Theology and Difference: The Wound of Reason"... provocative and rewarding... " -- Religious Studies Review "... a tour de force."Â -- Theological Studies Theology and Difference reconceives the options confronting modern theology and investigates the disputed questions that underlie it. Pressing beyond the ready-made enlightenment offered by the subject-object framework, Walter Lowe uncovers a number of remarkable convergences between the contemporary philosopher Jacques Derrida and the early twentieth-century theologian Karl Barth. |
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... reality of human pain- a theology required by the mass violence of the twentieth century . Yet , awareness of violence need not en- tail a belittling of reason . Lowe opens the ( continued on back flap ) The Indiana Series in the ...
... reality of human pain- a theology required by the mass violence of the twentieth century . Yet , awareness of violence need not en- tail a belittling of reason . Lowe opens the ( continued on back flap ) The Indiana Series in the ...
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... reality of suffering . Adorno is in this regard a proponent of what John Caputo has recently termed " radical hermeneutics " —rigorous reflection which would face up " to the limits of our situation , to the illusions of which we are ...
... reality of suffering . Adorno is in this regard a proponent of what John Caputo has recently termed " radical hermeneutics " —rigorous reflection which would face up " to the limits of our situation , to the illusions of which we are ...
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... reality or the legitimacy of that domain . When it comes to faith and reason , he has refused to get into the ring . And conversely , the same thing is said from the other side regarding the philosophic sources . Certainly the ...
... reality or the legitimacy of that domain . When it comes to faith and reason , he has refused to get into the ring . And conversely , the same thing is said from the other side regarding the philosophic sources . Certainly the ...
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Contents
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Barths Epistle to the Romans | 33 |
Freud Husserl Derrida | 48 |
Ricoeur and Theological Hermeneutics | 58 |
The Deconstructionist Alternative | 66 |
The Kantian Opening | 75 |
The Otherness of the Ethical | 102 |
The Ethics of Otherness | 127 |
NOTES | 147 |
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY | 165 |
INDEX | 178 |
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Page 82 - See, thro' this air, this ocean, and this earth, All matter quick, and bursting into birth. Above, how high progressive life may go! Around, how wide! how deep extend below! Vast chain of being! which from God began, Natures aethereal, human, angel, man, Beast, bird, fish, insect, what no eye can see, No glass can reach; from infinite to thee, From thee to nothing.
Page 28 - I run eagerly into this resounding tumult. I grasp the hands of those next me, and take my place in the ring to suffer and to work, taught by an instinct, that so shall the dumb abyss be vocal with speech. I pierce its order ; I dissipate its fear ; I dispose of it within the circuit of my expanding life.
Page 83 - Tis ours to trace him only in our own. He, who through vast immensity can pierce, See worlds on worlds compose one universe, Observe how system into system runs, What other planets circle other suns, What varied being peoples every star, May tell why Heaven has made us as we are.
Page 85 - Let me tell you then why the creator made this world of generation. He was good, and the good can never have any jealousy of anything. And being free from jealousy, he desired that all things should be as like himself as they could be.
Page 83 - Look'd through? or can a part contain the whole? Is the great chain, that draws all to agree, And drawn, supports, upheld by God or thee?
Page 76 - Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and the more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.
Page 77 - Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
Page 150 - We may insist as much as we like that the human intellect is weak in comparison with human instincts, and be right in doing so. But nevertheless there is something peculiar about this weakness. The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.