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.
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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, this work centres around a critique of onto-theology, the importance of alterity, the decentered self, and the autonomous transcendental ego.
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For OrientationPart 1. Onto-theology and the Need to Transcend Cosmological Transcendence1. Heidegger: How Not to Speak About God2. Spinoza: The Onto-theological Pantheism of Nature3. Hegel: The Onto-theological Pantheism of SpiritPart 2. Epistemic Transcendence - The Divine Mystery4. Augustine and Pseudo-Dionysius: Negative Theology as a Break with the Onto-Theological Project5. Pseudo-Dionysius and Aquinas: How to Speak Nevertheless about God - the Analogy of Being6. Barth: How to Speak Nevertheless about God - the Analogy of FaithPart 3. Ethical and Religious Transcendence - The Divine Imperative7. Levinas: Beyond Onto-Theology to Love of Neighbor8. Kierkegaard: Beyond Onto-Theology to Love of GodConclusionIndex
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" ... good things to offer."--The Expository Times, May 2004
New thinking about the transcendence of God in a theistic context

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ISBN
9780253216878
Publisert
2004-07-16
Utgiver
Vendor
Indiana University Press
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
256

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Biographical note

Merold Westphal is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University. He is the author of God, Guilt, and Death (IUP, 1987) and History and Truth in Hegel’s Phenomenology, 3rd ed. (IUP, 1998), and editor of Postmodern Philosophy and Christian Thought (IUP, 2000).