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Resources of Christianity (Paperback)
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Christianity is bound up with the very idea of the West: we cannot
evade it even if we would like to. While many people no longer
believe in Christianity, we cannot deny that it has left a deep
imprint on Western thought. But how might we develop a philosophy
of Christianity that is not a Christian philosophy? How can we take
a view that is external to the traditions of apologetics and
criticism? For there is a question that concerns us all here: are
the coherences of Christianity still useful for thought, and
especially for thought about existence? To address this question,
Francois Jullien considers Christianity as constituting a set of
resources. Resources are available to all and can be used by those
who discover and exploit them; they belong to no one. Christianity
offers us resources inasmuch as we can draw some benefit from it,
inasmuch as it can be the source of an effect, without our having
to believe it or determine its truth in advance. Jullien reads the
Gospels, and especially the Gospel of John, as he would read any
other text, seeking to account for the text's coherence (rather
than its 'meaning'), seeking to account for its pertinence (rather
than its 'truth'), but without any need to adhere - the
exploitation of resources demands no conversion. And in reading the
Gospel of John in this way, we discover the fertile veins of a
theory of existence. This fresh and erudite reflection on
Christianity will be of great value to anyone interested in
religion and its relevance today.
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