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Mystical Theology and Continental Philosophy

Author : David Lewin,Simon D. Podmore,Duane Williams
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317090939

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Exploration of the interface between mystical theology and continental philosophy is a defining feature of the current intellectual and even devotional climate. But to what extent and in what depth are these disciplines actually speaking to one another; or even speaking about the same phenomena? This book draws together original contributions by leading and emerging international scholars, delineating emerging debates in this growing and dynamic field of research, and spanning mystical and philosophical traditions from the ancient, to the medieval, modern, and contemporary. At the heart of which lies Meister Eckhart, perhaps the single most influential Christian mystic for modern times. The book is organised around significant historical and contemporary figures who speak across the intersections of philosophy and theology, offering new insights into key interlocutors such as Pseudo-Dionysius, Augustine, Isaac Luria, Eckhart, Hegel, Heidegger, Marion, Kierkegaard, Deleuze, Laruelle, and Žižek. Designed both to contribute to current trends in mystical theology and philosophy, and elicit dialogue and debate from further afield, this book speaks within an emerging space exploring the retrieval of the mystical within a post-secular context.

Mystical Theology and Continental Philosophy

Author : David Lewin,Simon D. Podmore,Duane Williams
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317090946

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Mystical Theology and Continental Philosophy by David Lewin,Simon D. Podmore,Duane Williams Pdf

Exploration of the interface between mystical theology and continental philosophy is a defining feature of the current intellectual and even devotional climate. But to what extent and in what depth are these disciplines actually speaking to one another; or even speaking about the same phenomena? This book draws together original contributions by leading and emerging international scholars, delineating emerging debates in this growing and dynamic field of research, and spanning mystical and philosophical traditions from the ancient, to the medieval, modern, and contemporary. At the heart of which lies Meister Eckhart, perhaps the single most influential Christian mystic for modern times. The book is organised around significant historical and contemporary figures who speak across the intersections of philosophy and theology, offering new insights into key interlocutors such as Pseudo-Dionysius, Augustine, Isaac Luria, Eckhart, Hegel, Heidegger, Marion, Kierkegaard, Deleuze, Laruelle, and Žižek. Designed both to contribute to current trends in mystical theology and philosophy, and elicit dialogue and debate from further afield, this book speaks within an emerging space exploring the retrieval of the mystical within a post-secular context.

Forms of Transcendence

Author : Sonia Sikka
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438419985

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This book sets up a dialogue between Heidegger and four medieval authors: St. Bonaventure, Meister Eckhart, Johannes Tauler, and Jan van Ruusbroec. Through a close reading of medieval and Heideggerian texts, the book brings to light elements that present possibilities for a revised appropriation of some traditional metaphysical and theological ideas, arguing that, in spite of Heidegger's critique of "ontotheology," many aspects of his thought make a positive, and not exclusively critical, contribution. Unlike some past studies of the relation between Heidegger and medieval mysticism, this book seeks to establish a real identity between the content, the subject-matter (Sache), of the medieval and Heideggerian texts that it examines. In so doing, it challenges Heidegger's own assertion that what he calls "being" cannot be called God. Against this assertion, Sikka argues that what is to be called God remains an open question, and points out metaphysical and theological elements in Heidegger's reflections on being that help to answer this question. Offering new insights into the relation between metaphysics, theology, and mysticism, the book contributes not only to Heidegger studies but to philosophical theology as well.

Forms of Transcendence

Author : Sonya Sikka
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791433455

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Forms of Transcendence by Sonya Sikka Pdf

Oriented toward the question of God, this book sets up a dialogue between Heidegger and four medieval authors: St. Bonaventure, Meister Eckhart, Johannes Tauler, and Jan van Ruusbroec.

Speculation, Heresy, and Gnosis in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion

Author : Joshua Ramey,Matthew S. Haar Farris
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786601421

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Speculation, Heresy, and Gnosis in Contemporary Philosophy of Religion by Joshua Ramey,Matthew S. Haar Farris Pdf

This volume takes a multi-disciplinary approach to continental philosophy of religion, engaging with philosophy, theology, religious studies, anthropology, cultural studies, and new religious movements, to explore patterns of mind and mortality, existence and ecstasy, creativity and expression, political possibility and religious matrix.

