Reason, Revelation, and Metaphysics

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ISBN 13 : 9780813233529
Total Pages : 316 pages
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Book Synopsis Reason, Revelation, and Metaphysics by : Montague Brown

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Reason Fulfilled by Revelation

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Publisher : CUA Press
ISBN 13 : 0813217210
Total Pages : 329 pages
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Book Synopsis Reason Fulfilled by Revelation by : Gregory B. Sadler

Download or read book Reason Fulfilled by Revelation written by Gregory B. Sadler and published by CUA Press. This book was released on 2011-03-16 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of previously untranslated documents from the French debates about Christian philosophy provides a long-needed complement to available English-language literature on the subject.

Reason, Revelation, and Metaphysics

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Publisher : Catholic University of America Press
ISBN 13 : 0813233518
Total Pages : 329 pages
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Book Synopsis Reason, Revelation, and Metaphysics by : Montague Brown

Download or read book Reason, Revelation, and Metaphysics written by Montague Brown and published by Catholic University of America Press. This book was released on 2020-11-06 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Any realist metaphysics must include an integrated account of the transcendentals and the analogy of being, for an adequate metaphysics must be about everything, and all things share in some key metaphysical characteristic—being, unity, truth, goodness, and beauty. However, they do not share in them in exactly the same way. Therefore, there is need to explain the transcendental characteristics in an analogical way. By using the phrase “transcendental analogies,” Reason, Revelation and Metaphysics claims that there are analogies of unity, truth, goodness, and beauty, which are related to, but irreducible to, the analogy of being. As this book is a systematic study of the topic, theoretical reason has primacy in the project and metaphysics is given pride of place. But reason is practical and aesthetic as well; that is, our consciences urge us to seek what is good, and we are delighted by what is beautiful. Although goodness and beauty are not reducible to truth, they must be included in any adequate metaphysical account, for metaphysics looks to explain everything. Although metaphysics is traditionally thought to be a philosophical project involving ontology and natural theology, Montague Brown argues that an adequate metaphysics must ultimately be theological, including within its scope the truths of revelation. Philosophical reason’s examination of the transcendental analogies raises questions that it cannot answer. We experience a world of many beings, truths, goods, and beauties. Recognizing that these many instances have something in common, we affirm a transcendent instance of each (traditionally called God). However, although we know that a transcendent instance exists, we do not know its nature: therefore, we cannot say how it is related to the other instances. If we try to apply this transcendent instance as the prime analogate to shed light on the other analogates, we must fail, for the abstractness and universality of the transcendent instance can add nothing to our understanding of the particular instances. Wanting to know how the many exist and are related, philosophical reason finds no way forward and recognizes its need for help. It is the thesis of this book that reason finds this help only in the revelation of the God’s covenantal relation with the world. The first principle of all things—most perfectly revealed in Jesus Christ, perfect God and perfect man—is really and freely related to us. Only by accepting this revealed prime analogate can the transcendental analogies bear fruit in our ongoing quest for understanding.

The Metaphysics of Mysticism: St. John of the Cross

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ISBN 13 : 9781980898597
Total Pages : 651 pages
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Book Synopsis The Metaphysics of Mysticism: St. John of the Cross by : Geoffrey Mondello

