Author
Professor Patrick Masterson
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published
October 2013
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Author
Professor Patrick Masterson
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published
October 2013
£134.69
Free UK Delivery
Available - Usually dispatched within 4 days
Approaching God
Today's Price £134.69
Approaching God explores the ways in which phenomenology, metaphysics and theological enquiry can throw light upon each other. This is a matter of great interest and importance to the future of philosophical theology and the philosophy of religion. What, if anything, has philosophical reflection about God to contribute to Christian theology? And if indeed philosophy plays a positive role in theological reflection - what kind of philosophy? The first-person philosophical perspective of phenomenology or the objective philosophical perspective of metaphysics? Masterson devotes three chapters to, respectively, phenomenological, metaphysical, and theological approaches to God. Each are seen as animated by a first principle from which a comprehensive account of everything is said to follow - 'Human Consciousness' in the case of phenomenology; 'Being' in the case of metaphysics; and 'God' in the case of theology.
Although philosophers and theologians such as Ricoeur, Levinas, Kearney, Caputo, Barth are considered briefly, Approaching God essentially provides a dialogue about theological and theistic issues between the phenomenological approach of the leading French Christian phenomenologist Jean-Luc Marion and the realist metaphysical approach of Aquinas. Masterson maintains that all three approaches are needed in trying to speak appropriately about God - they are irreducible but complementary.
Author
Professor Patrick Masterson
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published
October 2013
Weight
386g
Page Count
224
Dimensions
130 x 214 x 11 mm
ISBN
9781623563721
ISBN-10
1623563720
Eden Code
4068283
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Author/Creator: Professor Patrick Masterson
ISBN: 9781623563721
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Release Date: October 2013
Weight: 386g
Dimensions: 130 x 214 x 11 mm
Eden Code: 4068283