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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463462603321

Autore

MacKendrick Karmen <1962->

Titolo

Divine enticement [[electronic resource] ] : theological seductions / / Karmen MacKendrick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-8232-4293-5

0-8232-4633-7

0-8232-4292-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 p.)

Disciplina

230

Soggetti

Philosophical theology

Theology, Doctrinal

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 (p. 281-300) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: from the presence to the sign -- Seductive epistemology: thinking with assent -- Reading rites: sacraments and the community of signs -- Because being here is so much: ethics as the artifice of attention -- Prayer: addressing the name -- Take and read: Scripture and the enticement of meaning -- In place of a conclusion: thoughts on a prior possible.

Sommario/riassunto

Theology usually appears to us to be dogmatic, judgmental condescending, maybe therapeutic, or perhaps downright fantastical - but seldom enticing. 'Divine Enticement' takes as its starting point that the meanings of theological concepts are not so much logical, truth-valued propositions - affirmative or negative - as they are provocations and evocations. Thus it argues for the seductiveness of both theology and its subject - for, in fact, infinite seduction and enticement as the very sense of theological query.