Download or read book The Metaphysics of Mysticism: St. John of the Cross written by Geoffrey Mondello and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-21 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mysticism is a phenomenon fraught with nuances, both linguistic and metaphysical. The Metaphysics, consequently, as a philosophic work, presumes to address issues of a nature less than congenial to the universe of ordinary discourse. Philosophy, to be sure, demands a rigorous language, a syntax, if you will, that is subtly antagonistic to the fluid and sometimes extremely volatile concepts intrinsic to the phenomenon of the mystical experience. The austere language that philosophy arrogates to itself is sometimes too rigid a probe to uncover, reveal, the subtle and often delicate complexities that inevitably arise in a careful examination of mysticism; hence a sometimes involuted terminology will be encountered in our fragile attempt to render linguistic what merely verges on becoming intelligible. I have, to the best of my ability, limited this proliferation of abstruse language applied to an already abstruse subject. I have attempted to keep neologisms to a minimal, but have not blenched from employing them when my own linguistic resources are exhausted. Notwithstanding the difficulties inevitably encountered in language, I have endeavored in this work not simply to clarify what is obscure, but to address what is unique and compelling in this type of experience, an experience that has challenged philosophy for something more than a parenthetical account, an account, more often than not, much too eager to either dismiss this phenomenon, or to relegate it to psychology through its own failure to provide it with an adequate epistemological framework. Philosophy, in a word, has not yet coherently responded to this challenge. I am not satisfied that I have done so to the extent required, and many readers will no doubt concur with my assessment. Nevertheless it is a beginning of sorts, and if it provokes more questions than it answers it will at least have served to rehabilitate the philosophical arrogance that has been too ready to dismiss what it finds uncongenial. Hence the impetus of this work. But why St. John of the Cross? Why not Eckhardt, Gerson, or Tauler? Even the briefest historical survey of the great Western Christian Mystics offers, especially in the way of speculative mysticism, a wide variety of other and perhaps better known candidates. The reason that I have chosen St. John is simply this: the works of St. John of the Cross, particularly the Ascent of Mount Carmel and The Dark Night of the Soul, stand, I think, as the culmination of the Western tradition of mysticism. On the other hand, it is equally important to the reader to understand what this book is not. This book is not a compendium. While it carefully attempts to chronologically accompany the text where possible, it does not blench from a departure where an examination of concurrent issues is warranted. Some will undoubtedly find this vexing. And while it adverts to the Mystical Tradition in general, a tradition out of which the thought of St. John very clearly emerges, it does not presume to exhaustively treat of the many notable figures who have contributed to this long-standing tradition. Deidre Carabine's "The Unknown God: Negative Theology in the Platonic Tradition: Plato to Eriugena", I suggest, would be much more suitable to this purpose. The goal of this book is unabashedly epistemological. Neither do I presume the reader to be intimately acquainted with Thomism as such, from which many of the metaphysical doctrines articulated by St. John unquestionably derive. For the sake of clarity, and the convenience of the reader, I have endeavored to reiterate them when necessary, providing pertinent documentation should the reader wish to explore the issue further. As dearly as I wish this work to be all things to all people, I have settled for the more modest goal of providing epistemological perspective on the sometimes fluid, sometimes volatile, but always paradoxical issues that mysticism perpetually engenders.

Godsends

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Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268201595
Total Pages : 415 pages
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Download or read book Godsends written by William Desmond and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Godsends is William Desmond’s newest addition to his masterwork on the borderlines between philosophy and theology. For many years, William Desmond has been patiently constructing a philosophical project—replete with its own terminology, idiom, grammar, dialectic, and its metaxological transformation—in an attempt to reopen certain boundaries: between metaphysics and phenomenology, between philosophy of religion and philosophical theology, between the apocalyptic and the speculative, and between religious passion and systematic reasoning. In Godsends, Desmond’s newest addition to his ambitious masterwork, he presents an original reflection on what he calls the “companioning” of philosophy and religion. Throughout the book, he follows an itinerary that has something of an Augustinian likeness: from the exterior to the interior, from the inferior to the superior. The stations along the way include a grappling with the default atheism prevalent in contemporary intellectual culture; an exploration of the middle space, the metaxu between the finite and the infinite; a dwelling with solitudes as thresholds between selving and the sacred; a meditation on idiot wisdom and transcendence in an East-West perspective; an exploration of the different stresses in the mysticisms of Aurobindo and the Arnhem Mystical Sermons; a dream monologue of autonomy, a suite of Kantian and post-Kantian variations on the story of the prodigal son; a meditation on the beatitudes as exceeding virtue, in light of Aquinas’s understanding; and culminating in an exploration of Godsends as telling us something significant about the surprise of revelation in word, idea, and story. Godsends is written for thoughtful persons and scholars perplexed about the place of religion in our time and hopeful for some illuminating companionship from relevant philosophers. It will also interest students of philosophy and religion, especially philosophical theology and philosophical metaphysics.

