Theology and difference : the wound of reason / Walter Lowe. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lowe, Walter.

Series:

The Indiana series in the philosophy of religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theology--Methodology.

Theology.

Theodicy.

Deconstruction.

Faith and reason.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 181 p. )

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1993.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

I. Introduction: Violence and Reason. Pitfalls of Enlightenment. The Dissolving of Difference. The Memory of Suffering. Making Sense of Derrida. Tradition in Question. Contextualization. The Idealist Diamond. The Kantian Opening

II. Qualitative Difference: Barth's Epistle to the Romans. Qualitative Difference. Memory of God. The Christ Event. An Analogy of Difference? Theology and Difference: The Argument in Brief

III. Truth and Contextualization: Freud, Husserl, Derrida. Freud and the Logic of Suspicion. Kant and the Issue of Objectivity. Husserl and the Western Discovery of Objectivity. Derrida and the Deconstruction of Objectivity. Ricoeur and Theological Hermeneutics. Hermeneutics and the Idealist Diamond. The Deconstructionist Alternative. The Insistence of the Truth Question

IV. The Kantian Opening. Kant and the Sublation of Theodicy. Ontotheology and the Great Chain of Being. Plenitude and the Otherness of Time. Kant and the New Cosmology. Beyond Ontotheology. Opening the First Critique. The Coram Deo

V. The Otherness of the Ethical. Opening the Second Critique. The Wound of Reason. Imperative as Contextualization. The Return of Theodicy. Rational Existentialism. Cutting the Idealist Diamond

VI. The Ethics of Otherness. The Argument Reviewed. The A/theology of Mark C. Taylor. Barth and the Problem of Ethics. Dialectic and Repentance. Thinking through the Wound.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 165-177) and index.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

ISBN:

0-585-10478-6