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This volume explores the potential of employing a relational
paradigm for the purposes of interdisciplinary exchange. Bringing
together scholars from the social sciences, philosophy and
theology, it seeks to bridge the gap between subject areas by
focusing on real phenomena.Although these phenomena are studied by
different disciplines, the editors demonstrate that it is also
possible to study them from a common relational perspective that
connects the different languages, theories and perspectives which
characterize each discipline, by going beyond their differences to
the core of reality itself. As an experimental collection that
highlights the potential that exists for cross-disciplinary work,
this volume will appeal to scholars across a range of field
concerned with critical realist approaches to research,
collaborative work across subjects and the manner in which
disciplines can offer one another new insights.
The global pandemic has levied a heavy toll on humanity, but in its
wake appears a great opportunity. Amidst what he calls a crisis of
modernity, Giulio Maspero points to a phenomenon that can be seen
in plain sight. "The absence of personal relationships highlighted
by the health crisis exposes the consequences of the modern matrix,
which, having lost its Christian element, now risks transforming
itself into a digital matrix, substantially configuring itself as a
technognosis." Without Trinitarian framework ancient and new idols
emerge, as the Covid-19 tragedies have shown. Yet post-pandemic
must be a moment of clarity and realism, as we can see how
necessary it is that humanity place itself in relation to something
beyond. The post-modern journey, however, must be in the spirit of
Christian humanism or else any so-called progress will no longer be
unable to speak authentically of our humanity. That is to say, the
relational dimension of human life will be erased right along with
the other ills that plague our earth.
This volume explores the potential of employing a relational
paradigm for the purposes of interdisciplinary exchange. Bringing
together scholars from the social sciences, philosophy and
theology, it seeks to bridge the gap between subject areas by
focusing on real phenomena.Although these phenomena are studied by
different disciplines, the editors demonstrate that it is also
possible to study them from a common relational perspective that
connects the different languages, theories and perspectives which
characterize each discipline, by going beyond their differences to
the core of reality itself. As an experimental collection that
highlights the potential that exists for cross-disciplinary work,
this volume will appeal to scholars across a range of field
concerned with critical realist approaches to research,
collaborative work across subjects and the manner in which
disciplines can offer one another new insights.
The economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the unrest
in the US following the unlawful death of George Floyd, and other
sources of social unrest and insecurity, have brought to a head
something that has been brewing in Western societies since the
Great Recession of 2008: the disillusionment with liberal democracy
as it evolved after World War II. Liberal political systems were
characterized by a working compromise between capital and labor,
between liberalism and socialism. This book analyzes how, and to
what extent, the rise of populism and "identitarian" political
movements, as well as the acceptance of world leaders who embody an
authoritarian style of government, has undermined this compromise.
Written by scholars from various disciplines, all of which share
the Christian faith, it offers a snapshot of an intellectual debate
among Christians who are deeply concerned about the world they live
in, and who share their constructive proposals for a way forward
after "liberalism as we know it." The contributors address topics
such as Christian alternatives to liberalism and populism,
challenges to post-liberalism, trans-liberalism, and relational
anthropology. Accordingly, the book will appeal to scholars who
wish to reflect on the order of our society, and to anyone who
shares the view that it is high time to rethink liberalism.
The economic downturn caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the unrest
in the US following the unlawful death of George Floyd, and other
sources of social unrest and insecurity, have brought to a head
something that has been brewing in Western societies since the
Great Recession of 2008: the disillusionment with liberal democracy
as it evolved after World War II. Liberal political systems were
characterized by a working compromise between capital and labor,
between liberalism and socialism. This book analyzes how, and to
what extent, the rise of populism and "identitarian" political
movements, as well as the acceptance of world leaders who embody an
authoritarian style of government, has undermined this compromise.
Written by scholars from various disciplines, all of which share
the Christian faith, it offers a snapshot of an intellectual debate
among Christians who are deeply concerned about the world they live
in, and who share their constructive proposals for a way forward
after "liberalism as we know it." The contributors address topics
such as Christian alternatives to liberalism and populism,
challenges to post-liberalism, trans-liberalism, and relational
anthropology. Accordingly, the book will appeal to scholars who
wish to reflect on the order of our society, and to anyone who
shares the view that it is high time to rethink liberalism.
