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In this volume, scholars draw deeply on negative theology in order
to consider some of the oldest questions in the philosophy of
religion that stand as persistent challenges to inquiry,
comprehension, and expression. The chapters engage different
philosophical methodologies, cross disciplinary boundaries, and
draw on varied cultural traditions in the effort to demonstrate
that apophaticism can be a positive resource for contemporary
philosophy of religion.
In this volume, scholars draw deeply on negative theology in order
to consider some of the oldest questions in the philosophy of
religion that stand as persistent challenges to inquiry,
comprehension, and expression. The chapters engage different
philosophical methodologies, cross disciplinary boundaries, and
draw on varied cultural traditions in the effort to demonstrate
that apophaticism can be a positive resource for contemporary
philosophy of religion.
This volume illustrates the relevance of phenomenology to a range
of contemporary concerns. Displaying both the epistemological rigor
of classical phenomenology and the empirical analysis of more
recent versions, its chapters discuss a wide range of issues from
justice and value to embodiment and affectivity. The authors draw
on analytic, continental, and pragmatic resources to demonstrate
how phenomenology is an important resource for questions of
personal existence and social life. The book concludes by
considering how the future of phenomenology relates to contemporary
philosophy and related academic fields.
Kierkegaard's God and the Good Life focuses on faith and love, two
central topics in Kierkegaard's writings, to grapple with complex
questions at the intersection of religion and ethics. Here, leading
scholars reflect on Kierkegaard's understanding of God, the
religious life, and what it means to exist ethically. The
contributors then shift to psychology, hope, knowledge, and the
emotions as they offer critical and constructive readings for
contemporary philosophical debates in the philosophy of religion,
moral philosophy, and epistemology. Together, they show how
Kierkegaard continues to be an important resource for
understandings of religious existence, public discourse, social
life, and how to live virtuously.
Kierkegaard's God and the Good Life focuses on faith and love, two
central topics in Kierkegaard's writings, to grapple with complex
questions at the intersection of religion and ethics. Here, leading
scholars reflect on Kierkegaard's understanding of God, the
religious life, and what it means to exist ethically. The
contributors then shift to psychology, hope, knowledge, and the
emotions as they offer critical and constructive readings for
contemporary philosophical debates in the philosophy of religion,
moral philosophy, and epistemology. Together, they show how
Kierkegaard continues to be an important resource for
understandings of religious existence, public discourse, social
life, and how to live virtuously.
Religious beliefs are deeply connected to and expressive of
religious life. Yet mainstream philosophy of religion has primarily
focused on the truth and justification of religious beliefs. This
is the first collection to acknowledge the vital role practice
plays in shaping what we believe. Emerging and established voices
across different philosophical traditions come together to consider
public worship from perspectives such as trauma and social
ontology, sound and silence, knowledge and hope. They use of
liturgy as a lens to view embodied religious practice,
intrinsically connecting religious rituals to human existence and
cutting across the so-called 'analytic-continental' divide. Case
studies, taken from Christianity, offer analyses that address power
structures associated with modes of knowing. The purpose is not to
reject what has gone before but to expand the focus of philosophy
of religion. This approach lays the groundwork for investigations
into how beliefs are situated in our theological, moral, and social
frameworks. For any philosophy of religion student or scholar
interested in how thinking and living well are intimately related,
this is a go-to resource. It takes seriously the importance of
historical religious traditions and communities, opening the space
for cross-cultural and interdisciplinary debates.
Among many of his influences, James K. A. Smith set the agenda for
Pentecostal philosophy with the publication of Thinking in Tongues,
which addressed a wide range of philosophical loci through the lens
of Pentecostal spirituality. In particular, he articulated an
epistemology called narrative, affective knowledge, one that
carefully utilizes the resources from continental philosophy and
Pentecostalism. In Pentecostalism, Postmodernism, and Reformed
Epistemology: James K. A. Smith and the Contours of a Postmodern
Christian Epistemology, while accepting the broader descriptions of
narrative, affective epistemology, Yoon Shin critically modifies
and strengthens Smith's epistemology through careful exposition and
critique and with the aid of wide-ranging resources, such as moral
psychology, philosophy of emotion, postliberalism, and Reformed
epistemology. Through his exposition, Shin argues that Smith's
Pentecostal epistemology is not uniquely Pentecostal, but
postliberal and postmodern. Against Smith's insistence that to be a
Christian postmodern is to be a relativist, Shin critiques Smith's
misunderstanding of postliberalism and its realist commitment and
argues for a performative correspondence theory of truth. Moreover,
he expands on Smith's thin prescription for knowledge by enlisting
the aid of Reformed epistemology. Through dialogue with Reformed
epistemology, Shin identifies three areas for dialogue between
postmodern and Reformed epistemology in service of developing a
postmodern Christian epistemology.
