Secular Grace
Published on 2. March 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
212 pages
978-90-04-33229-4 (ISBN)
Description
In Secular Grace Dana Freibach-Heifetz addresses the crisis of modernity, proposing an ethic of love based on a new philosophical concept of "secular grace" as intersubjective relations.
Anchored in secular humanism as well as within the existentialist tradition, yet recognizing their limitations, Secular Grace seeks to protrude them by means of dialogue with their other: Christianity. Inspired by a variety of intellectual roots from ancient Greece to post modernist thinkers - chiefly the deliberations of Buber and Levinas in the encounter with the other, and notions of gift and friendship - it offers a rich concept of Secular Grace. It furthermore examines the possibilities of grace towards the dead, self-grace and secular salvation.
Anchored in secular humanism as well as within the existentialist tradition, yet recognizing their limitations, Secular Grace seeks to protrude them by means of dialogue with their other: Christianity. Inspired by a variety of intellectual roots from ancient Greece to post modernist thinkers - chiefly the deliberations of Buber and Levinas in the encounter with the other, and notions of gift and friendship - it offers a rich concept of Secular Grace. It furthermore examines the possibilities of grace towards the dead, self-grace and secular salvation.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-33229-4 (9789004332294)
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Person
Dana Freibach-Heifetz, Ph.D (2005), Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology, and the Arts, is a philosopher, human rights lawyer and art therapist. She has published articles and co-edited Despair and Redemption (Ben Gurion University Press, 2003) and The Meaning of Life (Hakibbutz Hameuchad & Yehoraz Association, 1999).
Content
Preface
0. Introduction
a. The Death of God
b. Freedom Devoid of Alternatives to Religion
c. Quasi-Religious Alternatives to Religion
d. Secular Humanism
e. Secular Grace
f. The Structure and Methodology of the Book
1. Grace and Salvation in Christianity
a. Relation: The Personal Nature of the Relation of Grace
b. Gift: Grace and the Law
c. Free Will to Give and to Receive
d. The Subjective Aspect of Grace
e. The Objective Aspect of Grace
f. Outcomes of Grace: Salvation
2. Secular Grace: First Thoughts
A general concept of grace: The background of secular grace
a. Relationship
b. Gift: Grace and Morality
c. Free Will
d. The Subjective Aspect: Mutual Love
e. The Objective Aspect: Acts of Grace
f. Outcomes of Grace
3. Dialogue, Encounter, Friendship, Gift
a. I-Thou Relationship According to Buber
b. The Encounter with the Face of the Other in the Thinking of Levinas
c. Gift and Generosity
d. Friendship
4. Secular Grace: Further Glance
a. Secular Grace in Prose
b. Grace-Relation with the Dead
c. Self-Grace
5. Secular Salvation?
a. Secular Grace and Salvation
b. Humanist, Existential, Secular Grace
Bibliography
0. Introduction
a. The Death of God
b. Freedom Devoid of Alternatives to Religion
c. Quasi-Religious Alternatives to Religion
d. Secular Humanism
e. Secular Grace
f. The Structure and Methodology of the Book
1. Grace and Salvation in Christianity
a. Relation: The Personal Nature of the Relation of Grace
b. Gift: Grace and the Law
c. Free Will to Give and to Receive
d. The Subjective Aspect of Grace
e. The Objective Aspect of Grace
f. Outcomes of Grace: Salvation
2. Secular Grace: First Thoughts
A general concept of grace: The background of secular grace
a. Relationship
b. Gift: Grace and Morality
c. Free Will
d. The Subjective Aspect: Mutual Love
e. The Objective Aspect: Acts of Grace
f. Outcomes of Grace
3. Dialogue, Encounter, Friendship, Gift
a. I-Thou Relationship According to Buber
b. The Encounter with the Face of the Other in the Thinking of Levinas
c. Gift and Generosity
d. Friendship
4. Secular Grace: Further Glance
a. Secular Grace in Prose
b. Grace-Relation with the Dead
c. Self-Grace
5. Secular Salvation?
a. Secular Grace and Salvation
b. Humanist, Existential, Secular Grace
Bibliography