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Irony and Religious Belief

Author : Gregory L. Reece
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161477799
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (777 download)

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Download or read book Irony and Religious Belief written by Gregory L. Reece and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2002 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of irony is difficult to pin down, difficult to capture. This book is a critical examination of how Soren Kierkegaard and the pragmatist Richard Rorty approach the complex subject of irony. Gregory L. Reece traces the development of the philosophical concept of irony from Socrates to Hegel, Schlegel, Kierkegaard and Rorty, while addressing the very question that is central for both Kierkegaard and Rorty, the question of the relationship of ironic philosophy to an ironic life. Must ironic philosophy result in what Kierkegaard calls infinite, absolute negativity or in what Rorty describes as doubt and meta-stability? Gregory L. Reece argues that the answer is no, and that the belief that it must is based on an important philosophical mistake which in different forms is committed by both the early Kierkegaard and by Rorty. The insights of these philosophers, as well as those developed by Wittgenstein, are used to develop the beginning of an ironic philosophy of religion. Specifically, this work follows Kierkegaard and pursues these questions with special concern for the relation of ironic philosophy to religious belief.

Divine Irony

Author : Glenn Stanfield Holland
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781575910321
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Divine Irony written by Glenn Stanfield Holland and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ultimately, irony appears to be a term with no definitive meaning, the product of a critical enterprise that over time identified particular literary devices and perspectives a irony."--BOOK JACKET.

The Life of Irony and the Ethics of Belief

Author : David Wisdo
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791412213
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book The Life of Irony and the Ethics of Belief written by David Wisdo and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wisdo concludes that the fragility of religious belief is due to the unavoidable irony intrinsic to the religious life.

Ironies of Faith

Author : Anthony Esolen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1684516234
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (845 download)

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Download or read book Ironies of Faith written by Anthony Esolen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ironies of Faith, celebrated Dante scholar and translator Anthony Esolen provides a profound meditation upon the use and place of irony in Christian art and in the Christian life. Beginning with an extended analysis of irony as an essentially dramatic device, Esolen explores those manifestations of irony that appear prominently in Christian thinking and art: ironies of time (for Christians believe in divine Providence, but live in a world whose moments pass away); ironies of power (for Christians believe in an almighty God who took on human flesh, and whose "weakness" is stronger than our greatest enemy, death); ironies of love (for man seldom knows whom to love, or how, or even whom it is that in the depths of his heart he loves best); and the figure of the Child (for Christians ever hear the warning voice of their Savior, who says that unless we become like unto one of these little ones, we shall not enter the Kingdom of God). Esolen's finely wrought study draws from Augustine, Dante, Shakespeare, Tolkien, Mauriac, Milton Herbert, Hopkins, and Dostoyevsky, among others, including the anonymous author of the medieval poem Pearl. Such authors, Anthony Esolen believes, teach us that the last laugh is on the world, because that grim old world, taking itself so seriously that even its laughter is a sneer, will finally - despite its proud resistance - be redeemed. That is the ultimate irony of faith. Readers who treasure the Christian literary tradition should not miss this illuminating book.

Images of Faith

Author : William F. Lynch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Images of Faith written by William F. Lynch and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kierkegaard and the Art of Irony

Author : Roy Martinez
Publisher : Prometheus Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Kierkegaard and the Art of Irony written by Roy Martinez and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb

