The Sense of Creation: Experience and the God Beyond - Couverture rigide

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Masterson, Patrick

 
9780754664260: The Sense of Creation: Experience and the God Beyond
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ISBN 10 : 0754664260 ISBN 13 : 9780754664260
Editeur : Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

What kind of experience might help to confirm and make sense of the puzzling belief in divine creation, so central to the main monotheistic religions? Anselm and Aquinas developed a philosophical understanding of 'Creation' as an asymmetrical relationship between the world and God i.e. that the world is really related to God in a relationship of total dependence but God is in no way really related to or modified by this created world. This idea of an asymmetrical relationship is the key concept unifying all aspects of this book which discusses the three main inter-related questions in a philosophical discussion about God -- the question of meaning, the question of existence, and the question of co-existence. The book explores various 'ciphers' of this asymmetrical relationship in our pre-philosophical lived experience. These are experiences such as that of the relationship between our knowledge and what we know, or our sense of obligation to our vulnerable neighbour. It argues that deciphering such experiences helps to make sense of the 'asymmetrical' relation of creation and that it in turn makes sense of them. Masterson argues further that this idea of asymmetrical relationship provides insight into the main questions of philosophy of religion and is an illuminating source of critical dialogue with contemporary Anglo/American and Phenomenological approaches in philosophy of religion.

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À propos de l'auteur

Patrick Masterson, M.A.(U.C.D.), Ph.D. (Louvain). Former Dean, Faculty of Philosophy (U.C.D.), Former President of U.C.D. and of the European University Institute, Florence.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0754664260
ISBN 13 
9780754664260
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
166
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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