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God, the Gift, and Postmodernism

Author : John D. Caputo,Michael J. Scanlon
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999-12-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253113320

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God, the Gift, and Postmodernism by John D. Caputo,Michael J. Scanlon Pdf

Pushing past the constraints of postmodernism which cast "reason" and"religion" in opposition, God, the Gift, and Postmodernism, seizes the opportunity to question the authority of "the modern" and open the limits of possible experience, including the call to religious experience, as a new millennium approaches. Jacques Derrida, the father of deconstruction, engages with Jean-Luc Marion and other religious philosophers to entertain questions about intention, givenness, and possibility which reveal the extent to which deconstruction is structured like religion. New interpretations of Kant, Heidegger, Husserl, and Derrida emerge from essays and discussions with distinguished philosophers and theologians from the United States and Europe. The result is that God, the Gift, and Postmodernism elaborates a radical phenomenology that stretches the limits of its possibility and explores areas where philosophy and religion have become increasingly and surprisingly convergent. Contributors include: John D. Caputo, John Dominic Crossan, Jacques Derrida, Robert Dodaro, Richard Kearney, Jean-Luc Marion, Frangoise Meltzer, Michael J. Scanlon, Mark C. Taylor, David Tracy, Merold Westphal and Edith Wyschogrod.

God's Mission and Postmodern Culture

Author : John C. Sivalon
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781570759994

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God's Mission and Postmodern Culture by John C. Sivalon Pdf

Drawing on his own mission training and experience, John Sivalon believes the gospel can and must be inculturated in any culture, and he believes that postmodernism, rather than rendering Christian mission meaningless, breathes fresh insight, vision, and life into Vatican II's notion that mission is centred in the very heart of God.

God and Religion in the Postmodern World

Author : David Ray Griffin
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0887069290

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God and Religion in the Postmodern World by David Ray Griffin Pdf

Addressed to readers who have found liberal theology empty or who believe that one cannot be religious and fully rational and empirical at the same time.

Postmodern Apologetics?:Arguments for God in Contemporary Philosophy

Author : Christina M. Gschwandtner
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823242740

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Postmodern Apologetics?:Arguments for God in Contemporary Philosophy by Christina M. Gschwandtner Pdf

Postmodern Apologetics provides an introduction to contemporary French thinkers who argue for the coherence and viability of Christian faith and religious experience with phenomenological and hermeneutical tools. It treats both French philosophers and appropriations of their thought in the North American context.

Augustine and Postmodernism

Author : John D. Caputo,Michael J. Scanlon
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-03-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780253217318

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Augustine and Postmodernism by John D. Caputo,Michael J. Scanlon Pdf

Scanlon, and Mark Vessey.Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion--Merold Westphal, general editor

What Would Jesus Deconstruct? (The Church and Postmodern Culture)

Author : John D. Caputo
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1441200363

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What Would Jesus Deconstruct? (The Church and Postmodern Culture) by John D. Caputo Pdf

This provocative addition to The Church and Postmodern Culture series offers a lively rereading of Charles Sheldon's In His Steps as a constructive way forward. John D. Caputo introduces the notion of why the church needs deconstruction, positively defines deconstruction's role in renewal, deconstructs idols of the church, and imagines the future of the church in addressing the practical implications of this for the church's life through liturgy, worship, preaching, and teaching. Students of philosophy, theology, religion, and ministry, as well as others interested in engaging postmodernism and the emerging church phenomenon, will welcome this provocative, non-technical work.

