Divine Enticement:Theological Seductions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Divine Enticement:Theological Seductions write by Karmen Mackendrick. This book was released on 2013. Divine Enticement:Theological Seductions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Divine Enticement argues for a reconception of theology and it subject matter as modes of seduction, of both body and mind. Theological language as evocation opens onto rereadings of faith, sacrament, ethics, prayer and scripture. The conclusion argues for a sense of theology as calling upon infinite possibility.
Divine Enticement
Divine Enticement - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Divine Enticement write by Karmen MacKendrick. This book was released on 2013. Divine Enticement available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Theology usually appears to us to be dogmatic, judgmental, condescending, maybe therapeutic, or perhaps downright fantastical - but seldom enticing. Divine Enticement takes as its starting point that the meanings of theological concepts are not so much logical, truth-valued propositions - affirmative or negative - as they are provocations and evocations. Thus it argues for the seductiveness of both theology and its subject - for, in fact, infinite seduction and enticement as the very sense of theological query. The divine name is one by which we are drawn toward the limits of thought, language, and flesh. The use of language in such conceptualization calls more than it designates. This is not a flaw or a result of vagueness or imprecision in theological language but rather marks the correspondence of such language to its subject: that which, outside of or at the limit of our thought, draws us as an enticement to desire, not least to intellectual desire. Central to the text is the strange semiotics of divine naming, as a call on that for which there cannot be a standard referent. The entanglement of sign and body, not least in interpretations of the Christian incarnation, both grounds and complicates the theological abstractions. A number of traditional notions in Christian theology are reconceived here as enticements, modes of drawing the desires of both body and mind: faith as "thinking with assent"; sacraments as "visible words" read in community; ethics as responsiveness to beauty; prayer as the language of address; scripture as the story of meaning-making. All of these culminate in a sense of a call to and from the purely possible, the open space into which we can be enticed, within which we can be divinely enticing. -- Publisher's website.
Desire, Faith, and the Darkness of God
Desire, Faith, and the Darkness of God - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Desire, Faith, and the Darkness of God write by Eric Bugyis. This book was released on 2015-11-15. Desire, Faith, and the Darkness of God available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the face of religious and cultural diversity, some doubt whether Christian faith remains possible today. Critics claim that religion is irrational and violent, and the loudest defenders of Christianity are equally strident. In response, Desire, Faith, and the Darkness of God: Essays in Honor of Denys Turner explores the uncertainty essential to Christian commitment; it suggests that faith is moved by a desire for that which cannot be known. This approach is inspired by the tradition of Christian apophatic theology, which argues that language cannot capture divine transcendence. From this perspective, contemporary debates over God’s existence represent a dead end: if God is not simply another object in the world, then faith begins not in abstract certainty but in a love that exceeds the limits of knowledge. The essays engage classic Christian thought alongside literary and philosophical sources ranging from Pseudo-Dionysius and Dante to Karl Marx and Jacques Derrida. Building on the work of Denys Turner, they indicate that the boundary between atheism and Christian thought is productively blurry. Instead of settling the stale dispute over whether religion is rationally justified, their work suggests instead that Christian life is an ethical and political practice impassioned by a God who transcends understanding.
Mystical Theology and Continental Philosophy
Mystical Theology and Continental Philosophy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mystical Theology and Continental Philosophy write by David Lewin. This book was released on 2017-05-18. Mystical Theology and Continental Philosophy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Refiguring Theological Hermeneutics
Refiguring Theological Hermeneutics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Refiguring Theological Hermeneutics write by M. Grau. This book was released on 2014-12-17. Refiguring Theological Hermeneutics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Grau reconsiders the relationship between "logos" and "mythos" as a precondition to opening theological hermeneutics to discourse from other cultures and genres, other modes of telling and retelling.
