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Selfless Love and Human Flourishing in Paul Tillich and Iris Murdoch

Author : Julia T. Meszaros
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191078352
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Selfless Love and Human Flourishing in Paul Tillich and Iris Murdoch written by Julia T. Meszaros and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age of self-affirmation and self-assertion, 'selfless love' can appear as a threat to the lover's personal well-being. This perception jars with the Biblical promise that we gain our life through losing it and therefore calls for a theological response. In conversation with the Protestant theologian Paul Tillich and the atheistic moral philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch, Selfless Love and Human Flourishing in Paul Tillich and Iris Murdoch enquires into the anthropological grounds on which selfless love can be said to build up, rather than undermine, the lover's self. It proposes that while the implausibility of selfless love was furthered by the modern deconstruction of the self, both Tillich and Murdoch utilize this very deconstruction towards explicating and restoring the link between selfless love and human flourishing. Julia T. Meszaros shows that they use the modern diagnosis of the human being's lack of a stable and independent self as manifest in Sartre's existentialism in support of an understanding of the self as relational and fallen. This leads them to view a loving orientation away from self and a surrender to the other as critical to the full flourishing of human selfhood. In arguing that Tillich and Murdoch defend the link between selfless love and human flourishing through reference to the human being's ontological selflessness, Meszaros closely engages Søren Kierkegaard's earlier attempt to keep selfless love and human flourishing in a productive, dialectical tension. She also examines the breakdown of this tension in the later figures of Anders Nygren, Simone Weil, and Jean-Paul Sartre, and addresses the pitfalls of this breakdown. Her examination concludes by arguing that the link between selfless love and human flourishing would be strengthened by a more resolute endorsement of a personal God, and of the reciprocal nature of selfless love.

Selfless Love and Human Flourishing in Paul Tillich and Iris Murdoch

Author : Julia Theresa Meszaros
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191820502
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (25 download)

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Download or read book Selfless Love and Human Flourishing in Paul Tillich and Iris Murdoch written by Julia Theresa Meszaros and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an age of self-affirmation and self-assertion, 'selfless love' often appears as a threat to the lover's personal well-being. Such a perception jars with the Biblical promise that we gain our life through losing it. It therefore calls for a theological response. In conversation with the Protestant theologian Paul Tillich and the atheistic moral philosopher and novelist Iris Murdoch, this book enquires into the anthropological grounds on which selfless love can be said to build up the lover's self.

Selfless Love and Human Flourishing in Paul Tillich and Iris Murdoch

Author : Julia Theresa Meszaros
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019876586X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Selfless Love and Human Flourishing in Paul Tillich and Iris Murdoch written by Julia Theresa Meszaros and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revision of author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oxford, 2012 under title: Selfless love and human flourishing: a theological and a secular perspective in dialogue.

Selfless Love and Human Flourishing in Paul Tillich and Iris Murdoch

Author : Julia T. Meszaros
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191078360
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Eberhard Jüngel and Existence

Author : Deborah Casewell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000385078
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Eberhard Jüngel and Existence written by Deborah Casewell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-31 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book interrogates the contemporary Lutheran theologian Eberhard Jüngel’s theological anthropology, arguing that Jüngel’s thought can provide a model for theological engagement with philosophical accounts of existence. Focusing on Jüngel’s theology of existence, the author explores the thought of philosophers, including Heidegger and Hegel, their influence on and application to his theology, and argues that Jüngel’s account of humanity should be seen as a response to atheistic existentialist accounts of existence. In showing how Jüngel’s theology is informed by and dependent on philosophical thought, this book provides a new lens on the interplay between philosophy, theology, and religion in twentieth-century German thought. It will be of particular interest to researchers in philosophy, theology, and philosophy of religion.

Iris Murdoch and the Others

Author : Paul S. Fiddes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567703371
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (677 download)

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Download or read book Iris Murdoch and the Others written by Paul S. Fiddes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 'others' examined by Fiddes are mainly those with whom Murdoch entered into explicit dialogue in her novels and philosophical writing - including Immanuel Kant, Simone Weil, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Rudolph Bultmann, Paul Tillich, Don Cupitt, Donald Mackinnon and Jacques Derrida. This 'historic' dialogue is, however, placed within a wider dialogue between literature and theology being conducted by the author, and 'others' are brought into relation with Murdoch in order to illuminate this more extensive conversation - notably the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins and the feminist philosopher Julia Kristeva. The book demonstrates that characteristic themes in Murdoch's novels and philosophy - the love of the Good, the death of the ego, illusory consolations, the death of God, the modifying of the will by 'waiting', the sublime and the beautiful, and attention to other things and persons - all take on a greater meaning when placed in the context of her life-long conversation with theology. The exploration of this context is deepened in this volume by reference to annotations and notes that Murdoch made in a number of theological books in her personal library.

