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What comes after the end of Christendom? Christianity has ceased to
function as the dominant force in society and yet the Christian
faith continues. How are we to understand Christianity in this
‘after’? Bringing into conversation seven unorthodox or
‘heretical’ continental philosophers, including Jan Patocka,
Jean-Luc Nancy, Gianni Vattimo and John D. Caputo, Martin Koci
re-centres the debates around philosophy’s so-called return to
religion to address the current ‘not-Christian, but not yet
non-Christian’ culture. In the modern context of increasing
secularization and pluralization, Christianity after Christendom
boldly proposes that Christians must embrace the demise of
Christianity as a meta-narrative and see their faith as an
existential mode of being-in-the-world. Whilst not denying the
religion’s history, this ‘after’ of Christianity emancipates
the discourse from the socio-historical focus on Christendom and
introduces new perspectives on Christianity as an embodied
religious tradition, as a way of being, even as a faithfulness to
the world. In dialogue with a broad range of philosophical
movements, including deconstruction, phenomenology, hermeneutics
and postmodern critiques of religion, this is a timely examination
of the present and future of post-Christendom Christianity.
This book gathers the European reception of John. D. Caputo's
proposal for a radical theology of our time. Philosophers and
theologians from within Europe respond to Caputo's attempt to
configure a less rigid, less dogmatic form of religion. These
scholars, in turn, receive responses by Caputo. This volume so aims
to strengthen the development of radical theology in Europe and
abroad.
Continental philosophers of religion have been engaging with
theological issues, concepts and questions for several decades,
blurring the borders between the domains of philosophy and
theology. Yet when Emmanuel Falque proclaims that both theologians
and philosophers need not be afraid of crossing the Rubicon - the
point of no return - between these often artificially separated
disciplines, he scandalised both camps. Despite the scholarly
reservations, the theological turn in French phenomenology has
decisively happened. The challenge is now to interpret what this
given fact of creative encounters between philosophy and theology
means for these disciplines. In this collection, written by both
theologians and philosophers, the question "Must we cross the
Rubicon?" is central. However, rather than simply opposing or
subscribing to Falque's position, the individual chapters of this
book interrogate and critically reflect on the relationship between
theology and philosophy, offering novel perspectives and redrawing
the outlines of their borderlands.
Continental philosophers of religion have been engaging with
theological issues, concepts and questions for several decades,
blurring the borders between the domains of philosophy and
theology. Yet when Emmanuel Falque proclaims that both theologians
and philosophers need not be afraid of crossing the Rubicon - the
point of no return - between these often artificially separated
disciplines, he scandalised both camps. Despite the scholarly
reservations, the theological turn in French phenomenology has
decisively happened. The challenge is now to interpret what this
given fact of creative encounters between philosophy and theology
means for these disciplines. In this collection, written by both
theologians and philosophers, the question "Must we cross the
Rubicon?" is central. However, rather than simply opposing or
subscribing to Falque's position, the individual chapters of this
book interrogate and critically reflect on the relationship between
theology and philosophy, offering novel perspectives and redrawing
the outlines of their borderlands.
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