William Desmond and Contemporary Theology

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"William Desmond is a philosopher whose work is not only open to theology and oriented toward the 'divine horizon,' but one from whom theology has a very great deal to learn. His is a unique-and uniquely beautiful-voice, and the more widely his influence spreads the better. Simpson and Sammon have assembled a truly remarkable company of theological respondents to Desmond's project, and we can only hope that his volume will help to prompt more numerous and extensive theological engagements with Desmond's work." -David Bentley Hart, Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study

"The themes covered in this book are especially to be welcomed, and should provide a major starting point for any scholars wishing to explore in greater detail the significance of Desmond's work for contemporary theological and theoretical developments. This is an impressive and well-paced collection of essays." -Catherine Pickstock, University of Cambridge

"The essays in this book are of a uniformly high standard. They are unified by a direct interest in Desmondian metaphysics of existence with strong aesthetic highlights. The essays are well written, the book coheres around enthusiasm for the renewal of metaphysics. This is an important book, signaling a new direction in theological philosophy." -Francesca Aran Murphy, University of Notre Dame

"William Desmond's metaphysics offers a serious alternative both to the subjective bias and unexplained correlationism of phenomenology and to the inhuman and often extra-rational objectivism of the current secular revival of ontology. It shows how only an account of existence as pointing to God is able to explicate and account for the intimacy of reason with Being in a way that is hospitable to all things, yet respectful of the supremacy of Spirit and its crucial ontological role. The fine essays in this volume by distinguished contributors all serve to develop his vision and to show why it is the way forward, not just for philosophers, but for the human race in its genuine, situated humanity." -John Milbank, University of Nottingham