Fragile Finitude

Fragile Finitude
Title Fragile Finitude PDF eBook
Author Michael Fishbane
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 199
Release 2021-04-20
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 022676415X

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"In Fragile Finitude, the long-awaited follow-up to Sacred Attunement(2008), Fishbane clears new ground for theological experience and its expressions through a novel reinterpretation of the Book of Job. His reinterpretation is based on the traditional four types of Jewish Scriptural exegesis: the contextual plain sense; the rabbinic legal and theological sense; the figural philosophical and spiritual sense; and the symbolic mystical sense. The first focuses on worldly experience; the second on communal forms of life and thought in the rabbinic tradition; the third on personal development; and the fourth on transcendent and cosmic orientations. Through these four modes, Fishbane manages to transform Jewish theology from within, at once reinvigorating a long tradition and moving beyond it. What he offers is nothing short of a way to reorient our lives in relation to the Divine and our fellow humans"--

The Hardened Heart and Tragic Finitude

The Hardened Heart and Tragic Finitude
Title The Hardened Heart and Tragic Finitude PDF eBook
Author Dan O. Via
Publisher Wipf and Stock Publishers
Pages 259
Release 2012-11-05
Genre Religion
ISBN 1610974026

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This book has two main theses. First, for the biblical/Christian doctrine of sin the root of the human problem is hardness of heart--the corruption of the core self, of the seat of understanding and will. On the other hand, for an important strand of Greek tragedy the root of human harm-doing is the nonculpable blindness and anxiety of finitude that despite the initial nonculpability lead to evil and suffering. The Hardened Heart shows that these two different interpretations of human existence are amenable to a degree of synthesis that leads to this conclusion: hardness of heart and our ordinary finitude together collude to cause sin in its fullness. The second thesis of this volume is that exegetical studies disclose a deconstructive strand in certain biblical texts that represents the finite world that God created as a source of distress and harm-doing in something like the tragic sense. This subdominant deconstructive position challenges the dominant biblical vision, in which the creation came forth from God's creative word as good without qualification.

Fragile Finitude

Fragile Finitude
Title Fragile Finitude PDF eBook
Author Michael Fishbane
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 199
Release 2021-04-20
Genre Religion
ISBN 022676429X

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The world we engage with is a vibrant collage brought to consciousness by language and our creative imagination. It is through the symbolic forms of language that the human world of value is revealed—this is where religious scholar Michael Fishbane dwells in his latest contribution to Jewish thought. In Fragile Finitude, Fishbane clears new ground for a theological life through a novel reinterpretation of the Book of Job. On this basis, he offers a contemporary engagement with the four classical types of Jewish Scriptural exegesis. The first focuses on worldly experience, the second on communal forms of practice and thought in the rabbinical tradition, the third on personal development, and the fourth on transcendent, cosmic orientations. Through these four modes, Fishbane manages to transform Jewish theology from within, at once reinvigorating a long tradition and moving beyond it. What he offers is nothing short of a way to reorient our lives in relation to the divine and our fellow humans. Written from within the Jewish tradition, Fragile Finitude is intended for readers across the religious spectrum.

Moral Powers, Fragile Beliefs

Moral Powers, Fragile Beliefs
Title Moral Powers, Fragile Beliefs PDF eBook
Author Joseph Carlisle
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Pages 315
Release 2011-02-17
Genre Religion
ISBN 1441117598

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Less Than Nothing

Less Than Nothing
Title Less Than Nothing PDF eBook
Author Slavoj Zizek
Publisher Verso Books
Pages 1049
Release 2012-05-22
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1844679020

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A thousand-page resurrection of Hegel, from the bestselling philosopher and critic who has been hailed as “one of the world’s best-known public intellectuals” (New York Review of Books) For the last two centuries, Western philosophy has developed in the shadow of Hegel, an influence each new thinker struggles to escape. As a consequence, Hegel’s absolute idealism has become the bogeyman of philosophy, obscuring the fact that he is the defining philosopher of the historical transition to modernity, a period with which our own times share startling similarities. Today, as global capitalism comes apart at the seams, we are entering a new period of transition. In Less Than Nothing—the product of a career-long focus on the part of its author—Slavoj Žižek argues it is imperative we not simply return to Hegel but that we repeat and exceed his triumphs, overcoming his limitations by being even more Hegelian than the master himself. Such an approach not only enables Žižek to diagnose our present condition, but also to engage in a critical dialogue with key strands of contemporary thought—Heidegger, Badiou, speculative realism, quantum physics, and cognitive sciences. Modernity will begin and end with Hegel.

Fragile Identities

Fragile Identities
Title Fragile Identities PDF eBook
Author Marianne Moyaert
Publisher Rodopi
Pages 357
Release 2011
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9042032804

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Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- The Theology of Religions -- The Theology of Religions and the Tension between Openness and Closedness -- A Critique of the Pluralist Model of Interreligious Dialogue -- The Cultural Linguistic Theory, Postliberalism, and Religious Incommensurability -- The End of Dialogue?: A Theological Critique of Postliberalism -- Interreligious Dialogue and Hermeneutical Openness -- Testimony and Openness: A Theological Perspective -- Bibliography -- Index of Subjects -- Index of Names.

Finitude’s Wounded Praise

Finitude’s Wounded Praise
Title Finitude’s Wounded Praise PDF eBook
Author Philip John Paul Gonzales
Publisher Wipf and Stock Publishers
Pages 272
Release 2023-11-07
Genre Religion
ISBN 1666710482

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The late Jean-Louis Chretien's responsorial and polyphonic style of thinking is nothing less than a performance of gratitude, which manifests the many ways and manners that our wounded finitude is graced and blessed along the peregrine path of human existence. Finitude's Wounded Praise: Responses to Jean-Louis Chretien is a receptive celebratory response to the immense fecundity and potential of Chretien's "thank you" of gratitude. This volume gathers leading Chretien scholars and thinkers to explicate, explore, think with, and commemorate his thought. The essays in the volume engage Chretien's work from three primary fields: phenomenological, literary/poetic, and theological. Finitude's Wounded Praise is a diverse, exploratory, and impressive testament to the expansive and enduring richness of Chretien's oeuvre.