Rorty and the Prophetic interrogates and provides a constructive
assessment to the American neo-pragmatist philosopher Richard
Rorty's critiques of Jewish ethics. Rorty dismisses the public
applicability of Jewish moral reasoning, because it is based on
"the will of God" through divine revelation. As a self-described
secular philosopher, it comes as no surprise that Rorty does not
find public applicability within a divinely-ordered Jewish ethic.
Rorty also rejects the French Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas's
ethics, which is based upon the notion of infinite responsibility
to the Face of the Other. In Rorty's judgment, Levinas's ethics is
"gawky, awkward, and unenlightening." From a Rortyan perspective,
it seems that Jewish ethics simply can't win: either it is either
too dependent on the will of God or over-emphasizes the human
Other. The volume responds to Rorty's criticisms of Jewish ethics
in three different ways: first, demonstrating agreements between
Rorty and Jewish thinkers; second, offering reflective responses to
Rorty's critiques of Judaism on the questions of Messianism,
prophecy, and the relationship between politics and theology;
third, taking on Rorty's seemingly unfair judgment that Levinas's
ethics is "gawky, awkward, and unenlightening." While Rorty does
not engage the prophetic tradition of Jewish thought in his essay,
"Glorious Hopes, Failed Prophecies," he dismisses the possibility
for prophetic reasoning because of its other-worldliness and its
emphasis on predicting the future. Rorty fails to attend to and
recognize the complexity of prophetic reasoning, and this book
presents the complexity of the prophetic within Judaism. Toward
these ends and more, Brad Elliott Stone and Jacob L. Goodson offer
this book to scholars who contribute to the Jewish academy, those
within American Philosophy, and those who think Richard Rorty's
voice ought to remain in "conversations" about religion and
"conversations" among the religious.
Edited by Mylan Engel Jr. and Gary Lynn Comstock, this book employs
different ethical lenses, including classical deontology,
libertarianism, commonsense morality, virtue ethics,
utilitarianism, and the capabilities approach, to explore the
philosophical basis for the strong animal rights view, which holds
that animals have moral rights equal in strength to the rights of
humans, while also addressing what are undoubtedly the most serious
challenges to the strong animal rights stance, including the
challenges posed by rights nihilism, the "kind" argument against
animal rights, the problem of predation, and the comparative value
of lives. In addition, contributors explore the practical import of
animal rights both from a social policy standpoint and from the
standpoint of personal ethical decisions concerning what to eat and
whether to hunt animals. Unlike other volumes on animal rights,
which focus primarily on the legal rights of animals, and unlike
other anthologies on animal ethics, which tend to cover a wide
variety of topics but only devote a few articles to each topic,
this volume focuses exclusively on the question of whether animals
have moral rights and the practical import of such rights. The
Moral Rights of Animals will be an indispensable resource for
scholars, teachers, and students in the fields of animal ethics,
applied ethics, ethical theory, and human-animal studies, as well
as animal rights advocates and policy makers interested in
improving the treatment of animals.
Edited by Mylan Engel Jr. and Gary Lynn Comstock, this book employs
different ethical lenses, including classical deontology,
libertarianism, commonsense morality, virtue ethics,
utilitarianism, and the capabilities approach, to explore the
philosophical basis for the strong animal rights view, which holds
that animals have moral rights equal in strength to the rights of
humans, while also addressing what are undoubtedly the most serious
challenges to the strong animal rights stance, including the
challenges posed by rights nihilism, the "kind" argument against
animal rights, the problem of predation, and the comparative value
of lives. In addition, contributors explore the practical import of
animal rights both from a social policy standpoint and from the
standpoint of personal ethical decisions concerning what to eat and
whether to hunt animals. Unlike other volumes on animal rights,
which focus primarily on the legal rights of animals, and unlike
other anthologies on animal ethics, which tend to cover a wide
variety of topics but only devote a few articles to each topic,
this volume focuses exclusively on the question of whether animals
have moral rights and the practical import of such rights. The
Moral Rights of Animals will be an indispensable resource for
scholars, teachers, and students in the fields of animal ethics,
applied ethics, ethical theory, and human-animal studies, as well
as animal rights advocates and policy makers interested in
improving the treatment of animals.
