Divine enticement : theological seductions / Karmen MacKendrick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacKendrick, Karmen, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophical theology.

Theology, Doctrinal.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Theology usually appears to us to be dogmatic, judgmental condescending, maybe therapeutic, or perhaps downright fantastical - but seldom enticing. 'Divine Enticement' takes as its starting point that the meanings of theological concepts are not so much logical, truth-valued propositions - affirmative or negative - as they are provocations and evocations. Thus it argues for the seductiveness of both theology and its subject - for, in fact, infinite seduction and enticement as the very sense of theological query.

Contents:

Introduction: from the presence to the sign

Seductive epistemology: thinking with assent

Reading rites: sacraments and the community of signs

Because being here is so much: ethics as the artifice of attention

Prayer: addressing the name

Take and read: Scripture and the enticement of meaning

In place of a conclusion: thoughts on a prior possible.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-300) and index.

ISBN:

0-8232-4293-5

0-8232-4633-7

0-8232-4292-7

OCLC:

859687210