Buch, Englisch, Band Volume 50, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 458 g
Buch, Englisch, Band Volume 50, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 458 g
Reihe: Studies in Philosophical Theology
ISBN: 978-90-429-2634-9
Verlag: PEETERS PUB
The spectrum of religious experience and spirituality in contemporary postmodern, postsecular and religiously pluralized Western culture is extremely broad. Is it possible to trace the development, the shifts, breaches and patterns of religious and spiritual transcendence in this deeply diversified context? In this volume, a heuristic model of four types of transcendence is proposed and discussed. The four types are immanent transcendence, radical transcendence, radical immanence and transcendence as alterity. Of each type two examples from contemporary cultural discourses, ranging from theology and philosophy to popular culture are presented and the viability of the model as such is critically assessed. The pairs of examples show how different kinds of content are given to the same type. By illuminating this dialectic between formal categories of notions of transcendence and their specific content in various areas of culture, the book can aid further exploration of the preconditions, possibilities, difficulties and limitations of relating to and expressing (a) sense(s) of transcendence within a postmodern world.
