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While the revelation of God's name is a central theological topic,
its ethical and political significance are often overlooked. In a
world filled with violence committed 'in the name of God', how
might invoking God's name enable peace, community, and hope? The
Politics of Praise argues that the redemptive potential of naming
God lies in how this event transforms friendship. It breaks new
ground by tracing the connections between naming God and friendship
in the work of Thomas Aquinas and Jacques Derrida. Advancing an
innovative reading of Aquinas on the divine names, the book
explores how Dionysius' mysticism shapes Aquinas' appropriation of
Aristotle's ethics, then retraces how Derrida's reading of religion
renders possible an alternative conception of friendship. These
explorations lead to a surprising convergence between Aquinas and
Derrida on the conditions of friendship.
This book is a study of religious practices of listening in the
Boston area. Through ethnographic study of a variety of religious
communities, with an extensive focus on Quaker listening, it argues
that religious practice shapes our habits of listening by creating
a plurality of regimes of listening across Boston's landscape.
These practices, moreover, cultivate specific dispositions, as well
as distinct patterns of religious and democratic virtues. Through
these dispositions and virtues, religious listening facilitates a
diverse range of forms of democratic engagement, and varied
contributions to the pursuit of social justice. William Young
provides an innovative interpretation of these religious practices.
It argues that insofar as religious listening helps practitioners
to extend and amplify their listening, and makes them more
responsive to their communities, it creates a social mode of
embodied receptivity and agency. Through both their listening and
their actions, these groups express their conceptions of divinity,
embodying divine attributes and activity within the sociopolitical
realm-serving as God's ears within the world. It is by interpreting
their practices as creating modes of social discipline, reception,
and agency that the book explicates the full significance of
religious listening, in its adaptations and extensions of our aural
capacities, and their implications for sociopolitical life.
While the revelation of God's name is a central theological topic,
its ethical and political significance are often overlooked. In a
world filled with violence committed 'in the name of God', how
might invoking God's name enable peace, community, and hope? The
Politics of Praise argues that the redemptive potential of naming
God lies in how this event transforms friendship. It breaks new
ground by tracing the connections between naming God and friendship
in the work of Thomas Aquinas and Jacques Derrida. Advancing an
innovative reading of Aquinas on the divine names, the book
explores how Dionysius' mysticism shapes Aquinas' appropriation of
Aristotle's ethics, then retraces how Derrida's reading of religion
renders possible an alternative conception of friendship. These
explorations lead to a surprising convergence between Aquinas and
Derrida on the conditions of friendship.
This collection introduces readers to the philosophical
interpretation of Scripture, specifically within American
Philosophy. The purpose of the collection concerns starting a
conversation about the practice and task of the philosophical
interpretation of Scripture. Reflections on the philosophical
interpretation of Scripture have been treated more as a
"conversation-stopper" than a conversation-starter within the
American academy. To start such a conversation, this collection
offers substantive accounts of the role of Scripture in the
philosophical thought of fifteen American philosophers: Jane
Addams, Henry Bugbee, Stanley Cavell, John Dewey, Jonathan Edwards,
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, William James, Martin Luther
King, Jr., Charles Sanders Peirce, Josiah Royce, Richard Rorty,
George Santayana, Henry David Thoreau, and Cornel West.
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