Though the language arises from the Christian tradition and expresses an orthodox strand of that religion, the argument weaves throughout the concerns of many world religions.

Author : Patrick Masterson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317016397

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The Sense of Creation by Patrick Masterson Pdf

What kind of experience might help to confirm and make sense of the puzzling belief in divine creation, so central to the main monotheistic religions? Anselm and Aquinas developed a philosophical understanding of 'Creation' as an asymmetrical relationship between the world and God, that is, that the world is really related to God in a relationship of total dependence but God is in no way really related to or modified by this created world. This idea of an asymmetrical relationship is the key concept unifying all aspects of this book which discusses the three main inter-related questions in a philosophical discussion about God -- the question of meaning, the question of existence, and the question of co-existence. The book explores various 'ciphers' of this asymmetrical relationship in our pre-philosophical lived experience. These are experiences such as that of the relationship between our knowledge and what we know, or our sense of obligation to our vulnerable neighbour. It argues that deciphering such experiences helps to make sense of the 'asymmetrical' relation of creation and that it in turn makes sense of them. Masterson argues further that this idea of asymmetrical relationship provides insight into the main questions of philosophy of religion and is an illuminating source of critical dialogue with contemporary Anglo/American and Phenomenological approaches in philosophy of religion.

Author : Jeremy Begbie
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467449397

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Redeeming Transcendence in the Arts by Jeremy Begbie Pdf

How can the arts witness to the transcendence of the Christian God? Many people believe that there is something transcendent about the arts, that they can awaken a profound sense of awe, wonder, and mystery, of something “beyond” this world—even for those who may have no use for conventional forms of Christianity. In this book Jeremy Begbie—a leading voice on theology and the arts—employs a biblical, Trinitarian imagination to show how Christian involvement in the arts can be shaped by the distinctive vision of God’s transcendence opened up in and through Jesus Christ.

Author : Merold Westphal
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004-07-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253110992

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Transcendence and Self-Transcendence by Merold Westphal Pdf

The question of the transcendence of God has traditionally been thought in terms of the difference between pantheism, which affirms that God is wholly "within" the world, and theism, which affirms that God is both "within" and "outside" the world, both immanent and transcendent. Against Heidegger's critique of onto-theology and the general postmodern concern for respecting and preserving the difference of the other, Merold Westphal seeks to rethink divine transcendence in relation to modes of human self-transcendence. Touching upon Spinoza, Hegel, Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius, Aquinas, Barth, Kierkegaard, Levinas, Derrida, and Marion, Westphal's work centers around a critique of onto-theology, the importance of alterity, the decentered self, and the autonomous transcendental ego. Westphal's phenomenology of faith sets this book into the main currents of Continental philosophy of religion today.

Author : Alexus McLeod,Joshua R. Brown
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350082557

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Transcendence and Non-Naturalism in Early Chinese Thought by Alexus McLeod,Joshua R. Brown Pdf

Contemporary scholars of Chinese philosophy often presuppose that early China possessed a naturalistic worldview, devoid of any non-natural concepts, such as transcendence. Challenging this presupposition head-on, Joshua R. Brown and Alexus McLeod argue that non-naturalism and transcendence have a robust and significant place in early Chinese thought. This book reveals that non-naturalist positions can be found in early Chinese texts, in topics including conceptions of the divine, cosmogony, and apophatic philosophy. Moreover, by closely examining a range of early Chinese texts, and providing comparative readings of a number of Western texts and thinkers, the book offers a way of reading early Chinese Philosophy as consistent with the religious philosophy of the East and West, including the Abrahamic and the Brahmanistic religions. Co-written by a philosopher and theologian, this book draws out unique insights into early Chinese thought, highlighting in particular new ways to consider a range of Chinese concepts, including tian, dao, li, and you/wu.

Author : John D. Caputo,Michael J. Scanlon
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253348746

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Transcendence and Beyond by John D. Caputo,Michael J. Scanlon Pdf

A benchmark volume at the intersection of philosophy and religion

Author : Robert C. Neville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:164447970

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God the Creator by Robert C. Neville Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004291690

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Transcendence and Sensoriness by Anonim Pdf

In Transcendence and Sensoriness, scholars of theology, philosophy, art, music, and architecture, discuss questions of transcendence, the human senses, and the arts through case studies considered in a broad theological framework of religious aesthetics of the arts.

Author : Duncan S. Ferguson
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781666793734

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Traces of Transcendence by Duncan S. Ferguson Pdf

The author, Duncan Ferguson, draws upon his years as chaplain and professor in university settings, where seeking answers to hard and perplexing questions are the order of the day. One that continually surfaces is whether there is any evidence of divine transcendence in the natural world, in history, or in the human experience. Is there a God who might provide universal values, guidance to those seeking solutions to the overwhelming problems we face, and a measure of inner peace for troubled souls? This question is considered one of the most difficult to answer in a definitive way, and in a university setting, it is often answered by a clear no or simple neglect in that the question is not generally viewed as within the domain of the goals of the university. Dr. Ferguson believes that it is, and that it should be explored by our best minds in our universities and indeed the best minds in the world, by those with game-changing power, and by committed and compassionate seekers. It is especially not the exclusive domain of cultic preachers. He explores what might be interpreted as evidence of a divine Transcendence, looking within the natural world, human history, the history of religious thought in the great religions, and the need for divine guidance as the human family faces the critical crisis of the survival of planet Earth. Universal values, compassion, justice, and peace, often rooted in the great religious traditions, should guide us.

Author : Kathryn Tanner
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451412339

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God and Creation in Christian Theology by Kathryn Tanner Pdf

How are God and creatures related? How can one reconcile the sovereignty and power of God with creatures' capacity to act freely?Kathryn Tanner's important and original work seeks an answer in the features and limits of traditional Christian discourse. Her search for a unique kernal or regulative dimension of the Christian doctrine of God-world relations leads her to identify in the tradition an operative "grammar&334; of meaningful theological discourse that not only informs the past but can guide the future.

Author : Chan Ho Park
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3039108441

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Transcendence and Spatiality of the Triune Creator by Chan Ho Park Pdf

Since Augustine many philosophers and theologians have discussed the relation of God to time, whereas the relation between God and space has been rarely discussed. This book deals with the relationship of God to space. Divine transcendence is one important aspect of the Christian God. However, God is also immanent in the world of space and time. The author investigates the concept of divine spatiality and presents case studies of three modern theologians: Torrance, Pannenberg and Moltmann. He also analyses divine spatiality by using Dyrness's three categories: relationship, agency and embodiment.

Author : Loránt Hegedüs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Reformed Church
ISBN : 0946068402

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A Study in the Concept of Transcendence in Contemporary German Theology by Loránt Hegedüs Pdf

This study by Hungarian theologian Lorant Hegedus relates modern German theological developments to the biblical agenda of the transcendent God and His creation. His thesis is that Christ provides our central focus for considering the transcendence of God.