The Fullness of the Logos in the Key of Life

Book II. Christo-Logos: Metaphysical Rhapsodies of Faith (Itinerarium mentis in deo)
2012
ISBN: 978-94-007-2256-9
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 111, 200 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 483 g

Reihe: Analecta Husserliana

This highly personal account of a lifetime’s spiritual and philosophical enquiry charts the author’s journey of faith through contemporary culture. Distinguishing between what she posits as the ‘universal’ and the ‘rhapsodic’ logos, Tymieniecka interrogates concepts as varied as creativity and the media, joy and suffering, and truth and ambiguity. She contemplates the possibilities and limits of communication between human beings, and outlines what she calls the ‘transnatural destiny’ of the human soul.

 The book asserts that unlike theory, which unfolds a logical continuity, and unlike dialogue, which is directed sequentially upward toward intellectual conclusions, the mode of reflection of the ‘rhapsodic logos’ imposes no limits or caps upon its understanding. Instead, the ‘logoic’ flow interlaces the rhapsodic cadences of our reflections on reality, in all their innumerable fluctuations, and sifts them to mold the intimate mind/soul inwardness that we experience as faith.

 The radiative meditations of this ‘rhapsodic logos’ weave their way through the entanglements of the mystery of incarnation, the constitutive archetypes, the inwardly sacred, the transnatural destiny of the soul, and finally ascend the  rhapsodic scales toward culminating faith in the Christo-Logos.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tymieniecka, Anna-Teresa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Christliche Spiritualität, Christliche Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Christliche Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Pro-logos
Pars I
A period of preparation for faith
the first sermon of timothy the dispossessed:

the quest
Pars II
Glimmerings
The second sermon of timothy the dispossessed:

does god speak to the soul?
Pars III
The window upon the absolute
Pars IV
Opening the window to the absolute.-
Pars V
Retracing our steps to the cave, illuminating it
Pars VI
In the pursuit of truth
Pars VII
Embodiment: our inward drama situated within:

the world of life, nature, and the cosmos
the third sermon of timothy
The mystery of incarnationpars

Pars VIII
The constitutive archetypes:

the image of god emerging at the furthest borders of conscious dealings with our primordial condition ofcontingent existence
Pars IX
The inward sacredpars
Pars X
The transnatural destiny of the soul