On mysticism, ontology, and modernity a theological engagement with secularity
This new study offers a serious and long-overdue examination of the unstable bifurcation between theology and secularity. Rather than understanding these two formative elements of culture to be in a constant state of opposition, the author chooses an alternative path toward their reconciliation. In...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien
Peter Lang
2018
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Secularism
> Eckhart
> Mystik
> Ontologie
> Theologie
> Moderne
> Rezeption
> Philosophie
> Säkularisierung
> Säkularisation
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | This new study offers a serious and long-overdue examination of the unstable bifurcation between theology and secularity. Rather than understanding these two formative elements of culture to be in a constant state of opposition, the author chooses an alternative path toward their reconciliation. In this way, a constructive relationship is developed between secular and theological ideas wherein they symbiotically challenge one another in such a way as to create new and/or re-examined opportunities for thinking about God, the world, and, indeed, the self.0The book first of all embarks upon a hermeneutical reading of Meister Eckhart?s defining statement that 'Being is God' and ultimately arrives (via Kant, Hegel, Gadamer, Henry, and others) at a mystically informed understanding of God?s presence both in the world and in the 'heart and mind' of the human experience ? an understanding that defies conventional categories and static cultural identities. It is an important study of the history, the present, and the future of religious thought, presenting a hopeful image of unity and love in a world that has been for too long divided by difference |
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| Beschreibung: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 291-322 |
| Beschreibung: | viii, 324 Seiten 22.5 cm x 15 cm |
| ISBN: | 3034319886 3-0343-1988-6 9783034319881 978-3-0343-1988-1 |