God, the flesh, and the other : from Irenaeus to Duns Scotus / Emmanuel Falque ; translated from the French by William Christian Hackett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Falque, Emmanuel, 1963- author.

Contributor:

Hackett, William Christian.

Standardized Title:

Dieu, la chair et l'autre. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Fathers of the church--History and criticism.

Fathers of the church.

Christian literature, Early--History and criticism.

Christian literature, Early.

Philosophy and religion--History.

Philosophy and religion.

History.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xxv, 345 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2015.

Summary:

In God, the Flesh, and the Other, the philosopher Emmanuel Falque joins the ongoing debate about the role of theology in phenomenology. An important voice in the second generation of French philosophy's "theological turn," Falque examines philosophically the fathers of the Church and the medieval theologians on the nature of theology and the objects comprising it. Not content simply to probe the patristic and medieval roots of phenomenology, Falque works phenomenology itself into the corpus of theology. Theological concepts thus translate into philosophical terms that phenomenology should legitimately question: concepts from contemporary phenomenology such as on to-theology, appearance, reduction, body/flesh, inter-corporeity, the genesis of community, intersubjectivity, and the singularity of the other find penetrating analogues in patristic and medieval thought forged through millennia of Christological and Trinitarian debate, mystical discourses, and speculative reflection. Through Falques wide-ranging interpretive path, phenomenology finds itself interrogated-and renewed. Book jacket.

Contents:

Fons signatus: the sealed source

God

Metaphysics and theology in tension (Augustine)

God phenomenon (Jjohn Scotus Erigena)

Reduction and conversion (Meister Eckhart)

The flesh

The visibility of the flesh (Irenaeus)

The solidity of the flesh (Tertullian)

The conversion of the flesh (Bonaventure)

The other

Community and intersubjectivity (Origen)

Angelic alterity (Thomas Aquinas)

The singular other (John Duns Scotus)

By way of conclusion: toward an act of return.

Notes:

"Originally published in French in 2008 under the title Dieu, la chair et l'autre: D'Irenee a Duns Scot. Copyright (c) 2008 by Presses Universitaires de France."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780810130234

0810130238

9780810168169

0810168162

OCLC:

890971627