Confessions of a Rational Mystic

Author : Gregory Schufreider,Anselmus (Cantuariensis.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Religion
ISBN : 155753036X

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Confessions of a Rational Mystic by Gregory Schufreider,Anselmus (Cantuariensis.) Pdf

Confessions of a Rational Mystic exposes both aspects of this transitional thinker through a multidimensional interpretation of his Pioslogion. It treats Anselm's famous proof for the existence of God as both a rational argument and an exercise in mystical theology, analyzing the logic of its reasoning while providing a phenomenological account of the vision of God that is embedded within it. Through a deconstructive reading of the cycle of prayer and proof that forms the overall structure of the text, not only is the argument returned to its place in the Proslogion as a whole, but the historic relationship that it attempts to establish between faith and reason is examined. In this way, the critical role that Anselm played in the history of philosophy is seen in a new light.

Christian Mysticism and Incarnational Theology

Author : Dr Louise Nelstrop,Dr Simon D Podmore
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781472419033

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Christian Mysticism and Incarnational Theology by Dr Louise Nelstrop,Dr Simon D Podmore Pdf

This book examines the relationship between transcendence and immanence within Christian mystical and apophatic writings. Original essays from a range of leading, established, and emerging scholars in the field focus on the roles of language, signs, and images, and consider how mystical theology might contribute to contemporary reflection on the Word incarnate. This collection of essays re-examines works from such canonical figures as Eckhart, Augustine, Plotinus, Pseudo-Dionysius, Nicolas of Cusa, Teresa of Avila, John of the Cross, Julian of Norwich, along with the philosophical thought of Iris Murdoch, Jacques Lacan, and Martin Heidegger, and the contemporary phenomena of the Emerging Church. Presenting new readings of key ideas in mystical theology, and renewed engagement with the visionary and the everyday, the therapeutic and the transformative, these essays question how we might think about what may lie between transcendence and immanence.

Theology and Contemporary Continental Philosophy

Author : Colby Dickinson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786610614

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Theology and Contemporary Continental Philosophy by Colby Dickinson Pdf

This concise yet thorough summary of 20th century continental thought explores research questions that are relevant to contemporary developments in the fields of continental philosophy and political theology, wrestling with the implications of entering a post-secular epoch in both fields.

The Mystical Element in Heidegger's Thought

Author : John D. Caputo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015005072577

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Imprint stamped on t.p. Bibliography: p. 279-288. Includes index.

A Theology of Failure

Author : Marika Rose
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780823284085

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Everyone agrees that theology has failed; but the question of how to understand and respond to this failure is complex and contested. Against both the radical orthodox attempt to return to a time before the theology’s failure and the deconstructive theological attempt to open theology up to the hope of a future beyond failure, Rose proposes an account of Christian identity as constituted by, not despite, failure. Understanding failure as central to theology opens up new possibilities for confronting Christianity’s violent and kyriarchal history and abandoning the attempt to discover a pure Christ outside of the grotesque materiality of the church. The Christian mystical tradition begins with Dionysius the Areopagite’s uncomfortable but productive conjunction of Christian theology and Neoplatonism. The tensions generated by this are central to Dionysius’s legacy, visible not only in subsequent theological thought but also in much twentieth century continental philosophy as it seeks to disentangle itself from its Christian ancestry. A Theology of Failure shows how the work of Slavoj Žižek represents an attempt to repeat the original move of Christian mystical theology, bringing together the themes of language, desire, and transcendence not with Neoplatonism but with a materialist account of the world. Tracing these themes through the work of Dionysius and Derrida and through contemporary debates about the gift, violence, and revolution, this book offers a critical theological engagement with Žižek's account of social and political transformation, showing how Žižek's work makes possible a materialist reading of apophatic theology and Christian identity.

Contemporary Debates in Negative Theology and Philosophy

Author : Nahum Brown,J. Aaron Simmons
Publisher : Springer
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319659008

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Contemporary Debates in Negative Theology and Philosophy by Nahum Brown,J. Aaron Simmons Pdf

In this volume, scholars draw deeply on negative theology in order to consider some of the oldest questions in the philosophy of religion that stand as persistent challenges to inquiry, comprehension, and expression. The chapters engage different philosophical methodologies, cross disciplinary boundaries, and draw on varied cultural traditions in the effort to demonstrate that apophaticism can be a positive resource for contemporary philosophy of religion.

