{"product_id":"the-one-in-the-many-joseph-a-bracken-9780802848925","title":"The One in the Many: A Contemporary Reconstruction of the God-World Relationship","description":"Classical notions of truth and objectivity have steadily eroded in the face of postmodernism. Meeting this challenge head-on, Joseph Bracken here reconstructs the metaphysical tradition of the West on solid new foundations. Drawing on the thought of Alfred North Whitehead, Ervin Laszlo, and J rgen Habermas, Bracken presents a new philosophical perspective that roots the relationship between God and the world in community. Bracken first answers objections to the possibility of developing a new metaphysics in our postmodern age. He then lays out the \"vertical\" and \"horizontal\" dimensions of his new metaphysical scheme, a constructive perspective that results in a consciously communitarian understanding of the God-world relationship. The uniqueness of Bracken's position is its advocacy of a strictly \"social ontology\" in which the classical relationship of the One and the Many is reversed - not the transcendence of the One over the Many but its emergence out of the Many in dynamic relationship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph A. Bracken\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0802848923\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802848925\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/10\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.61d","brand":"Joseph A. Bracken","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45180141338879,"sku":"9780802848925","price":25.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1ed00f52-1ab0-495a-ae43-4456a077438d.jpg?v=1712897584","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-one-in-the-many-joseph-a-bracken-9780802848925","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}