Continental Philosophy and Theology
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| Title: | Continental Philosophy and Theology |
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| Description: | Continental philosophy underwent a ‘return to religion'or a ‘theological turn'in the late 20th century. And yet any conversation between continental philosophy and theology must begin by addressing the perceived distance between them: that one is concerned with destroying all normative, metaphysical order (continental philosophy's task) and the other with preserving religious identity and community in the face of an increasingly secular society (theology's task). Colby Dickinson argues in Continental Philosophy and Theology rather that perhaps such a tension is constitutive of the nature of order, thinking and representation which typically take dualistic forms and which might be rethought, though not necessarily abolished. Such a shift in perspective even allows one to contemplate this distance as not opting for one side over the other or by striking a middle ground, but as calling for a nondualistic theology that measures the complexity and inherently comparative nature of theological inquiry in order to realign theology's relationship to continental philosophy entirely. |
| Authors: | Colby Dickinson |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Philosophical theology, Continental philosophy |
| Categories: | RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, PHILOSOPHY / General |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Continental philosophy underwent a ‘return to religion'or a ‘theological turn'in the late 20th century. And yet any conversation between continental philosophy and theology must begin by addressing the perceived distance between them: that one is concerned with destroying all normative, metaphysical order (continental philosophy's task) and the other with preserving religious identity and community in the face of an increasingly secular society (theology's task). Colby Dickinson argues in Continental Philosophy and Theology rather that perhaps such a tension is constitutive of the nature of order, thinking and representation which typically take dualistic forms and which might be rethought, though not necessarily abolished. Such a shift in perspective even allows one to contemplate this distance as not opting for one side over the other or by striking a middle ground, but as calling for a nondualistic theology that measures the complexity and inherently comparative nature of theological inquiry in order to realign theology's relationship to continental philosophy entirely. |
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| ISBN: | 9789004361270 9789004376038 |