The New Phenomenology: A Philosophical Introduction is the first
available introduction to the group of philosophers sometimes
associated with the so-called 'theological turn' in contemporary
French thought. This book argues that there has not been a 'turn'
to theology in recent French phenomenology, but instead a decidedly
philosophical reconsideration of phenomenology itself. Engaging the
foundational works of Emmanuel Levinas and Michel Henry, as well as
later works by Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Marion and Jean-Louis
Chretien, the book explores how these thinkers offer a coherent
philosophical trajectory - the 'New Phenomenology.' Contending that
New Phenomenology is of relevance to a wide range of issues in
contemporary philosophy, the book considers the contributions of
the new phenomenologists to debates in the philosophy of religion,
hermeneutics, ethics, and politics. With a final chapter looking at
future directions for research on possible intersections between
new phenomenology and analytic philosophy, this is an essential
read for anyone seeking an overview of this important strand of
contemporary European thought.
The New Phenomenology: A Philosophical Introduction is the first
available introduction to the group of philosophers sometimes
associated with the so-called 'theological turn' in contemporary
French thought. This book argues that there has not been a 'turn'
to theology in recent French phenomenology, but instead a decidedly
philosophical reconsideration of phenomenology itself. Engaging the
foundational works of Emmanuel Levinas and Michel Henry, as well as
later works by Jacques Derrida, Jean-Luc Marion and Jean-Louis
Chretien, the book explores how these thinkers offer a coherent
philosophical trajectory - the 'New Phenomenology.' Contending that
New Phenomenology is of relevance to a wide range of issues in
contemporary philosophy, the book considers the contributions of
the new phenomenologists to debates in the philosophy of religion,
hermeneutics, ethics, and politics. With a final chapter looking at
future directions for research on possible intersections between
new phenomenology and analytic philosophy, this is an essential
read for anyone seeking an overview of this important strand of
contemporary European thought.
The theological turn in French phenomenology has been of great
interest to scholars working in contemporary continental thought,
but according to J. Aaron Simmons, not enough has been done to
bring these debates into conversation with more mainstream
philosophy. Building on the work of Kierkegaard, Levinas, Marion,
and Derrida, among others, Simmons suggests how continental
philosophy of religion can intersect with political philosophy,
environmental philosophy, and theories of knowledge. By
productively engaging philosophical "God-talk," Simmons proposes a
robust model of postmodern religious belief and ethical
existence.
Recent discussions in the philosophy of religion, ethics, and
personal political philosophy have been deeply marked by the
influence of two philosophers who are often thought to be in
opposition to each other, Soren Kierkegaard and Emmanuel Levinas.
Devoted expressly to the relationship between Levinas and
Kierkegaard, this volume sets forth a more rigorous comparison and
sustained engagement between them. Established and newer scholars
representing varied philosophical traditions bring these two
thinkers into dialogue in 12 sparkling essays. They consider
similarities and differences in how each elaborated a unique
philosophy of religion, and they present themes such as time,
obligation, love, politics, God, transcendence, and subjectivity.
This conversation between neighbors is certain to inspire further
inquiry and ignite philosophical debate."
The theological turn in French phenomenology has been of great
interest to scholars working in contemporary continental thought,
but according to J. Aaron Simmons, not enough has been done to
bring these debates into conversation with more mainstream
philosophy. Building on the work of Kierkegaard, Levinas, Marion,
and Derrida, among others, Simmons suggests how continental
philosophy of religion can intersect with political philosophy,
environmental philosophy, and theories of knowledge. By
productively engaging philosophical "God-talk," Simmons proposes a
robust model of postmodern religious belief and ethical
existence.
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