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Overcoming Onto-Theology: Toward a Postmodern Christian Faith
Merold Westphal
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Description for Overcoming Onto-Theology: Toward a Postmodern Christian Faith
Hardback. "Westphal here brings together his discussions over the last decade of how Christianity can and should engage and appropriate post-modernism..it's easily the best contribution to the discussion that I know of."-Nicholas Wolterstorff, Yale University Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy. Num Pages: 306 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAB; HRC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 3895 x 5830 x 23. Weight in Grams: 658.
Overcoming Onto-theology is a stunning collection of essays by Merold Westphal, one of America’s leading continental philosophers of religion, in which Westphal carefully explores the nature and the structure of a postmodern Christian philosophy. Written with characteristic clarity and charm, Westphal offers masterful studies of Heidegger’s early lectures on Paul and Augustine, the idea of hermeneutics, Schleiermacher, Hegel, Derrida, and Nietzsche, all in the service of building his argument that postmodern thinking offers an indispensable tool for rethinking Christian faith. A must read for every student and professor of continental philosophy and the philosophy of religion, Overcoming Onto-theology is an ... Read more
Overcoming Onto-theology is a stunning collection of essays by Merold Westphal, one of America’s leading continental philosophers of religion, in which Westphal carefully explores the nature and the structure of a postmodern Christian philosophy. Written with characteristic clarity and charm, Westphal offers masterful studies of Heidegger’s early lectures on Paul and Augustine, the idea of hermeneutics, Schleiermacher, Hegel, Derrida, and Nietzsche, all in the service of building his argument that postmodern thinking offers an indispensable tool for rethinking Christian faith. A must read for every student and professor of continental philosophy and the philosophy of religion, Overcoming Onto-theology is an ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
306
Condition
New
Series
Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
Number of Pages
306
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823221301
SKU
V9780823221301
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About Merold Westphal
Merold Westphal is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University and author of Suspicion and Faith: The Religious Uses of Modern Atheism.
Reviews for Overcoming Onto-Theology: Toward a Postmodern Christian Faith
"...A welcome addition to Christian philosophy and to the interpretation of religious themes in contemporary Continental thought." -Philosophia Christi "Westphal's arguments are illuminating and provocative..." -Academic Printing and Publishing "Westphal here brings together his discussions over the last decade of how Christianity can and should engage and appropriate post-modernism...it's easily the best contribution to the discussion that I know of." ... Read more