Contemporary Cinema and the Philosophy of Iris Murdoch

Author : Bolton Lucy Bolton
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474416411
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Cinema and the Philosophy of Iris Murdoch written by Bolton Lucy Bolton and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-22 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iris Murdoch was not only one of post-war Britain's most celebrated and prolific novelists - she was also an influential philosopher, whose work was concerned with the question of the good and how we can see our moral worlds more clearly. Murdoch believed that paying attention to art is a way for us to become less self-centred, and this book argues that cinema is the perfect form of art to enable us to do this. Bringing together Murdoch's moral philosophy and contemporary cinema to build a dialogue about vision, ethics and love, author Lucy Bolton encourages us to view cinema as a way of studying other worlds and moral journeys, and to reflect upon their ethical significance in the world of the film and in our daily lives.

The Ethics of Attention

Author : Silvia Caprioglio Panizza
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000595927
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Ethics of Attention written by Silvia Caprioglio Panizza and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on Iris Murdoch’s philosophy to explore questions related to the importance of attention in ethics. In doing so, it also engages with Murdoch’s ideas about the existence of a moral reality, the importance of love, and the necessity but also the difficulty, for most of us, of fighting against our natural self-centred tendencies. Why is attention important to morality? This book argues that many moral failures and moral achievements can be explained by attention. Not only our actions and choices, but the possibilities we choose among, and even the meaning of what we perceive, are to a large extent determined by whether we pay attention, and what we attend to. In this way, the book argues that attention is fundamental, though often overlooked, in morality. While the book’s discussion of attention revolves primarily around Murdoch’s thought, it also engages significantly with Simone Weil, who introduced the concept of attention in a spiritual context. The book also engages with contemporary debates concerning moral perception and motivation, empirical psychology, animal ethics, and Buddhist philosophy. The Ethics of Attention will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working on Iris Murdoch, Simone Weil, ethics and moral psychology, and the philosophy of attention.

The Murdochian Mind

Author : Silvia Caprioglio Panizza
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000592626
Total Pages : 783 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Murdochian Mind written by Silvia Caprioglio Panizza and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 783 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iris Murdoch was a philosopher and novelist of extraordinary breadth and originality whose work defies simple categorisation. Her philosophical writing engages with an astonishingly wide range of figures, from Plato and Kant to Sartre and Heidegger, and her work increasingly inspires debate in ethics, aesthetics, religion, and literature. The Murdochian Mind is an outstanding reference source to the full span of Murdoch's philosophical work, comprising 37 specially commissioned chapters written by an international team of leading scholars. Divided into five clear parts, the volume covers the following areas: A guide to Murdoch's key philosophical texts, including The Sovereignty of Good and Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals. Core themes and concepts in Murdoch's philosophy, such as love, moral vision, and attention. Murdoch's engagement with the history of philosophy, including Plato, Kant, Hegel, Simone Weil, and Wittgenstein. Interdisciplinary connections with art, literature, and religion, including Judaism, Buddhism, and Christianity. Murdoch and contemporary philosophical debates, including feminism, virtue ethics, and metaethics. The application of Murdoch’s thought to applied ethics, including animal ethics, psychiatric ethics, and the environment. Although recent years have seen a blossoming of interest in Murdoch’s philosophy, The Murdochian Mind is the first volume to do justice to the incredibly rich and wide-ranging nature of her work. As such it will be of great interest to students of philosophy, especially ethics and aesthetics, as well as those in related disciplines such as literature, religion, and gender studies.

Mutual Accompaniment as Faith-Filled Living

Author : Gerard J. Ryan
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031060075
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Mutual Accompaniment as Faith-Filled Living written by Gerard J. Ryan and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-07-02 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Gerard J. Ryan examines the interrelationship between recognition theory and theology with their respective concerns for what it means to be a human. He advocates a mutual accompaniment that reformulates recognition theory within a practical and public theology. Ryan develops this interpersonal recognition through the accompaniment of vulnerable people, particularly persons with disabilities and those who suffer from mental illness. He explores three contexts that support this mutual accompaniment and the labour of recognition. These are narrativity, the stories we live out of; vulnerability, the basic human condition common to all; and participation, the inter-relationship of humanity.

Sartre and Theology

Author : Kate Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 056766452X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Sartre and Theology written by Kate Kirkpatrick and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the twentieth century's most prominent atheists. But his philosophy was informed by theological writers and themes in ways that have not previously been acknowledged. In Sartre and Theology, Kirkpatrick examines Sartre's philosophical formation and rarely discussed early work, demonstrating how, and which, theology shaped Sartre's thinking. She also shows that Sartre's philosophy - especially Being and Nothingness and Existentialism is A Humanism - contributed to several prominent twentieth-century theologies, examining Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, and Liberation theologians rebuttals and appropriations of Sartre. For philosophers, this work opens up an unmined vein of influence on Sartre's work which illuminates his conceptual divergences from the German phenomenological tradition. And for theologians, it offers insights into a theologically informed atheism which provoked responses from some of the twentieth-century's greatest theologians - an atheism from which we can still learn much today.

