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Christopher Ben Simpson tells the story of modern Christian
theology against the backdrop of the history of modernity itself.
The book tells the many ways that theology became modern while
seeing how modernity arose in no small part from theology. These
intertwined stories progress through four parts. In Part I,
Emerging Modernity, Simpson goes from the beginnings of modernity
in the late Middle Ages through the Protestant Reformation and
Renaissance Humanism to the creative tension between Enlightenments
and Awakenings of the eighteenth-century. Part II, The Long
Nineteenth-Century, presents the great movements and figures
arising out of these creative tension - from Romanticism and
Schleiermacher to Ritschlianism and Vatican I. Part III,
Twentieth-Century Crisis and Modernity, proceeds through the
revolutionary theologies of period of the World Wars such as that
of Karl Barth or novuelle theologie; this part includes a thorough
section on modern Eastern Orthodox theology. Finally, Part IV, The
Late Modern Supernova, lays out the diverse panoply of recent
theologies - from the various liberation theologies to the
revisionist, the secular, the postliberal, and the postsecular.
Designed for classroom use, this volume includes the following
features: - boxes/chart/diagrams/visual organizations of the
information presented included throughout: e.g. lists of key
points, visual organizations of systematic ideas in a given
thinker, lists of significant works, lists of significant dates,
brief outlines of the basic structure of some major theological
works - both a one-page chapter title table of the contents and an
expanded(multipage) table of contents - chapter at-a-glance
overview/outline at the beginning of each chapter - specific
references to secondary works and key primary works in Enqlish
translation at the end of chapters
What can a theologian do with Deleuze? While using philosophy as a
resource for theology is nothing new, Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995)
presents a kind of limit-case for such a theological appropriation
of philosophy: a thoroughly "modern" philosophy that would seem to
be fundamentally hostile to Christian theology--a philosophy of
atheistic immanence with an essentially chaotic vision of the
world. Nonetheless, Deleuze's philosophy can generate many
potential intersections with theology opening onto a field of
configurations: a fractious middle between radical Deleuzian
theologies that would think through theology and reinterpret it
from the perspective of some version of Deleuzian philosophy and
other theologies that would seek to learn from and respond to
Deleuze from the perspective of confessional theology--to take from
the encounter with Deleuze an opportunity to clarify and reform an
orthodox Christian self-understanding.
In William Desmond and Contemporary Theology, Christopher Simpson
and Brendan Sammon coordinate, through a collection of scholarly
essays, a timely exploration of William Desmond's work on theology
and metaphysics, bringing the disciplines of philosophy and
theology together in new and vital ways. The book examines the
contribution that Desmond's metaphysics makes to contemporary
theological discourse and to the renewal of metaphysics. A central
issue for the contributors is the renewal of metaphysics within the
post-metaphysical, or anti-metaphysical, context of late modernity.
This volume not only capably demonstrates the viability of the
metaphysical tradition but also illuminates its effectiveness and
value in dealing with the many issues in contemporary theological
conversation. William Desmond and Contemporary Theology presents
Desmond's contemporary, yet historically aware, continental
metaphysics as able to provide revealing insights for the
discussion of the relation between philosophy and theology. Simpson
and Sammon argue, moreover, that Desmond's contribution to linking
these two fields makes his an important voice in the academic
conversation. Students and scholars of Desmond, contemporary
philosophy, theology, and literature will find much to provoke
thought in this collection. Contributors: John R. Betz, Christopher
R. Brewer, Patrick X. Gardner, Joseph K. Gordon, Renee
Koehler-Ryan, D. Stephen Long, John Panteleimon Manoussakis, Cyril
O'Regan, Brendan Thomas Sammon, D. C. Schindler, Christopher Ben
Simpson, and Corey Benjamin Tutewiler.
Christopher Ben Simpson tells the story of modern Christian
theology against the backdrop of the history of modernity itself.