God Without Being

Author : Jean-Luc Marion
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226505664

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God Without Being by Jean-Luc Marion Pdf

Jean-Luc Marion is one of the world’s foremost philosophers of religion as well as one of the leading Catholic thinkers of modern times. In God Without Being, Marion challenges a fundamental premise of traditional philosophy, theology, and metaphysics: that God, before all else, must be. Taking a characteristically postmodern stance and engaging in passionate dialogue with Heidegger, he locates a “God without Being” in the realm of agape, or Christian charity and love. If God is love, Marion contends, then God loves before he actually is. First translated into English in 1991, God Without Being continues to be a key book for discussions of the nature of God. This second edition contains a new preface by Marion as well as his 2003 essay on Thomas Aquinas. Offering a controversial, contemporary perspective, God Without Being will remain essential reading for scholars and students of philosophy and religion. “Daring and profound. . . . In matters most central to his thesis, [Marion]’s control is admirable, and his attunement to the nuances of other major postmodern thinkers is impressive.”—Theological Studies “A truly remarkable work.”—First Things “Very rewarding reading.”—Religious Studies Review

Desire, Gift, and Recognition

Author : Jan-Olav Henriksen
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-02-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780802863713

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Desire, Gift, and Recognition by Jan-Olav Henriksen Pdf

A major work in the philosophy of religion, this book interprets the Jesus story in terms of postmodern philosophy - particularly using Jacques Derrida?s categories of "desire," "gift," and "recognition." Author Jan-Olav Henriksen also attempts to reformulate Christology without resorting to such metaphysical concepts as substance, transcendence, etc. While not denying traditional doctrines, Henriksen explicates the meaning of Jesus' life and death in ways that engage contemporary philosophy and challenge contemporary (academic) Christians to rethink the basics of their faith; and he outlines the possibility of a "post-metaphysical Christology." / Henriksen s book is a clearly reasoned guide not only to the argument that Christology still has something to say to contemporary believers but also to ways in which theologians must learn to reconnect to everyday human experience.

After God

Author : Mark C. Taylor
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226791715

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After God by Mark C. Taylor Pdf

"With fundamentalists dominating the headlines and scientists arguing about the biological and neurological basis of faith, religion is the topic of the day. But religion, Mark C. Taylor shows, is more complicated than either its defenders or critics think and, indeed, is much more influential than any of us realize. Our world, Taylor maintains, is shaped by religion even when it is least obvious. Faith and value, he insists, are unavoidable and inextricably interrelated for believers and nonbelievers alike. Using scientific theories of dynamical systems and complex adaptive networks for cultural and theological analysis, After God redefines religion for our contemporary age. Taylor begins by asking a critical question: What is religion? He then proceeds to explain how Protestant ideas in particular undergird the character and structure of our global information society--the Reformation, Taylor argues, was an information and communications revolution that effectively prepared the way for the media revolution at the end of the twentieth century. Taylor s breathtaking account of religious ideas allows us to understand for the first time that contemporary notions of atheism and the secular are already implicit in classical Christology and Trinitarian theology. Weaving together theoretical analysis and historical interpretation, Taylor demonstrates the codependence and coevolution of traditional religious beliefs and practices with modern literature, art, architecture, information technologies, media, financial markets, and theoretical biology. After God concludes with prescriptions for new ways of thinking and acting. If we are to negotiate the perils of the twenty-first century, Taylor contends, we must refigure the symbolic networks that inform our policies and guide our actions. A religion without God creates the possibility of an ethics without absolutes that leads to the promotion of creativity and life in an ever more fragile world"--Publisher description.

Questioning God

Author : John D. Caputo,Mark Dooley,Michael J. Scanlon
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253214744

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Questioning God by John D. Caputo,Mark Dooley,Michael J. Scanlon Pdf

In 15 insightful essays, Jacques Derrida and an international group of scholars of religion explore postmodern thinking about God and consider the nature of forgiveness in relation to the paradoxes of the gift. Among the themes addressed by contributors are the possibilities of imagining God as unthinkable, imagining God as non-patriarchal, imagining a return to Augustine, and imagining an age in which praise is far more important than narrative. Questioning God moves readers beyond the parameters of metaphysical reason and modernist rationality as it attempts to think the questions of God and forgiveness in a postmodernist context. Contributors include John D. Caputo, Jacques Derrida, Mark Dooley, Francis Schüssler Fiorenza, Robert Gibbs, Jean Greisch, Kevin Hart, Richard Kearney, Cleo McNelly Kearns, John Milbank, Regina M. Schwartz, Michael J. Scanlon, and Graham Ward. Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion--Merold Westphal, general editor