Theology and the University in Nineteenth-Century Germany

Author : Zachary Purvis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191086150
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Theology and the University in Nineteenth-Century Germany written by Zachary Purvis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-07-21 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theology and the University in Nineteenth-Century Germany examines the dual transformation of institutions and ideas that led to the emergence of theology as science, the paradigmatic project of modern theology associated with Friedrich Schleiermacher. Beginning with earlier educational reforms across central Europe and especially following the upheavals of the Napoleonic period, an impressive list of provocateurs, iconoclasts, and guardians of the old faith all confronted the nature of the university, the organization of knowledge, and the unity of theology's various parts, quandaries which together bore the collective name of 'theological encyclopedia'. Schleiermacher's remarkably influential programme pioneered the structure and content of the theological curriculum and laid the groundwork for theology's historicization. Zachary Purvis offers a comprehensive investigation of Schleiermacher's programme through the era's two predominant schools: speculative theology and mediating theology. Purvis highlights that the endeavour ultimately collapsed in the context of Wilhelmine Germany and the Weimar Republic, beset by the rise of religious studies, radical disciplinary specialization, a crisis of historicism, and the attacks of dialectical theology. In short, the project represented university theology par excellence. Engaging in detail with these developments, Purvis weaves the story of modern university theology into the broader tapestry of German and European intellectual culture, with periodic comparisons to other national contexts. In doing so, he Purvis presents a substantially new way to understand the relationship between theology and the university, both in nineteenth-century Germany and, indeed, beyond.

Freedom and Necessity in Modern Trinitarian Theology

Author : Brandon Gallaher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191081566
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Freedom and Necessity in Modern Trinitarian Theology written by Brandon Gallaher and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom and Necessity in Modern Trinitarian Theology examines the tension between God and the world through a constructive reading of the Trinitarian theologies and Christologies of Sergii Bulgakov (1871-1944), Karl Barth (1886-1968), and Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988). It focuses on what is called 'the problematic of divine freedom and necessity' and the response of the writers. 'Problematic' refers to God being simultaneously radically free and utterly bound to creation. God did not need to create and redeem the world in Christ. It is a contingent free gift. Yet, on the other side of a dialectic, he also has eternally determined himself to be God as Jesus Christ. He must create and redeem the world to be God as he has so determined. In this way the world is given a certain 'free necessity' by him because if there were no world then there would be no Christ. A spectrum of different concepts of freedom and necessity and a theological ideal of a balance between the same are outlined and then used to illumine the writers and to articulate a constructive response to the problematic. Brandon Gallaher shows that the classical Christian understanding of God having a non-necessary relationship to the world and divine freedom being a sheer assertion of God's will must be completely rethought. Gallaher proposes a Trinitarian, Christocentric, and cruciform vision of divine freedom. God is free as eternally self-giving, self-emptying and self-receiving love. The work concludes with a contemporary theology of divine freedom founded on divine election.

Kierkegaard's Theology of Encounter

Author : David Lappano
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198792433
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Kierkegaard's Theology of Encounter written by David Lappano and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study considers the social and political aspects of Kierkegaard's authorship, building upon work over the last couple of decades. Dr Lappano focuses on Kierkegaard's writing between 1846 and 1852, the period of Kierkegaard's more explicitly politicized writing.

George Errington and Roman Catholic Identity in Nineteenth-century England

Author : Serenhedd James
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198766394
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book George Errington and Roman Catholic Identity in Nineteenth-century England written by Serenhedd James and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the life and work of George Errington, the Victorian Archbishop of Trebizond, who was one of the most prominent figures of nineteenth-century English Roman Catholicism. Dr James provides comprehensive investigation of some of the most divisive controversies in English Catholic history.

Returning to Tillich

Author : Russell Re Manning
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311053360X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Returning to Tillich written by Russell Re Manning and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years after his death in 1965 the essays in this collection return to Paul Tillich to investigate his theology and its legacy, with a focus on contemporary British scholarship. Originating in a conference held in Oxford in 2014, the book contains 16 original contributions from a mixture of junior and more established scholars, most of whom have a connection to Britain. The contributions are diverse, but four themes emerge throughout the volume. Several essays are concerning with a characterisation of Tillich's theology. In dialogue with recent emphases on the radical Tillich, some essays suggest a more conservative estimation of Tillich's theology, rooted in the Idealist and classical Christian platonic traditions, whilst in constant engagement with changing existential situations. Secondly, and perhaps reflecting the context of religious diversity and theories of religious pluralism in Britain, many essays engage Tillich's approach to non-Christian religions. Thirdly, some essays address the importance of existentialist philosophy for Tillich, notably via an engagement with Sartre. Finally, a number of essays take up the diagnostic potential of Tillich's theology as a resource for engaging contemporary challenges.

Murdoch on Truth and Love

Author : Gary Browning
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319762168
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Murdoch on Truth and Love written by Gary Browning and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews Iris Murdoch’s thought as a whole. It surveys the breadth of her thinking, taking account of her philosophical works, her novels and her letters. It shows how she explored many aspects of experience and brought together apparently contradictory concepts such as truth and love. The volume deals with her notions of truth, love, language, morality, politics and her life. It shows how she offers a challenging provocative way of seeing things which is related to but distinct from standard forms of analytical philosophy and Continental thought. Unlike so many philosophers she does offer a philosophy to live by and unlike many novelists she has reflected deeply on the kind of novels she aimed to write. The upshot is that her novels and her philosophy can be read together productively as contributions to how we can see others and the world.