Deleuze and theology / Christopher Ben Simpson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Simpson, Christopher Ben, 1973-

Series:

Philosophy and Theology

Philosophy and theology (London, England)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, French--20th century.

Philosophy, French.

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (199 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What can atheologian do with Deleuze? While using philosophy as a resource for theologyis nothing new, Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) presents a kind of limit-case forsuch a theological appropriation of philosophy: a thoroughly ""modern""philosophy that would seem to be fundamentally hostile to Christian theology-aphilosophy of atheistic immanence with an essentially chaotic vision of theworld. Nonetheless, Deleuze's philosophy can generate many potentialintersections with theology opening onto a field of configurations: a fractiousmiddle between radical Deleuzian theologies that would think throu

Contents:

Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; PART ONE Deleuze in Brief; Chapter 1 Gilles Deleuze (1925-95): biography and bibliography; Chapter 2 Deleuze's philosophical system; 2.1 Saying 'Yes' to the ocean: Affirmation and the dionysian world; 2.2 Speculative materialism: The virtual and the actual; 2.3 Schizoid ethics: Escape and affirm; PART TWO Deleuze and Theology; Chapter 3 Approaching Deleuze's theology and theological appropriations; 3.1 Deleuze and Theology?; 3.2 Deleuzian theologies: The secular trajectory; 3.3 Theological critique of deleuze: The confessional trajectory I

3.4 Theological appropriation of deleuze: The confessional trajectory IIChapter 4 The divine life I: Difference, becoming and the trinity; 4.1 Deleuze's divine difference engine; 4.2 Deleuzian theologies of life; 4.3 Virtual life and the dark pleroma; 4.4 The trinity and eternal dynamism; Chapter 5 Creation, transcendence, immanence; 5.1 Deleuze being done with the judgement of god: Immanence over transcendence; 5.2 Deleuzian theologies of immanence; 5.3 Degenerative pantheism and the moral lobster; 5.4 Creation theology: St Thomas saying 'Yes' to the ocean

Chapter 6 The human and the inhumanChapter 7 The christ of philosophers; Chapter 8 The divine life II: Salvation, affirmation and becoming-God; 8.1 Deleuze's salvation from/in the world; 8.2 Worldly spirituality and immanent liberation; 8.3 Stuck in the desert, saying 'Yes' to the ocean; 8.4 Agapeic communion, becoming-God and ecclesial assemblage; Notes; Bibliography; Works by Gilles Deleuze; Works by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari; Other works; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-283-73604-7

0-567-53023-X

OCLC:

818116937