Revelation, Reason and Reality

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Publisher : Peeters Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9789042919297
Total Pages : 220 pages
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Book Synopsis Revelation, Reason and Reality by : Joris Geldhof

Download or read book Revelation, Reason and Reality written by Joris Geldhof and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study provides an in-depth analysis of the relationship between modernity and Christianity. The author argues that the notion of revelation is eminently reasonable and indissolubly connected with being and reality. He takes Jaspers' philosophy of religion as representative of the 'classical' modern critique and gives it its due. He then takes a step backward, so to speak, and by means of a consideration of the history of ideas, seeks to rehabilitate the Christian understanding of revelation. To do this, he draws upon Schelling's remarkable philosophy of revelation and Baader's much less familiar speculative dogmatics. However, this study is much more than a profound philosophical and theological account of the thought of Jaspers, Schelling and Baader. It is above all an eloquent defence of the plausibility and intelligibility of what Christians have always believed. In fact, the author makes a compelling case for the claim that revelation is 'that without which Christianity cannot be thought'.

Reason & Revelation

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Total Pages : 300 pages
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Book Synopsis Reason & Revelation by : John Richardson Illingworth

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Christian August Crusius (1715–1775)

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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110647567
Total Pages : 444 pages
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Book Synopsis Christian August Crusius (1715–1775) by : Frank Grunert

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Philosophy and Revelation

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Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
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Book Synopsis Philosophy and Revelation by : Vittorio Possenti

Download or read book Philosophy and Revelation written by Vittorio Possenti and published by Ashgate Publishing. This book was released on 2001 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The encyclical Fidel et Ratio, dealing with faith and reason and their specific catholocity, may well turn out to be the most important document of the modern Catholic Church on the subject announced in its title and on philosophy understood as a mirror of peoples' cultures.

The Experience of God

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009121111
Total Pages : 237 pages
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Book Synopsis The Experience of God by : Robyn Horner

Download or read book The Experience of God written by Robyn Horner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-20 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Belief and credal commitment sometimes seem to make less and less sense in the West. A kind of 'cultural amnesia' has taken hold, where formal religious adherence begins to seem almost unthinkable. This is especially so for the idea of divine revelation. Robyn Horner argues this means we need to re-evaluate how theology proceeds, focusing not so much on beliefs but on experience. Exploring ways in which the experiential might open human beings up to divine possibility, the author turns to phenomenology (especially in the French philosophical tradition) because it seeks to examine unrestrictedly what is given through involved encounter. Bringing phenomenology and poststructuralism together, Horner develops the idea of revelation as an 'event' wherein God interrupts and exceeds human experience, affecting and transforming it. This striking concept, named but largely unexplored by theology, articulates a notion of supernatural revelation which now starts to appear both coherent and plausible.

Kant, God and Metaphysics

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351395815
Total Pages : 444 pages
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Book Synopsis Kant, God and Metaphysics by : Edward Kanterian

Download or read book Kant, God and Metaphysics written by Edward Kanterian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kant is widely acknowledged as the greatest philosopher of modern times. He undertook his famous critical turn to save human freedom and morality from the challenge of determinism and materialism. Intertwined with his metaphysical interests, however, he also had theological commitments, which have received insufficient attention. He believed that man is a fallen creature and in need of ‘redemption’. He intended to provide a fortress protecting religious faith from the failure of rationalist metaphysics, from the atheistic strands of the Enlightenment, from the new mathematical science of nature, and from the dilemmas of Christian theology itself. Kant was an epistemologist, a philosopher of mind, a metaphysician of experience, an ethicist and a philosopher of religion. But all this was sustained by his religious faith. This book aims to recover the focal point and inner contradictions of his thought, the ‘secret thorn’ of his metaphysics (as Heidegger once put it). It first locates Kant in the tradition of reflection on the human weakness from Luther to Hume, and then engages in a critical, but charitable, manner with Kant’s entire pre-critical work, including his posthumous fragments. Special attention is given to The Only Possible Ground (1763), one of the most difficult, interesting and underestimated of Kant’s works. The present book takes its cue from an older approach to Kant, but also engages with recent Anglophone and continental scholarship, and deploys modern analytical tools to make sense of Kant. What emerges is an innovative and thought-provoking interpretation of Kant’s metaphysics, set against the background of forgotten religious aspects of European philosophy.

