Between Vision and Obedience--Rethinking Theological Epistemology: Theological Reflections on Rationality and Agency with Special Reference to Paul Ri (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781620327272)

The discussions about subject and validation in our late modernity tend to oscillate between the "weak" self of postmodernity ("empty" or "rhetorical") and neo-Cartesian versions trying, as they do, to recover a discredited foundation. Correspondingly, the solutions advanced range from calls for a "New Enlightenment" (in the face of the resurgence of myth and "the irrational") to attempts to "re-enchant the world" (in the face of the growing threat of an impersonal instrumental Reason). The present study seeks to respond theologically to such a situation from the perspective of God's action in and towards the world by engaging two prominent philosophical/theological figures who continue to inform such discussions today, namely, Georg Friedrich Hegel and Paul Ricoeur. The upshot of this response points to a view of rationality that follows the drama of God's engagement with the world, thus involving both dying and resurrection, ascesis and abundance, suffering witness and eucharistic communion.

Author: George Ille
ISBN-10: 1620327279
ISBN-13: 9781620327272
Publisher: Pickwick Publications
Language: English
Published: 12/12/2013
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d