The Self-Emptying Subject

Author : Alex Dubilet
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823279487

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Against the two dominant ethical paradigms of continental philosophy–Emmanuel Levinas’s ethics of the Other and Michel Foucault’s ethics of self-cultivation—The Self-Emptying Subject theorizes an ethics of self-emptying, or kenosis, that reveals the immanence of an impersonal and dispossessed life “without a why.” Rather than aligning immanence with the enclosures of the subject, The Self-Emptying Subject engages the history of Christian mystical theology, modern philosophy, and contemporary theories of the subject to rethink immanence as what precedes and exceeds the very difference between the (human) self and the (divine) other, between the subject and transcendence. By arguing that transcendence operates and subjects life in secular no less than in religious domains, this book challenges the dominant distribution of concepts in contemporary theoretical discourse, which insists on associating transcendence exclusively with religion and theology and immanence exclusively with modern secularity and philosophy. The Self-Emptying Subject argues that it is important to resist framing the relationship between medieval theology and modern philosophy as a transition from the affirmation of divine transcendence to the establishment of autonomous subjects. Through an engagement with Meister Eckhart, G.W.F. Hegel, and Georges Bataille, it uncovers a medieval theological discourse that rejects the primacy of pious subjects and the transcendence of God (Eckhart); retrieves a modern philosophical discourse that critiques the creation of self-standing subjects through a speculative re-writing of the concepts of Christian theology (Hegel); and explores a discursive site that demonstrates the subjecting effects of transcendence across theological and philosophical operations and archives (Bataille). Taken together, these interpretations suggest that if we suspend the antagonistic relationship between theological and philosophical discourses, and decenter our periodizing assumptions and practices, we might encounter a yet unmapped theoretical fecundity of self-emptying that frees life from transcendent powers that incessantly subject it for their own ends.

A Companion to Philosophy of Religion

Author : Charles Taliaferro,Paul Draper,Philip L. Quinn
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 787 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781405163576

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A Companion to Philosophy of Religion by Charles Taliaferro,Paul Draper,Philip L. Quinn Pdf

In 85 new and updated essays, this comprehensive volume provides an authoritative guide to the philosophy of religion. Includes contributions from established philosophers and rising stars 22 new entries have now been added, and all material from the previous edition has been updated and reorganized Broad coverage spans the areas of world religions, theism, atheism, , the problem of evil, science and religion, and ethics

Rethinking Philosophy of Religion

Author : Philip Goodchild
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0823222063

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Rethinking Philosophy of Religion by Philip Goodchild Pdf

These original essays reconceive the place of religion for critical thought following the recent 'turn to religion' in Continental philosophy, framing new issues for exploration, including questions of justice, anxiety, and evil; the sublime, and of the soul haunting genetics; how reason may be reshaped by new religious movements and by ritual and experience. Contributors: Pamela Sue Anderson, Gary Banham, Bettina Bergo, John Caputo, Clayton Crockett, Jonathan Ellsworth, Philip Goodchild, Matthew Halteman, Wayne Hudson, Grace Jantzen, Donna Jowett, Greg Sadler, Graham Ward, and Edith Wyschogrod.

The Decolonial Abyss

Author : An Yountae
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780823273096

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The Decolonial Abyss by An Yountae Pdf

The Decolonial Abyss probes the ethico-political possibility harbored in Western philosophical and theological thought for addressing the collective experience of suffering, socio-political trauma, and colonial violence. In order to do so, it builds a constructive and coherent thematization of the somewhat obscurely defined and underexplored mystical figure of the abyss as it occurs in Neoplatonic mysticism, German Idealism, and Afro-Caribbean philosophy. The central question An Yountae raises is, How do we mediate the mystical abyss of theology/philosophy and the abyss of socio-political trauma engulfing the colonial subject? What would theopoetics look like in the context where poetics is the means of resistance and survival? This book seeks to answer these questions by examining the abyss as the dialectical process in which the self’s dispossession before the encounter with its own finitude is followed by the rediscovery or reconstruction of the self.