After God

Author : Mark C. Taylor
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226791722

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After God by Mark C. Taylor Pdf

Religion, Mark C. Taylor argues in After God, is more complicated than either its defenders or critics think and, indeed, is much more influential than any of us realize. Our world, Taylor maintains, is shaped by religion even when it is least obvious. Faith and value, he insists, are unavoidable and inextricably interrelated for believers and nonbelievers alike. The first comprehensive theology of culture since the pioneering work of Paul Tillich, After God redefines religion for our contemporary age. This volumeis a radical reconceptualization of religion and Taylor’s most pathbreaking work yet, bringing together various strands of theological argument and cultural analysis four decades in the making. Praise for Mark C. Taylor “The distinguishing feature of Taylor’s career is a fearless, or perhaps reckless, orientation to the new and to whatever challenges orthodoxy. . . . Taylor’s work is playful, perverse, rarefied, ingenious, and often brilliant.”—New York Times Magazine

Rethinking God as Gift

Author : Robyn Horner
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823221233

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Rethinking God as Gift by Robyn Horner Pdf

Rethinking God as Gift is situated at the intersection of philosophy, critical theory and theology. The first sustained study of the work of Jean-Luc Marion in English, it offers a unique perspective on contemporary questions and their theological relevance. Taking its point of departure from the problem of the gift as articulated by Jacques Derrida, who argues that the conditions of possibility of the gift are also its conditions of impossibility, Horner pursues a series of questions concerning the nature of thought, the viability of phenomenology, and, most urgently, the possibility of grace. For Marion, phenomenology, as the thought of the given, offers a path for philosophy to proceed without being implicated in metaphysics. His retrieval of several important insights of Edmund Husserl, along with his reading of Martin Heidegger and Emmanuel Lévinas, enables him to work out a phenomenology where even “impossible” phenomena such as revelation and the gift might be examined. In this important confrontation between Marion and Derrida issues vital to the negotiation of postmodern concerns in philosophy and theology emerge with vigour. The careful elucidation of those issues in an interdisciplinary context, and the snapshot it provides of the state of contemporary debate, make Rethinking God as Gift an important contribution to theological and philosophical discussion.

The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern Theology

Author : Kevin J. Vanhoozer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521793955

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The Cambridge Companion to Postmodern Theology by Kevin J. Vanhoozer Pdf

This introductory 2003 guide offers examples of different types of contemporary theology and Christian doctrine in relationship to postmodernity.

The Gifting God

Author : Stephen H. Webb
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1996-04-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780195344561

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The Gifting God by Stephen H. Webb Pdf

Theories of generosity, or gift giving, are becoming increasingly important in recent work in philosophy and religion. Stephen Webb seeks to build on this renewed interest by surveying a distinctively modern and postmodern approach to the issue of generosity, and then developing a theological framework for it. He contends that in many ways society has become suspicious of charity and generosity. This cynicism has led to quick and easy judgments, that, in turn, have led to a new orthodoxy with its own troubling consequences. Webb believes that we need to recover the generosity that our culture obscures behind this monologue on self-interest, and that theology, as a form of critical thought, can play a helpful role. Throughout the book, Webb argues for a theory of giving that is other-oriented without being self-negating. He maintains that the generosity of God's grace, properly understood, can reorient our own idea of the gift and must be correlated to our own practices of exchange and reciprocity.

The Gift of Death, Second Edition & Literature in Secret

Author : Jacques Derrida
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226142777

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The Gift of Death, Second Edition & Literature in Secret by Jacques Derrida Pdf

Translator's preface to the 2007 edition -- The gift of death -- Secrets of European responsibility -- Beyond : giving for the taking, teaching and learning to give, death -- Whom to give to (knowing not to know) -- Tout autre est tout autre -- Literature in secret : an impossible filiation -- The test of secrecy : for the one as for the other -- Father, son, and literature -- More than one