Overcoming onto-theology : toward a postmodern Christian faith / Merold Westphal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Westphal, Merold, author.

Series:

Perspectives in continental philosophy.

Perspectives in Continental Philosophy, 1089-3938 ; 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christianity--Philosophy.

Christianity.

Postmodernism--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Postmodernism.

Metaphysics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (331 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, [New York] : Fordham University Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Overcoming Onto-theology is a stunning collection of essays by Merold Westphal, one of America’s leading continental philosophers of religion, in which Westphal carefully explores the nature and the structure of a postmodern Christian philosophy. Written with characteristic clarity and charm, Westphal offers masterful studies of Heidegger’s early lectures on Paul and Augustine, the idea of hermeneutics, Schleiermacher, Hegel, Derrida, and Nietzsche, all in the service of building his argument that postmodern thinking offers an indispensable tool for rethinking Christian faith. A must read for every student and professor of continental philosophy and the philosophy of religion, Overcoming Onto-theology is an invaluable collection that brings together in one place fourteen provocative and lucid essays by one of the most important thinkers working in American philosophy today.

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

ABBREVIATIONS

1. Overcoming Onto-theology

2. Heidegger's "Theologische" Jugendschriften

3. Hermeneutics As Epistemology

4. Appropriating Postmodernism

5. Christian Philosophers and the Copernican Revolution

6. Totality and Finitude in Schleiermacher's Hermeneutics

7. Positive Postmodernism As Radical Hermeneutics

8. Father Adam and His Feuding Sons: An Interpretation of the Hermeneutical Turn in Continental Philosophy

9. Deconstruction and Christian Cultural Theory: An Essay on Appropriation

10. Laughing at Hegel

11. Derrida As Natural Law Theorist

12. Faith As the Overcoming of Ontological Xenophobia

13. Divine Excess: The God Who Comes After

14. Nietzsche As a Theological Resource

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786612698590

9780823235483

0823235483

9780823247332

0823247333

9781282698598

1282698591

9780823221295

0823221296

9780823238057

0823238059

9780585416687

0585416680

OCLC:

727645707