Continental Philosophy and Theology

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-36127-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 106 Seiten, Format (B × H): 150 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 200 g

Reihe: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Theology

Continental philosophy underwent a ‘return to religion’ or a ‘theological turn’ in the late 20th century. And yet any conversation between continental philosophy and theology must begin by addressing the perceived distance between them: that one is concerned with destroying all normative, metaphysical order (continental philosophy’s task) and the other with preserving religious identity and community in the face of an increasingly secular society (theology’s task). Colby Dickinson argues in Continental Philosophy and Theology rather that perhaps such a tension is constitutive of the nature of order, thinking and representation which typically take dualistic forms and which might be rethought, though not necessarily abolished. Such a shift in perspective even allows one to contemplate this distance as not opting for one side over the other or by striking a middle ground, but as calling for a nondualistic theology that measures the complexity and inherently comparative nature of theological inquiry in order to realign theology’s relationship to continental philosophy entirely.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dickinson, Colby

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Continental Philosophy and Theology

Colby Dickinson

Abstract

Keywords

Introduction

Part 1: The Political-Theological Stakes of Continental Thought

Part 2: Reassessing the Dualisms within Political Theology

Part 3: Continental Thought beyond Dualistic Thinking

Conclusion

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Colby Dickinson, Ph.D. (2012), Catholic University of Leuven, is Associate Professor of Theology at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of many books and articles, including Words Fail: Theology, Poetry, and the Challenge of Representation (Fordham, 2016).