The wholesale rejection of metaphysics today has become the test of the postmodern. In this groundbreaking volume Oliver Davies argues for a renewal of metaphysics, as the language of createdness, based not in a return to outmoded concepts of essence but in a dynamic new understanding of ontology as narrative and performance. This repairing of the Western metaphysical tradition is grounded both in the divine self-naming in Exodus — which, for the rabbis, identified God's presence in the world with God's compassionate acts — and in the compassionate resistance of Etty Hillesum and Edith Stein to the violence of the Holocaust. Building on a new metaphysics of compassion that is attentive to the histories of the contemporary world, Davies offers a renewed systematic theology of divine speech and relation, focused in Jesus Christ, who, as the triadic "Word" of God, speaks creatively at the heart of human culture and action and who, as the redeeming "Compassion" of God, regenerates the world.
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The notion of being has never been contested as it is today; once again, metaphysics has become, like Hecuba, an exile and an indigent. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
kenotic ontology, infinite personhood, outer transcendence, theological reduction, infinite kenosis, trinitarian speech, mutual grounding, inner transcendence, transcendental anthropology, divine kenosis, personal knowing, fundamental theology, compassionate self, empirical self, compassionate acts, infinite relation, divine speech, analogia entis, bare life Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Edith Stein, Jesus Christ, Holy Spirit, Old Testament, David Ford, Thomas Aquinas, New Testament, Paul Ricoeur, The Death of Being, Divine Pragmatics, Etty Hillesum, New Metaphysics, Catholic Church, Middle Ages, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, The Vocation of Man, Karl Rahner, Wallace Stevens, Adam Smith, Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Friedrich Nietzsche, God of Abraham, Immanuel Kant, Jacques Derrida New!
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The notion of being has never been contested as it is today; once again, metaphysics has become, like Hecuba, an exile and an indigent. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
kenotic ontology, infinite personhood, outer transcendence, theological reduction, infinite kenosis, trinitarian speech, mutual grounding, inner transcendence, transcendental anthropology, divine kenosis, personal knowing, fundamental theology, compassionate self, empirical self, compassionate acts, infinite relation, divine speech, analogia entis, bare life Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Edith Stein, Jesus Christ, Holy Spirit, Old Testament, David Ford, Thomas Aquinas, New Testament, Paul Ricoeur, The Death of Being, Divine Pragmatics, Etty Hillesum, New Metaphysics, Catholic Church, Middle Ages, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, The Vocation of Man, Karl Rahner, Wallace Stevens, Adam Smith, Concluding Unscientific Postscript, Friedrich Nietzsche, God of Abraham, Immanuel Kant, Jacques Derrida New!
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- Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority (Philosophical Series) by Emmanuel Levinas on 10 pages
- Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant on 4 pages
- Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One Is; Revised Edition (Penguin Classics) by Friedrich Nietzsche on 4 pages
- On the Name (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics) by Jacques Derrida on 4 pages
- Hegel's Science of Logic by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel on 4 pages
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- The Ascetic Self: Subjectivity, Memory and Tradition by Gavin Flood on page 63, and page 256
- Viewing New Creations with Anabaptist Eyes: Ethics of Biotechnology by Roman J. Miller on page 105, and page 147
- Keeping God's Silence: Towards a Theological Ethics of Communication (Challenges in Contemporary Theology) by Rachel Muers on page 105, and Back Matter
- Jesus and the Gospel Movement: Not Afraid to Be Partners (ERIC VOEGELIN INST SERIES) by William M. Thompson-Uberuaga in Back Matter
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