The One in the Many: A Contemporary Reconstruction of the God-World Relationship - Couverture souple

Bracken, Joseph A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0802848923 ISBN 13 : 9780802848925

Editeur : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2001

Synopsis

Classical notions of truth and objectivity have steadily eroded in the face of postmodernism. