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Record Nr.

UNINA9910145749603321

Autore

Desmond William <1951->

Titolo

God and the between / / William Desmond

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA : , : Blackwell Publishing Ltd, , [2008]

©2008

ISBN

1-281-30933-8

9786611309336

0-470-69250-2

0-470-69165-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (364 p.)

Collana

Illuminations--theory and religion

Disciplina

211

Soggetti

God

Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

God and the Between; Contents; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Breaking Silence about God; God and the Ethos of Being; Passing in the Ethos: Between the Given and the Good; God, Ethos, and the Fourfold Sense of Being; God, Philosophical Systematics, Religious Poetics; Exceeding System, Hyperboles, Unclogging Ways; Structure of the Work; Part I Godlessness; 1 Godlessness and the Ethos of Being; 2 Beyond Godlessness; Part II Ways to God; 3 God And The Univocal Way; 4 God and the Equivocal Way; 5 God and the Dialectical Way; 6 God and the Metaxological Way; 7 God Beyond the Between

Part III Gods8 God(s) Many and One: On Polytheism and Monotheism; 9 God(s) Personal and Transpersonal: On the Masks of the Divine; 10 God(s) Gnostic: On Passing through the Counterfeit Doubles of the Divine; 11 God(s) of the Whole: On Pantheism and Panentheism; 12 God Beyond the Whole: On the Theistic God of Creation; 13 God(s) Mystic: On the Idiocy of God; Part IV God; 14 God: Ten Metaphysical Cantos; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

An original work which rethinks the question of God in a constructive spirit, drawing its conclusions by considering ideas received from both philosophy and religion.:.; Makes an important new contribution to the



ongoing scholarly debates surrounding the intersection of philosophy and religion.; Suggests that this junction is not just dictated by religion having to prove its credentials to rational philosophy, but that it is also a matter of philosophy wondering if religion is the ultimate partner in dialogue.; Includes discussion of a wide range of significant thinkers, both traditional and c