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Record Nr.

UNINA9910449854403321

Autore

Westphal Merold

Titolo

Transcendence and self-transcendence [[electronic resource] ] : on God and the soul / / Merold Westphal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, IN, : Indiana University Press, c2004

ISBN

0-253-11099-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Collana

Indiana series in the philosophy of religion

Disciplina

212

Soggetti

Religion - Philosophy

Transcendence (Philosophy)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Heidegger : how not to speak about God -- Spinoza : the onto-theological pantheism of nature -- Hegel : the onto-theological pantheism of spirit -- Augustine and Pseudo-Dionysius : negative theology as a break with the onto-theological project -- Pseudo-Dionysius and Aquinas : how to speak nevertheless about God--the analogy of being -- Barth : how to speak nevertheless about God--the analogy of faith -- Levinas : beyond onto-theology to love of neighbor -- Kierkegaard : beyond onto-theology to love of God.

Sommario/riassunto

The question of the transcendence of God has traditionally been thought in terms of the difference between pantheism, which affirms that God is wholly  ""within"" the world, and theism, which affirms that God is both ""within"" and ""outside"" the world, both immanent and transcendent. Against Heidegger's critique of onto-theology and the general postmodern concern for respecting and preserving the difference of the other, Merold Westphal seeks to rethink divine transcendence in relation to modes of hum