
Polyphonic Thinking and the Divine.
Title:
Polyphonic Thinking and the Divine.
Author:
Kanaris, Jim.
ISBN:
9789401208925
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (193 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Part One: IDENTITY, THEOLOGY, FAITH -- ONE Theology and the Obsession with Identity -- TWO Religion, Faith, and the Human Future -- THREE In What Sense is Faith Rational? The Case of Bernard Lonergan -- FOUR Divine Elbow Room -- FIVE Divine Impotence -- Part Two: ALTERITY, METHOD, TOPOLOGY -- SIX The Levinasian Psychism and its "Others" -- SEVEN Zange and Sorge: Models of "Concern" in Comparative Philosophy of Religion -- EIGHT Enecstasis: A Disposition for our Times? -- Part Three: RELIGION, GLOBALITY, RELATIONALITY -- NINE Can We Continue to Use the Word "Religion" with Impunity? -- TEN On Relations without Relations: Religion, Literature, and Psychoanalysis in Julia Kristeva's Theory -- ELEVEN Doing Philosophy of Religion as Glocal Losers -- TWELVE Deictics: The Other as Quest -- THIRTEEN Owing Life: Surviving Your Father -- WRITINGS BY MAURICE BOUTIN -- WORKS CITED -- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX.
Abstract:
Philosophy of religion is a highly diversified field. An apt description of it is "zoo." It conjures imagery of a species-wide cacophony of sights and sounds. While some bemoan what this description implies, Contributors to this volume appreciate it. There is no reason why a zoo should intimate a den of confusion rather than an important condition of emergence and novelty. "Polyphonic" is the catchall term to capture this sentiment. It signals a way of thinking that resists the desire to siphon insight into manageable packets of information in the Name of historicality and finitude. A polyphonic, then, is a variegated and discontinuous study that breaks with a tradition that desires continuity and unification, without being erratic.This volume is an exercise in polyphonic thinking. Each contributing scholar develops ideas in connection with his or her research interests. Despite the fluctuation of themes, symmetry exists as each piece sounds off a core melody of religion and the divine. The book contributes to the advancement of current research in contemporary Continental philosophy of religion. By juxtaposing articles by cultural theorists and philosophers of religion, religionists and theologians, the book emphasizes the importance of interdisciplinary and polyphonic conversation to the development of matters of topical interest and issues related to method and ethics in religious studies, and theology.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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