Spiritual Exercises for a Secular Age

Rezensionen / Stimmen

"Lamenting the divorce between 'academic' and 'spiritual' theology has become commonplace, as has citing Karl Rahner's prophetic counsel regarding the necessity of a catholicized mysticism for the Church's survival. Heeding these summonses, though, by proffering a genuinely novel formative and informative text intending the reader's transformative performance is a noteworthy achievement, and such is precisely what Ryan G. Duns, SJ, accomplishes in Spiritual Exercises for a Secular Age: Desmond and the Quest for God." -New Blackfriars

I found Ryan Duns's new book Spiritual Exercises for a Secular Age: Desmond and the Quest for God enjoyable on several levels. He shows great skill in writing-even singing at times-about a number of key ideas. He also adeptly exposits the meandering thinking of (especially) Charles Taylor and William Desmond and builds on their thought by suggesting new avenues and roads that we may follow today as we continue to wrestle with the question of God. -Mark Novak in Syndicate symposium

"Ryan Duns, S.J. shows how Desmond's metaphysics complements Taylor's genealogy in Spiritual Exercises for a Secular Age: Desmond and the Quest for God, which recently received the College Theology Society's Best Book Award." -Genealogies of Modernity

"This book offers a penetrating, yet entirely accessible, account of not only William Desmond's metaxological metaphysics but more importantly how Desmond's metaphysics serves to heal those forms of theological discourse that have become malnourished by the neglect of the practice of spiritual exercising." -Brendan Sammon, co-editor of William Desmond and Contemporary Theology

"Ryan Duns rightfully reads William Desmond as not only giving us ideas for consideration but ways of being in the world that open cracks if not breakthroughs onto a wider and deeper reality." -Christopher Ben Simpson, editor of The William Desmond Reader