Process, Praxis, and Transcendence

Reviews / Votes

"Marsh's book represents a superb critical and constructive response to a variety of postmodern alternatives. This book should be required reading for every student of religion who hopes to communicate transcendence relevantly in this postmodern world." - Religious Studies Review

"The topic is very significant. Marsh deals with the question of metaphysics and religion and relates it to broader political and epistemological issues. In some ways, the issue of religion and metaphysics has been skirted by much contemporary philosophy, particularly continental philosophy and Marsh's book makes it critical. The author does a fascinating job of dialectically uniting polar opposites: faith and reason, poetry and rigorous argument, Lonergan and Whitehead, Whitehead and Marx, Kierkegaard and Marx, critical theory and faith, metaphysics and politics, rationality and radicalism, theory and praxis, social and economic liberation movements, and the list goes on. The book is so rich it will appeal to many constituencies." - Michael D. Barber, St. Louis University

"By offering a systematic account a la Habermas of the way in which metaphysics factors into a critical social theory, Marsh has established a model that others writing on this topic will have to respond to. His account provides a framework that will greatly enable further scholarly research on this topic. His attempt to demonstrate that metaphysics is possible, and that without that possibility social and political action is impossible, is extremely insightful. This is a book that has the potential to make a tremendous impact." - George Trey, Saint Mary's College