Research Catalog

Title

A theology of compassion : metaphysics of difference and the renewal of tradition / Oliver Davies.

Author

Davies, Oliver, 1956-

Publication

London : SCM Press, 2001.

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Details

Description

xxii, 376 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"The wide-scale rejection of metaphysics today has become the test of the postmodern. In this volume Oliver Davies argues for a renewal of metaphysics, as the language of createdness, based not in a return to outmoded concepts of essence but in a dynamic new understanding of ontology as narrative and performance. His repairing of the western metaphysical tradition is grounded both in the divine self-naming in Exodus which, for the rabbis, identified God's presence in the world with God's compassionate acts, and in the compassionate resistance of Etty Hillesum and Edith Stein to the violence of the Holocaust. Building upon a new metaphysics of compassion which is attentive to the deepest histories of the contemporary world, Davies offers a renewed systematic theology of divine speech and relation, focused in Jesus Christ who, as the triadic 'Word' of God, speaks creatively at the heart of human culture and action, and, as the redeeming 'Compassion' of God, regenerates the world."--Jacket.

Subject

• Christianity > Philosophy
• Theological anthropology > Christianity
• Metaphysics
• Ontology
• Compassion > Religious aspects > Christianity
• Metaphysics
• metaphysics
• ontology (metaphysics)
• 08.31 metaphysics
• Christianity > Philosophy
• Compassion > Religious aspects > Christianity
• Ontology
• Theological anthropology > Christianity
• Barmherzigkeit Gottes
• Differenz
• Fundamentaltheologie
• Hermeneutik
• Philosophie
• Theologie
• Medelijden
• Metafysica
• Theologie

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [294]-308) and indexes.

Contents

Part I : The metaphysics of compassion : Preface ; Introduction : A. Kenotic ontology : 1. Towards a new metaphysics ; 2. The compassionate Self ; B. Narratives of existence : Introduction : the grammar of ontology .; 3. Being and oneness : hierarchy and cult ; 4. Being and nothingness : creation and community ; 5. Being and consciousness : freedom and limit ; 6. The death of being? Deconstruction and difference {u2013} Part II. A theology of compassion : C. Fundamental theology : introduction : word and silence ; 8. Fundamental theology and poetics ; 9. The structure of revelation as communication ; 10. The phenomenology of faith as cognition ; D. A systematic theology of compassion : introduction : doctrine as Christian knowledge : 11. Compassion : human and divine ; 12. Divine pragmatics : speech, space and power ; 13. The Christian church : truth as transgression {u2013} Afterword : towards a eucharistic cosmology -- Select bibliography {u2013} Notes -- Index of names -- Index of subjects.

ISBN

• 0334028337
• 9780334028338

OCLC

• ocm47867833
• 47867833
• SCSB-1233359

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library