Transcendence in Philosophy and Religion

Transcendence in Philosophy and Religion
Title Transcendence in Philosophy and Religion PDF eBook
Author James E. Faulconer
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 162
Release 2003
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 9780253215758

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Considering whether it is possible to analyse religious transcendence in a philosophical manner, this text explores French philosophy of religion, particularly Derrida, Marion, Levinas & Ricoeur, & the new ways they proposes thinking about religious experience in a postmodern world.

Transcendence and Self-transcendence

Transcendence and Self-transcendence
Title Transcendence and Self-transcendence PDF eBook
Author Merold Westphal
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 268
Release 2004
Genre Religion
ISBN 9780253344137

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The question of the transcendence of God has traditionally been thought in terms of the difference between pantheism, which affirms that God is wholly "within" the world, and theism, which affirms that God is both "within" and "outside" the world, both immanent and transcendent. Against Heidegger's critique of onto-theology and the general postmodern concern for respecting and preserving the difference of the other, Merold Westphal seeks to rethink divine transcendence in relation to modes of human self-transcendence. Touching upon Spinoza, Hegel, Augustine, Pseudo-Dionysius, Aquinas, Barth, Kierkegaard, Levinas, Derrida, and Marion, Westphal's work centers around a critique of onto-theology, the importance of alterity, the decentered self, and the autonomous transcendental ego. Westphal's phenomenology of faith sets this book into the main currents of Continental philosophy of religion today.

Considering Transcendence

Considering Transcendence
Title Considering Transcendence PDF eBook
Author Martin J. De Nys
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 191
Release 2009
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 025322022X

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A phenomenological account of religious life

Transcendence and Beyond

Transcendence and Beyond
Title Transcendence and Beyond PDF eBook
Author John D. Caputo
Publisher Indiana University Press
Pages 522
Release 2007
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0253348749

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A benchmark volume at the intersection of philosophy and religion

Ciphers of Transcendence

Ciphers of Transcendence
Title Ciphers of Transcendence PDF eBook
Author Fran O'Rourke
Publisher Merrion Press
Pages 494
Release 2019-11-28
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 1788551192

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The title Ciphers of Transcendence reflects the philosophical interests of Patrick Masterson, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy of Religion, University College Dublin. Transcendence is a millefeuille term conveying layered and diverse nuances, from the first openness of human awareness towards the outside world, to the ultimate affirmation of and commitment to a loving and infinite Transcendent. Patrick Masterson has devoted his philosophical career to reflection upon the unfathomable nature of the latter, seeking to decipher instances and images of transcendence within the realm of limited human experience. Through teaching and writing he has shared with students and readers his deeply personal reflections on questions of primal importance. Patrick Masterson’s colleagues and students – all devoted friends – here offer, in return, their diverse perspectives. The essays deal in one way or another with transcendence, examined in dialogue with a roll call of thinkers across the ages, from ancient authors to medieval masters, modern giants to recent luminaries. The volume is enhanced by the inclusion of an essay by leading contemporary thinker Alasdair MacIntyre, and a poem from Seamus Heaney that evokes across the silence of solitude the tender presence of transcendence.

Transcendence, Creation and Incarnation

Transcendence, Creation and Incarnation
Title Transcendence, Creation and Incarnation PDF eBook
Author Anthony O'Hear
Publisher Routledge
Pages 263
Release 2020-06-11
Genre Religion
ISBN 1000164101

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This book expounds and analyses notions of transcendence, creation and incarnation reflectively and personally, combining both philosophical and religious insights. Preferring tender-minded approaches to reductively materialistic ones, it shows some ways in which reductive approaches to human affairs can distort the appreication of our lives and activities. In the book’s first half it examines a number of aspects of human life and experience in the thought of Darwin, Ruskin, and Scruton with a view to exploring the extent to which there could be intimations of transcendence. The second half is then devoted to outlining an account of divine creation and incarnation, deriving initially, though not uncritically, from the thought of Simone Weil. The text concludes by examining the extent to which grace is needed to engage in religious practice and belief. Taking in art, literature, music and classical Greek writings, this is a multifaceted thesis on transcendence. It will, therefore, will be of keen interest to any scholar of Philosophy of Religion, Theology, Aesthetics and Metaphysics.

Human Existence and Transcendence

Human Existence and Transcendence
Title Human Existence and Transcendence PDF eBook
Author Jean Wahl
Publisher University of Notre Dame Pess
Pages 212
Release 2016-12-15
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0268101094

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William C. Hackett’s English translation of Jean Wahl’s Existence humaine et transcendence (1944) brings back to life an all-but-forgotten book that provocatively explores the philosophical concept of transcendence. Based on what Emmanuel Levinas called “Wahl’s famous lecture” from 1937, Existence humaine et transcendence captured a watershed moment of European philosophy. Included in the book are Wahl's remarkable original lecture and the debate that ensued, with significant contributions by Gabriel Marcel and Nicolai Berdyaev, as well as letters submitted on the occasion by Heidegger, Levinas, Jaspers, and other famous figures from that era. Concerned above all with the ineradicable felt value of human experience by which any philosophical thesis is measured, Wahl makes a daring clarification of the concept of transcendence and explores its repercussions through a masterly appeal to many (often surprising) places within the entire history of Western thought. Apart from its intrinsic philosophical significance as a discussion of the concepts of being, the absolute, and transcendence, Wahl's work is valuable insofar as it became a focal point for a great many other European intellectuals. Hackett has provided an annotated introduction to orient readers to this influential work of twentieth-century French philosophy and to one of its key figures.