Irony of Theology and the Nature of Religious Thought

Author : Donald Wiebe
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773564098
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Irony of Theology and the Nature of Religious Thought written by Donald Wiebe and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1990-12-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a careful re-evaluation of the works of Lévy-Bruhl, Wiebe establishes the coherence of Lévy-Bruhl's classic distinction between primitive, or mythopoeic, and scientific thought, maintaining that religious thinking is mythopoeic in nature while theology -- which thinks about religion -- is related to modern Western scientific thinking. The pre-Socratic philosophers, Wiebe shows, developed a form of rational thought radically different from the religious-mythopoeic thought that preceded it. Although Plato was concerned with recovery of the pre-philosophic wisdom of ancient Greece, he attempted this within a rational, philosophic structure. Wiebe argues that Christian thought, originally mythopoeic, changed rapidly under the influence of Hellenistic culture, and that the Platonization of Christianity introduced an element of philosophic thinking which would eventually undermine its mythopoeic essence. In clarifying the nature of religious thought and its relation to religion, Wiebe provides a sound basis for the development of a general theory of religion. While of particular interest to philosophers, theologians, and students and scholars of the study of religion, Wiebe's study draws upon sources as diverse as philosophy, history, anthropology, and sociology and will therefore interest anyone involved in these disciplines as well.

Humour and Irony in the New Testament

Author : Jakob Jónsson
Publisher : Brill Archive
ISBN 13 : 9789004075009
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Humour and Irony in the New Testament written by Jakob Jónsson and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1985 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Modern American Religion, Volume 1

Author : Martin E. Marty
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226508948
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Modern American Religion, Volume 1 written by Martin E. Marty and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997-06-21 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second volume of two tracing the history of 20th-century American religion, Martin E. Marty tells the story of how America has survived religious disturbances and culturally prospered from them.

Hume on God

Author : Timothy S. Yoder
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441153659
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Hume on God written by Timothy S. Yoder and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-10-27 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Hume, one of the most influential philosophers to have written in the English language, is widely known as a skeptic and an empiricist. He is famous for raising questions about the existence of things for which there is insufficient empirical evidence, such as souls, the self, miracles, and, perhaps most importantly, God. Despite this reputation, however, Hume's works contain frequent references to a deity, and one searches in vain to find a positive assertion of atheism. This book proposes a different reading of Hume on God, in which Hume is seen as proposing a 'genuine theism'. Yoder investigates Hume's use of irony and his relationship with the Deists of his era and offers a thorough re-examination of Hume's writings on religion. Yoder concludes that, despite Hume's criticisms of the church, religiously-based ethics and the belief in miracles, he stops well short of a rejection of the existence of God. Always a creative thinker, Hume carves out a unique conception of the divine being.

Rorty and Kierkegaard on Irony and Moral Commitment

Author : B. Frazier
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230601928
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Rorty and Kierkegaard on Irony and Moral Commitment written by B. Frazier and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-11-27 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to clarify the concept of irony and its relation to moral commitment. Frazier provides a discussion of the contrasting accounts of Richard Rorty and Søren Kierkegaard. He argues that, while Rorty's position is much more defensible and thoughtful than his detractors acknowledge, it is surprisingly more parochial than Kierkegaard's.

Irony in the Matthean Passion Narrative

Author : InHee C. Berg
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 1451484321
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Irony in the Matthean Passion Narrative written by InHee C. Berg and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2014-05-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irony (as used here) is a rhetorical and literary device for revealing “what is hidden behind what is seen.” It thus offers the reader a superior understanding by means of the distinction between reality and its shadow. The book provides a history of different definitions of irony, from Aristophanes to Booth; discusses the constitutive formal elements of irony and the functions of irony; then studies particular aspects of the Matthean Passion Narrative that require the reader to recognize a deeper truth beneath the surface of the narrative.

Between Irony and Witness

Author : Joel D. S. Rasmussen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780567028419
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (284 download)

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Download or read book Between Irony and Witness written by Joel D. S. Rasmussen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2005-09-16 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a novel interpretation of the relationship between religious concern and artistic creativity in the works of the self-styled "Christian poet and thinker" Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855). Although Kierkegaard articulated neither a "Christology" in the sense that the term has for systematic theology, nor a generic "theory of poetry" in the sense that phrase has for literary criticism, this study makes the case that Kierkegaard's writings nevertheless do advance a "Christomorphic poetics," a tertium quid that resists conventional distinctions between theology and literature. Arguing that Kierkegaard's poetics takes shape in conversation with many of the major themes of early German Romanticism (irony, imaginative creativity, paradox, the relativization of imitation [mimesis], and erotic love), this book offers a fresh appreciation of the depth of Kierkegaard's engagement with Romanticism, and of the contours of his alternative to that literary movement.