Revelation

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ISBN 13 : 9781542891189
Total Pages : 134 pages
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Book Synopsis Revelation by : James R. D. Yeaw

Download or read book Revelation written by James R. D. Yeaw and published by . This book was released on 2017-02 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A few years ago Ed Raybel developed a set of lessons for the ministerial education program of the Unity School of Christianity. These lessons were radically different than the usual story of doom and gloom based on the work of John Nelson Darby in the 19th century. Revelation was never meant to be a prophecy of the end of the world, but is, rather, an allegory of living the spiritual life, which all people in all times can benefit from. According to this allegory, the return of Jesus and the raising of saints to meet him "in the air" in the "rapture," is the Christ becoming alive in those who have been "born again" of spirit, and their meeting the Christ "in spirit."The lessons discussed these, and many other fascinating interpretations, brings the Book of Revelation alive for you, for me, and for all humanity. Re-edited, with additional material added, you can now discover the alternative meaning of these facinating visions of John.

The New Metaphysics

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Total Pages : 232 pages
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Book Synopsis The New Metaphysics by : Frank Sewall

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Heaven Is Not the Last Stop

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Publisher : Sheila Keene-Lund
ISBN 13 : 0981503802
Total Pages : 514 pages
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Book Synopsis Heaven Is Not the Last Stop by : Sheila Keene-Lund

Download or read book Heaven Is Not the Last Stop written by Sheila Keene-Lund and published by Sheila Keene-Lund. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heaven Is Not the Last Stop by Sheila Keene-Lund is the first book to attempt to reconcile the cutting edge of today's metaphysics, history, theology, and cosmology with the unprecedented teachings of The Urantia Book, a 2,097-page text claiming to be a planetary revelation. Keene-Lund addresses this formidable challenge in four sections: The first three address humanity's origin, history, and destiny; her fourth section builds upon the universal and inspiring worldview that results from her research, and offers readers an advanced framework for living a life of love and service.

A Discourse Concerning the Being and Attributes of God, the Obligations of Natural Religion, and the Truth and Certainty of the Christian Revelation

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Publisher : Arkose Press
ISBN 13 : 9781345865363
Total Pages : 588 pages
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Book Synopsis A Discourse Concerning the Being and Attributes of God, the Obligations of Natural Religion, and the Truth and Certainty of the Christian Revelation by : Samuel Clarke

Download or read book A Discourse Concerning the Being and Attributes of God, the Obligations of Natural Religion, and the Truth and Certainty of the Christian Revelation written by Samuel Clarke and published by Arkose Press. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Reason and Revelation in the Middle Ages

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Publisher : New York : C. Scribner's Sons
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Total Pages : 136 pages
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Book Synopsis Reason and Revelation in the Middle Ages by : Etienne Gilson

Download or read book Reason and Revelation in the Middle Ages written by Etienne Gilson and published by New York : C. Scribner's Sons. This book was released on 1938 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Etienne Gilson, French historian and philosopher, was born in 1884. Member of the French Academy and Director of the Institute of Medieval Studies at Toronto, he is the author of, among many brilliant works, The Spirit of Medieval Philosophy and The Unity of Philosophical Experience.

Philosophy & Religion

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Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1546252703
Total Pages : 86 pages
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Book Synopsis Philosophy & Religion by : Jonathan Kathenge PhD MBA.

Download or read book Philosophy & Religion written by Jonathan Kathenge PhD MBA. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-07-25 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is divided into three parts: Part one deals with introduction to Philosophy, covering primarily ancient historical period which deals with Cosmological questions leading to the birth of Metaphysics as a branch of Philosophy. Part two deals with African philosophy taking into consideration its subject matter from Anthropological and Theological literature. Part three delves into Religious discussion on Sacred Scripture as the main subject matter, covering such thematic issues as; Revelation, Inspiration, Hermeneutics, Sources and Canonicity.