Overcoming onto-theology : toward a postmodern Christian faith / Merold Westphal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Westphal, Merold.

Series:

Perspectives in continental philosophy 1089-3938 ; no. 21.

Perspectives in continental philosophy, 1089-3938 ; no. 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity--Philosophy.

Christianity.

Postmodernism--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Postmodernism.

Physical Description:

xxi, 306 pages ; 24 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2001.

Summary:

Overcoming Onto-theology is a stunning collection of essays by Merold Westphal, one of America's leading continental philosophers of religion, in which Westphal carefully explores the nature and the structure of a postmodern Christian philosophy. Written with characteristic clarity and charm, Westphal offers masterful studies of Heidegger's early lectures on Paul and Augustine, the idea of hermeneutics, Schleiermacher, Hegel, Derrida, and Nietzsche, all in the service of building his argument that postmodern thinking offers an indispensable tool for rethinking Christian faith. A must read for every student and professor of continental philosophy and the philosophy of religion, Overcoming Onto-theology is an invaluable collection that brings together in one place fourteen provocative and lucid essays by one of the most important thinkers working in American philosophy today.

Contents:

1. Overcoming Onto-theology 1

2. Heidegger's "Theologische" Jugendschriften 29

3. Hermeneutics As Epistemology 47

4. Appropriating Postmodernism 75

5. Christian Philosophers and the Copernican Revolution 89

6. Totality and Finitude in Schleiermacher's Hermeneutics 106

7. Positive Postmodernism As Radical Hermeneutics 128

8. Father Adam and His Feuding Sons: An Interpretation of the Hermeneutical Turn in Continental Philosophy 148

9. Deconstruction and Christian Cultural Theory: An Essay on Appropriation 176

10. Laughing at Hegel 197

11. Derrida As Natural Law Theorist 219

12. Faith As the Overcoming of Ontological Xenophobia 229

13. Divine Excess: The God Who Comes After 256

14. Nietzsche As a Theological Resource 285.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

082322130X

0823221318

OCLC:

46937616