In this volume, Giulio Maspero explores both the ontology and the
epistemology of the Cappadocians from historical and speculative
points of view. He shows how the Cappadocians developed a real
Trinitarian Ontology through their reshaping of the Aristotelian
category of relation, which they rescued from the accidental
dimension and inserted into the immanence of the one divine and
eternal substance. This perspective made possible a new conception
of individuation. No longer exclusively linked to substantial
difference, as in classical Greek philosophy, the concept was
instead founded on the mutual relation of the divine Persons. The
Cappadocians' metaphysical reshaping was also closely linked to a
new epistemological conception based on apophaticism, which
shattered the logical closure of their opponents, and anticipated
results that modern research has subsequently highlighted, Bridging
the late antique philosophy with Patristics, Maspero' s study
allows us to find the relational traces within the Trinity in the
world and in history.
This is a collection of essays from leading theologians outlining
current state of theological thought on the trinity. The book aims
at showing the most important topics and paradigms in modern
Trinitarian theology. It is supposed to be a comprehensive guide to
the many traces of development of Trinitarian faith. As such it is
thought to systematize the variety of contemporary approaches to
the field of Trinitarian theology in the present
philosophical-cultural context. The main goal of the publication is
not only a description of what happened to Trinitarian theology in
the modern age. It is rather to indicate the typically modern
specificity of the Trinitarian debate and - first of all - to
encourage development in the main areas and issues of this subject.
This book explores the relationship between being and time -between
ontology and history- in the context of both Christian theology and
philosophical inquiry. Each chapter tests the limits of this
multifaceted thematic vis-a-vis a wide variety of sources: from
patristics (Maximus the Confessor, Gregory of Nyssa) to philosophy
(Kant, Kierkegaard, Heidegger) to modern theology (Berdyaev,
Ratzinger, Fagerberg, Zizioulas, Yannaras, Loudovikos); from
incarnation to eschatology; and from liturgy and ecclesiology to
political theology. Among other topics, time and eternity,
protology and eschatology, personhood and relation, and ontology
and responsibility within history form core areas of inquiry.
Between Being and Time facilitates an auspicious dialogue between
philosophy and theology and, within the latter, between Catholic
and Orthodox thought. It will be of considerable interest to
scholars of Christian theology and philosophy of religion.
Dr. Giulio Maspero is a priest, theologian and physicist who in
this work embarks on a study of the Trinity--the Christian triune
God--and in a single narrative pieces together the classical
metaphysics, revealed truths and Patristic apologetic theology that
directed the development of Trinitarian dogma. Maspero views the
importance of this project from several perspectives. It connects
us both exegetically and in fellowship to Christianity's Jewish
roots and the living God of shared Scripture. It introduces the
reader to a deeper understanding of the historical development of
the Trinity, which is especially engaging given the formidable
minds and arguments involved in this history, particularly on the
part of the Cappadocian Fathers: Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory of
Nanzianzus and Basil the Great. Maspero also notes that knowing the
Trinity better will offer greater insight into papal descriptions
of the human family as necessarily rooted in a Trinitarian
foundation, a "communion of persons in the image of the union of
the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit." An approach to
Trinitarian theology often favors overly technical language, or
undue triteness. Maspero succeeds in leading both scholar and
student to see how the unfolding of the mystery of the Trinity and
its dogmatic development is a discovery of the "mystery from which
all true love flows" in history. This discovery is only possible
because of God's self-revelation and immanence--that is, his heart
and his "within." The revelation of his being wholly and eternally
Father and Son and the Love between them has made a more complete
unity know to humanity through the perfect unity of divine
communion. The foundation of all being and reality is this
communion of love, personal unity that is given in relation and not
in spite of relation. After a career of studying theology and
theoretical physics, Maspero is especially keen on emphasizing the
radical nature of this concept. It is an extension of Greek
philosophy but ripped open and assigned immeasurable new value in
communion and relation. The brevity of this work limits the amount
of citations and textual references given, and Maspero instead
urges the reader to study the book alongside Scripture. His manner
of writing respects the impossibility of speaking of God in his
immanence, but he nonetheless carves out a place for the Trinity in
the human intellect, a place where the Jewish and Christian God
might be encountered. As Maspero observes, truth is found in the
personal dimension, but "just as in the use of a map for a journey,
the cognitive grasp of the Trinity is to prevent us from getting
lost, to keep us from reducing and simplifying the Trinity into
something we understand merely on a natural level." A highlight of
this work is Maspero's reliance on Mary, Theotokos, in his
presentation of Trinitarian theology, the person who first opened
herself to this manner of thinking.
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