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Secular grace / by Dana Freibach-Heifetz ; translated from the Hebrew by Barbara Harshav.
Van Pelt Library BJ1340 .F7413 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Freibach Heifetz, Dana, author.
- Series:
- Value inquiry book series ; v. 299.
- Value inquiry book series. Ethical theory and practice
- Value inquiry book series ; volume 299
- Ethical theory and practice
- Standardized Title:
- Ḥesed ḥiloni English
- Language:
- English
- Hebrew
- Subjects (All):
- Existential ethics.
- Grace (Theology).
- Grace (Aesthetics).
- Secular humanism.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 196 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2017]
- Summary:
- In Secular Grace Dana Freibach-Heifetz addresses the crisis of modernity, proposing an ethic of love based on a new philosophical concept of "secular grace" as Intersubjective relations. Anchored in secular humanism as well as within the existentialist tradition, yet recognizing their limitations, Secular Grace seeks to protrude them by means of dialogue with their other: Christianity. Inspired by a variety of intellectual roots from ancient Greece to post modernist thinkers - chiefly the deliberations of Buber and Levinas in the encounter with the other, and notions of gift and friendship - it offers a rich concept of Secular Grace. It furthermore examines the possibilities of grace towards the dead, self-grace and secular salvation. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- A The Death of God 1
- B Freedom Devoid of Alternatives to Religion 6
- C Quasi-Religious Alternatives to Religion 8
- D Secular Humanism 10
- E Secular Grace 22
- F The Structure and Methodology of the Book 26
- 1 Grace and Salvation in Christianity 30
- A Relation 31
- The Personal Nature of the Relation of Grace 33
- B Gift 34
- Grace and the Law 35
- C Free Will to Give and to Receive 35
- D The Subjective Aspect of Grace 36
- E The Objective Aspect of Grace 43
- F Outcomes of Grace: Salvation 43
- (a) Liberation 45
- (b) Love 47
- (c) Granting Meaning to Life 48
- (d) Selfhood 48
- 2 Secular Grace: First Thoughts 51
- A General Concept of Grace 51
- The Background of Secular Grace 53
- A Relationship 55
- (a) The Sides of the Relationship of Grace 56
- (b) Equality and Reciprocity 58
- (c) Personal and Dialogic Relationship 59
- B Gift 60
- Grace and Morality 61
- C Free Will 62
- D The Subjective Aspect: Mutual Love 64
- (a) Disinterest 65
- (b) Acceptance, Identification and Respect 66
- (c) Difficulties and Dangers 67
- (d) Secular Love and Christian Love 69
- E The Objective Aspect: Acts of Grace 70
- (a) Manifestations of Grace 70
- (b) Practical Measure of Grace 71
- F Outcomes of Grace 72
- (a) Liberation 74
- (b) Love 79
- (c) Meaning 80
- (d) Selfhood 81
- (e) Other Possible Outcomes 83
- 3 Dialogue, Encounter, Friendship, Gift 86
- A I-Thou Relationship According to Buber 86
- (a) Self-Identity between Relation and Relationship 87
- (b) Characteristics of I-Thou Relationship 88
- (c) The Conditions for the Existence of I-Thou Relationship 90
- (d) Outcomes of I-Thou Relationship 90
- (e) I-Thou as Grace, Grace as I-Thou? 92
- B The Encounter with the Face of the Other in the Thinking of Levinas 95
- (a) The World of Totality and the World of Infinity 96
- (b) Self Identity in the Presence of the Other 98
- (c) Fruits of the Ethical Relation to the Other 99
- (d) The Levinasian Encounter with the Other's Face and Secular Grace 100
- C Gift and Generosity 106
- (a) What is a Gift 106
- (b) The Giver and the Receiver 109
- (c) The Measure of Giving 109
- (d) Dangers of Giving audits Difficulties 110
- (e) Secular Grace as a Gift 112
- D Friendship 116
- (a) What is Friendship 117
- (b) Between Emotion and Choice 118
- (c) Scope of Friendship 120
- (d) Conditions for Establishing Friendship 122
- (e) Friendship and Selfhood 123
- (f) Fruits of Friendship 125
- (g) Difficulties and Dangers of Friendship 127
- (h) Friendship as Secular Grace 128
- 4 Secular Grace: Further Glance 132
- A Secular Grace in Prose 132
- (a) The Grace-Path of Prince Myshkin 132
- (b) An Idiot, or: Prince Myshkin's Mistake 139
- (c) Reevaluating Prince Myshkin's Path 143
- B Grace-relation with the Dead 144
- (a) Relation with the Dead 144
- (b) Secular Grace with the Dead 149
- C Self-Grace 156
- 5 Secular Salvation? 158
- A Secular Grace and Salvation 159
- (a) Ways of Individual Secular Salvation 161
- (b) The Secular Pilgrim and His Salvation 163
- (c) Secular Grace as a Path to Salvation 165
- B Humanist, Existentialist, Secular Grace 168
- (a) Humanism 172
- (b) Existentialism 175
- (c) Secularism 177.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Freibach-Heifetz, Dana, author. Secular grace.
- ISBN:
- 9789004332294
- 9004332294
- OCLC:
- 965533909
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