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Overcoming onto-theology toward a postmodern Christian faith
Title:
Overcoming onto-theology toward a postmodern Christian faith
Author:
Westphal, Merold.
ISBN:
9780585416687
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Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
New York : Fordham University Press, 2001.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxi, 306 p.)
Series:
Perspectives in continental philosophy ; no. 21

Perspectives in continental philosophy ; no. 21.
Contents:
Cover13; -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Overcoming Onto-theology -- 2. Heidegger's "Theologische" Jugendschriften -- 3. Hermeneutics As Epistemology -- 4. Appropriating Postmodernism -- 5. Christian Philosophers and the Copernican Revolution -- 6. Totality and Finitude in Schleiermacher's Hermeneutics -- 7. Positive Postmodernism As Radical Hermeneutics -- 8. Father Adam and His Feuding Sons: An Interpretation of the Hermeneutical Turn in Continental Philosophy -- 9. Deconstruction and Christian Cultural Theory: An Essay on Appropriation -- 10. Laughing at Hegel -- 11. Derrida As Natural Law Theorist -- 12. Faith As the Overcoming of Ontological Xenophobia -- 13. Divine Excess: The God Who Comes After -- 14. Nietzsche As a Theological Resource -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
'Overcoming Onto-theology' is a collection of essays by Merold Westphal, one of America's leading continental philosophers of religion, in which he carefully explores the nature and the structure of a postmodern Christian philosophy.
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