{"product_id":"phenomenology-of-the-devout-life-george-pattison-9780198813507","title":"Phenomenology of the Devout Life: A Philosophy of Christian Life, Part I","description":"\u003cem\u003eA Phenomenology of the Devout Life\u003c\/em\u003e is the first part of a three-part work, \u003cem\u003eA Philosophy of Christian Life\u003c\/em\u003e. Rather than approaching Christianity through its doctrinal statements, as philosophers of religion have often done, the book starts by offering a phenomenological description of the devout life as that is set out in the teaching of Francois de Sales and related authors. This is because for most Christians practice and life-commitments are more fundamental than formal doctrinal beliefs. Although George Pattison will address the metaphysical truth-claims of Christianity in Part three, the guiding argument is that it is the Christian way of life that best reveals what these beliefs really are. As the work is a philosophical study, it does not presuppose the truth of Christianity but assumes only that there is a humanly accessible meaning to the intention to live a devout life, pleasing to God. This can be said to find expression in a certain view of selfhood that emphasizes the dimensions of feeling and will rather than intellect and that culminates in the experience of the annihilation of self. This is a model of selfhood deeply opposed to contemporary models that privilege autonomous agency and the devout life is therefore presented as offering a corrective to extreme versions of the contemporary view.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e George Pattison\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0198813503\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780198813507\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford Univ PR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/25\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.20w x 0.80d","brand":"George Pattison","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47520231293183,"sku":"9780198813507","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0c6bdf8a-e977-4fc9-9256-1396c5d46dea.jpg?v=1762884337","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/phenomenology-of-the-devout-life-george-pattison-9780198813507","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}