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Owen Barfield: Philosophy, Poetry, and Theology (Veritas Book 20) by [Michael Vincent Di Fuccia, Owen A. Barfield]

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In this book Michael Di Fuccia examines the theological import of Owen Barfield's poetic philosophy. He argues that philosophies of immanence fail to account for creativity, as is evident in the false shuttling between modernity's active construal and postmodernity's passive construal of subjectivity. In both extremes subjectivity actually dissolves, divesting one of any creative integrity. Di Fuccia shows how in Barfield's scheme the creative subject appears instead to inhabit a middle or medial realm, which upholds one's creative integrity. It is in this way that Barfield's poetic philosophy gestures toward a theological vision of poiēsis proper, wherein creativity is envisaged as neither purely passive nor purely active, but middle. Creativity, thus, is not immanent but mediated, a participation in God's primordial poiēsis.

"Michael Di Fuccia has produced the most major study of Owen Barfield so far. He shows just why the future of theology may belong to Barfield's seemingly wilder, but more metaphysically penetrating, style of orthodoxy. Barfield realized early, that in order to believe now, one must disbelieve much of what passes today as accepted secular wisdom. The alternative is some version of theistic positivism, credible only to the emotionally immature. I thoroughly recommend this new book to all sensitive and reflective readers."
--John Milbank, author of Theology and Social Theory

Michael Vincent Di Fuccia (PhD University of Nottingham) is a lecturer in philosophical and systematic theology.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01N3U32N1
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Cascade Books, an Imprint of Wipf and Stock Publishers (November 8, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 8, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1539 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 294 pages

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Michael Tsarion

DEVASTATING & REVEALING: A NEW VISIONING OF MAN

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A long awaited definitive account of the ideas of English sage Owen Barfield, the forgotten genius who outhought C. S, Lewis, Bertrand Russell, J. L. Austin, Martin Heidegger, the Postmoderns, Cultural Marxists, and whomever and whatever else you've got to throw into the ring.

Barfield will one day be recognized as one of the foremost philosophers not only of the 20th century, but of all time. It is actually a scandal that he is so little known by so many.

For lovers of C. S. Lewis and Professor Tolkien, the contributions to their fictional works of Barfield will be of great interest. C. S. Lewis dedicated The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe to Barfield's daughter. Professor Tolkien openly admitted that the concept of Middle Earth would not have come to him without the work of Barfield. Barfield, Lewis, Tolkien, and others made up the intellectual group at Oxford known as the "Inklings." When all is said and done, and despite the universal popularity of Professors Lewis and Tolkien, it was Owen Barfield's who thought reverberated throughout their works, to remain relevant for all time.

The author does justice to Barfield's critiques of Heidegger and previous philosophical traditions.

I highly recommend "Saving the Appearances," and all other works by and on Owen Barfield.

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