The book tells the many ways that theology became modern while
seeing how modernity arose in no small part from theology. These
intertwined stories progress through four parts. In Part I,
Emerging Modernity, Simpson goes from the beginnings of modernity
in the late Middle Ages through the Protestant Reformation and
Renaissance Humanism to the creative tension between Enlightenments
and Awakenings of the eighteenth-century. Part II, The Long
Nineteenth-Century, presents the great movements and figures
arising out of these creative tension - from Romanticism and
Schleiermacher to Ritschlianism and Vatican I. Part III,
Twentieth-Century Crisis and Modernity, proceeds through the
revolutionary theologies of period of the World Wars such as that
of Karl Barth or novuelle theologie; this part includes a thorough
section on modern Eastern Orthodox theology. Finally, Part IV, The
Late Modern Supernova, lays out the diverse panoply of recent
theologies - from the various liberation theologies to the
revisionist, the secular, the postliberal, and the postsecular.
Designed for classroom use, this volume includes the following
features: - boxes/chart/diagrams/visual organizations of the
information presented included throughout: e.g. lists of key
points, visual organizations of systematic ideas in a given
thinker, lists of significant works, lists of significant dates,
brief outlines of the basic structure of some major theological
works - both a one-page chapter title table of the contents and an
expanded(multipage) table of contents - chapter at-a-glance
overview/outline at the beginning of each chapter - specific
references to secondary works and key primary works in Enqlish
translation at the end of chapters
Known especially for his original system of metaphysics in a
trilogy of books published between 1995 and 2008, and for his
scholarship on Hegel, William Desmond has left his mark on the
philosophy of religion, ethics, and aesthetics. "The William
Desmond Reader" provides for the first time in a single book a
point of entry into his original and constructive philosophy,
including carefully chosen selections of his works that introduce
the key ideas, perspectives, and contributions of his philosophy as
a whole. Also featured is an original essay by Desmond himself
reflecting synthetically on the topics covered, as well as an
interview by Richard Kearney.
About the Contributor(s): Christopher Ben Simpson is Associate
Professor of Philosophy and Theology at Lincoln Christian
University.
In The Truth Is the Way, Christopher Ben Simpson presents
Kierkegaard's work as a theologia viatorum, a theology to guide one
on life's way. Thistruth that is the way is at once existential,
metaphysical, and theological - the highest truth is a living in
accord with reality that is revealed to us and enabled in us by
Jesus Christ. This picture ofKierkegaard's thought, drawing on the
whole of his published corpus, presents his perspectives (by way of
prolegomena) on the nature oftruth, of communication and of faith
and (more substantially) his guiding vision of the world, God,
humanity, and Christ, culminating in Kierkegaard's understanding of
the manner of life lived in light of this vision - of a journey
walked in the virtues of patience, faith, hope, and love toward a
life of joy in the midst of suffering, of communion withoneself,
with God, with others.
William Desmond s original and creative work in metaphysics is
attracting more and more attention from philosophers of religion.
Putting Desmond in conversation with John D. Caputo, an important
philosopher of religion from the Continental tradition, Christopher
Ben Simpson casts new light on Desmond s complex, multifaceted, and
nuanced thought. The comparative approach allows Simpson to get at
the core of recent debates in the philosophy of religion. He
develops a rich understanding of how ethics and religion are
informed by metaphysics, and contrasts this approach to the
decidedly anti-metaphysical stance in Continental philosophy.
Religion, Metaphysics, and the Postmodern presents a systematic
analysis of Desmond's thought as it advances work on Caputo s
thinking and on the philosophy of religion."
The philosophical contributions of French phenomenologist, Maurice
Merleau-Ponty, carry great untapped potential for theologians
thinking through some of the central affirmations of the Christian
faith. This exploration is structured against the background of the
fundamental interrelation between three "bodies" in Merleau-Ponty's
thought and in Christian theology: the material as such or "nature"
(the corporeal), the human body as a living body (the corporal),
and the social body (the corporate-including language and
tradition). Merleau-Ponty's philosophy offers a finessed and
non-reductionistic understanding of the relations between these
orders of bodies. Appropriating Merleau-Ponty's thought helps one
think through Christian doctrines of creation, theological
anthropology, Christology, ecclesiology, and eschatology.
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