Overcoming Onto-theology is a stunning collection of essays by Merold Westphal, one of America’s leading continental philosophers of religion, in which Westphal carefully explores the nature and the structure of a postmodern Christian philosophy. Written with characteristic clarity and charm, Westphal offers masterful studies of Heidegger’s early lectures on Paul and Augustine, the idea of hermeneutics, Schleiermacher, Hegel, Derrida, and Nietzsche, all in the service of building his argument that postmodern thinking offers an indispensable tool for rethinking Christian faith. A must read for every student and professor of continental philosophy and the philosophy of religion, Overcoming Onto-theology is an invaluable collection that brings together in one place fourteen provocative and lucid essays by one of the most important thinkers working in American philosophy today.
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"Westphal here brings together his discussions over the last decade of how Christianity can and should engage and appropriate post-modernism...it's easily the best contribution to the discussion that I know of."-Nicholas Wolterstorff, Yale University
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THE ESSAYS INCLUDED IN THE VOLUME: Overcoming Onto-theology Heidegger's Theologische Jugendschriften Hermeneutics As Epistemology Appropriating Postmodernism Christian Philosophers and the Copernican Revolution Totality and Finitude in Schleiermacher's Hermeneutics Positive Postmodernism As Radical Hermeneutics Father Adam and His Feuding Sons: An Interpretation of the Hermeneutical Turn in Continental Philosophy Deconstruction and Christian Cultural Theory: An Essay on Appropriation Laughing at Hegel Derrida As Natural Law Theorist Faith As the Overcoming of Ontological Xenophobia Divine Excess: The God Who Comes After Nietzsche As a Theological Resource
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"...A welcome addition to Christian philosophy and to the interpretation of religious themes in contemporary Continental thought." -Philosophia Christi "Westphal's arguments are illuminating and provocative..." -Academic Printing and Publishing "Westphal here brings together his discussions over the last decade of how Christianity can and should engage and appropriate post-modernism...it's easily the best contribution to the discussion that I know of." -- -Nicholas Wolterstorff Yale University
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...A welcome addition to Christian philosophy and to the interpretation of religious themes in contemporary Continental thought.

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ISBN
9780823221318
Publisert
2001-09-01
Utgiver
Vendor
Fordham University Press
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
306

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Biographical note

Merold Westphal is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University and author of Suspicion and Faith: The Religious Uses of Modern Atheism.