Søren Kierkegaard

Author : Jon Bartley Stewart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198747705
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Søren Kierkegaard written by Jon Bartley Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soren Kierkegaard: Subjectivity, Irony, and the Crisis of Modernity examines the thought of Soren Kierkegaard, a unique figure, who has inspired, provoked, fascinated, and irritated people ever since he walked the streets of Copenhagen. At the end of his life, Kierkegaard said that the onlymodel he had for his work was the Greek philosopher Socrates. This work takes this statement as its point of departure. Jon Stewart explores what Kierkegaard meant by this and to show how different aspects of his writing and argumentative strategy can be traced back to Socrates. The main focus isThe Concept of Irony, which is a key text at the beginning of Kierkegaard's literary career. Although it was an early work, it nevertheless played a determining role in his later development and writings. Indeed, it can be said that it laid the groundwork for much of what would appear in his laterfamous books such as Either/Or and Fear and Trembling.

Wagering on an Ironic God

Author : Thomas S. Hibbs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781481306386
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book Wagering on an Ironic God written by Thomas S. Hibbs and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pascal thus wagers all on the irony of a God who both startles and astonishes wisdom's true lovers.

The Irony of American History

Author : Reinhold Niebuhr
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226583996
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (265 download)

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Download or read book The Irony of American History written by Reinhold Niebuhr and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-01-22 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Niebuhr] is one of my favorite philosophers. I take away [from his works] the compelling idea that there’s serious evil in the world, and hardship and pain. And we should be humble and modest in our belief we can eliminate those things. But we shouldn’t use that as an excuse for cynicism and inaction. I take away . . . the sense we have to make these efforts knowing they are hard.”—President Barack Obama Forged during the tumultuous but triumphant postwar years when America came of age as a world power, The Irony of American History is more relevant now than ever before. Cited by politicians as diverse as Hillary Clinton and John McCain, Niebuhr’s masterpiece on the incongruity between personal ideals and political reality is both an indictment of American moral complacency and a warning against the arrogance of virtue. Impassioned, eloquent, and deeply perceptive, Niebuhr’s wisdom will cause readers to rethink their assumptions about right and wrong, war and peace. “The supreme American theologian of the twentieth century.”—Arthur Schlesinger Jr., New York Times “Niebuhr is important for the left today precisely because he warned about America’s tendency—including the left’s tendency—to do bad things in the name of idealism. His thought offers a much better understanding of where the Bush administration went wrong in Iraq.”—Kevin Mattson, The Good Society “Irony provides the master key to understanding the myths and delusions that underpin American statecraft. . . . The most important book ever written on US foreign policy.”—Andrew J. Bacevich, from the Introduction

Prometheus Rebound

Author : Joseph C. McLelland
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 0889206961
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Prometheus Rebound written by Joseph C. McLelland and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 1989-01-13 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern atheism is a further act in the ancient drama of Prometheus vs Zeus. This book argues that the antagonism is false, as proved by the "irony": in which atheism turns into antitheism, transferring divine qualities to Humanity. The drama is framed by the "classicla dilemma," a conflict of wills: Tyrant and Rebel. The Unbinding of Prometheus is traced through Western history, to the Enlightenment "death of God," both speculative (Hegel) and practical (Marx). Finally, four types of "idols" are examined, in which Prometheus is rebound: Freud's Oedipus, Nietzsche's Dionysus, Camus' Sisyphus and Sartre's Orestes. The revision of both theism and atheism demands re-casting Zeus and Prometheus, breaking the impasse of heteronomy/autonomy and omnipotence/free will. Only thus may we affirm Humanity without denying God.