Theology and Difference
The Wound of Reason
Published on 22. July 1993
Book
Hardback
204 pages
978-0-253-33611-8 (ISBN)
Description
"Theology and Difference" reconceives the options confronting modern theology. Pressing beyond the ready-made enlightenment offered by the subject-object framework, Walter Lowe uncovers a number of remarkable convergences between the contemporary philosopher Jacques Derrida and the early twentieth-century theologian Karl Barth. With these convergences as clues, Lowe reads modern theology as an extended debate over a certain notion of 'finite transcendence.' He argues for a theology that would preserve the memory of suffering and the awareness of human pain. Such a theology, he believes, is required in the face of the mass violence of this century. However, awareness of such violence need not entail a belittling of human reason. The wound of reason, Lowe argues, is not simply a wound inflicted by reason. It is a wound borne by reason - provided that reason realizes itself as truly critical and dialectical.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bloomington, IN
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
2 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
500 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-253-33611-8 (9780253336118)
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Content
Preface I. Introduction: Violence and Reason Pitfalls of Enlightenment The Dissolving of Difference The Memory of Suffering Making Sense of Derrida Tradition in Question Contextualization The Idealist Diamond The Kantian Opening II. Qualitative Difference: BarthOs Epistle to the Romans Qualitative Difference Memory of God The Christ Event An Analogy of Difference? Theology and Difference: The Argument in Brief III. Truth and Contextualization: Freud, Husserl, Derrida Freud and the Logic of Suspicion Kant and the Issue of Objectivity Husserl and the Western Discovery of Objectivity Derida and the Deconstruction of Objectivity Ricoeur and Theological Hermeneutics Hermeneutics and the Idealist Diamond The Deconstructionist Alternative The Insistnece of the Truth Question IV. The Kantian Opening Kant and the Sublation of Theodicy Ontotheology and the Great Chain of Being Plenitude and the Otherness of Time Kant and the New Cosmology Beyond Ontotheology Opening the First Critique The Coram Deo V. The Otherness of the Ethical Opening the Second Critique The Wound of Reason Imperative as Contextualization The Return of Theodicy Rational Existentialism Cutting the Idealist Diamond VI. The Ethics of Otherness The Argument Reviewed The A/theology of Mark C. Taylor Barth and the Problem of Ethics Dialectic and Repentance Thinking through the Wound Notes Selected Bibliography Index