Research Catalog

Title

Postmodernity's transcending : devaluing God / Laurence Paul Hemming.

Author

Hemming, Laurence Paul.

Publication

London : SCM, 2005.

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Details

Description

xi, 269 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book in one way undertakes a history of the concept of the aesthetic sublime: in another it is an exploration of the limits of theological thinking, where theology is understood either as a practice arising from faith or from thinking. By examining concepts like soul, experience, analogy and truth, the author issues a provocative challenge to much contemporary Christian theology to return to a more serious engagement with philosophy. Hemming explores the confrontation with God and the gods to be found in Protagoras, Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Derrida, often offering innovative readings of these thinkers sharply at odds with accounts to be found elsewhere"--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Faith in reason

Uniform Title

Faith in reason.

Subject

• Postmodernism > Religious aspects > Christianity
• Postmodern theology
• God > History of doctrines
• Godsdienstfilosofie
• Postmodernism > religiösa aspekter > kristendom

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-257) and index.

Contents

1. Introduction -- 2. Postmodernity's transcending -- 3. Rhetor and rhetoric -- 4. truth of sublimity -- 5. soul of sublimity -- 6. Analogia Entis -- 7. Counting up to one is sublime -- 8. Negating sublimity -- 9. Devaluing God -- 10. Transcending postmodernity -- 11. Conclusion.

ISBN

• 0334029929
• 9780334029922

OCLC

• ocm62470452
• 62470452
• SCSB-9481661

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library