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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462292703321

Autore

Stiver Dan R

Titolo

Ricoeur and theology [[electronic resource] /] / Dan R. Stiver

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : T&t Clark, 2012

ISBN

1-283-73603-9

0-567-35495-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

Philosophy and Theology

Disciplina

194

230.092

230/.092

Soggetti

Philosophy, Modern

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 A hermeneutical life; Ricoeur's life; Primary themes; Method; Religion and theology; Chapter 2 The context for theology; The subject: The wounded cogito; The object: Inextricably  entangled in the world; The conflict of interpretations; Chapter 3 The framework for theology; The hermeneutical arc; The narrative arc; A framework for theology; Chapter 4 Figuration and theology; Setting the stage; Symbols; Metaphor; Narrative; Narrative theology; Chapter 5 The capable self and theology; The embodied self; The hermeneutical self; The social self

The theological selfThe capable and suffering self; Chapter 6 Thought and theology; Hermeneutical epistemology; Objectivity; Attestation; A hermeneutics of suspicion; Chapter 7 Ricoeur and theology; The eschatological horizon; The summoned self; Notes; Bibliography; Works by Paul Ricoeur; Secondary literature; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) has been heralded as one of the most notable philosophers of the twentieth century. Like a stone skipping across the philosophical pond, he would write a major work in one field, then move on to another. As a consequence, he is one of the most inter-disciplinary philosophers whose work not only brings together such areas as existentialism, phenomenology, hermeneutics,



structuralism, psychoanalysis, metaphor, narrative, and political ethics, it bridges the gulf between Continental and Anglo-American philosophy. Despite the diversity one could identify continuing threads