Bloechl, Jeffrey.

Religious Experience and the End of Metaphysics. - 1 online resource (223 pages)

Intro -- preface -- Editor's Introduction -- 1. The Disappearance of Philosophical Theology in HermeneuticPhilosophy: Historicizing and Hermeneuticizing the Philosophical Ideaof God -- 2. Rethinking God: Heidegger in the Light of Absolute Nothing, Nishida inthe Shadow of Onto-theology -- 3. Light and Shadows from the Heideggerian Interpretation of the Sacred -- 4. The Work and Complement of Appearing -- 5. Affective Theology, Theological Affectivity -- 6. Immanent Transcendence as Way to ''God'': Between Heidegger andMarion -- 7. Derrida and Marion: Two Husserlian Revolutions -- 8. The Universal in Jewish Particularism: Benamozegh and Levinas -- 9. The Kingdom and the Trinity -- 10. Ultimacy and Conventionality in Religious Experience -- contributors -- index.

Does religious thinking stand in opposition to postmodernity? Does the existence of God present the ultimate challenge to metaphysics? Strands of continental thought, especially those running from Kant, Husserl, and Heidegger, focus on individual consciousness as the horizon for all meaning and provide modern philosophy of religion with much of its present ferment. In Religious Experience and the End of Metaphysics, 11 influential continental philosophers share the conviction that religious thinking cannot afford to disengage from the challenges of modern European philosophy. Together they provide a rich and intriguing set of answers to questions surrounding the meaning of religious experience. Topics include subjectivity, selfhood, and rationality; language, community, and ethics; the influence of Jewish and eastern religions on religious experience; God as phenomenology; and religion in the postmodern age. These lucid and arresting essays bring together many of the leading voices in the contemporary continental debate on God and religion.

9780253110121


Experience (Religion).
Postmodernism.
Religion -- Philosophy.


Electronic books.

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