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The Givenness of Desire

Human Subjectivity and the Natural Desire to See God

  • Hardback
  • 272 pages
  • Publisher: University of Toronto Press
  • 16.1 x 23.4 x 2.3 cm

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In The Givenness of Desire, Randall S. Rosenberg examines the human desire for God through the lens of Lonergan's "concrete subjectivity." Rosenberg engages and integrates two major scholarly developments: the tension between Neo-Thomists and scholars of Henri de Lubac over our natural desire to see God and the theological appropriation of the mimetic theory of Ren Girard, with an emphasis on the saints as models of desire. With Lonergan as an integrating thread, the author engages a variety of thinkers, including Hans Urs von Balthasar, Jean-Luc Marion, Ren Girard, James Alison, Lawrence Feingold, John Milbank, among others. The theme of concrete subjectivity helps to resist the tendency of equating too easily the natural desire for being with the natural desire for God without at the same time acknowledging the widespread distortion of desire found in the consumer culture that infects contemporary life. The Givenness of Desire investigates our paradoxical desire for God that is rooted in both the natural and supernatural.
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  • Author

    Randall S. Rosenberg

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    University of Toronto Press

  • Published

    June 2017

  • Weight

    545g

  • Page Count

    272

  • Dimensions

    16.1 x 23.4 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9781487500313

  • ISBN-10

    1487500319

  • Eden Code

    4499690

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