Theology and Difference: The Wound of Reason"... provocative and rewarding... " --Religious Studies Review "... a tour de force." --Theological Studies Theology and Difference reconceives the options confronting modern theology and investigates the disputed questions that underlie it. Pressing beyond the ready-made enlightenment offered by the subject-object framework, Walter Lowe uncovers a number of remarkable convergences between the contemporary philosopher Jacques Derrida and the early twentieth-century theologian Karl Barth. |
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Page 62
... facts and to transform all reality , all life , into an incomprehensible , idealess con- fusion of ' facts . ' The superstition of the fact is common to them all . ” 28 What must be dispelled , then , is precisely this " superstition of the ...
... facts and to transform all reality , all life , into an incomprehensible , idealess con- fusion of ' facts . ' The superstition of the fact is common to them all . ” 28 What must be dispelled , then , is precisely this " superstition of the ...
Page 83
... fact a whole , indeed the whole ; its entire significance springs from that fact . Nor are these difficulties from which God , the creator of the Chain , is exempt . At the very beginning , as if to set the terms from all that fol- lows ...
... fact a whole , indeed the whole ; its entire significance springs from that fact . Nor are these difficulties from which God , the creator of the Chain , is exempt . At the very beginning , as if to set the terms from all that fol- lows ...
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... fact that even in the effort at diminishment , we are not consistent . We apply a quasi - Freudian reductionism to those with whom we disagree , while reserving for ourselves the gentler ministrations of a humanistic psychology ...
... fact that even in the effort at diminishment , we are not consistent . We apply a quasi - Freudian reductionism to those with whom we disagree , while reserving for ourselves the gentler ministrations of a humanistic psychology ...
Contents
Barths Epistle to the Romans | 33 |
III | 48 |
Kant and the Sublation of Theodicy | 76 |
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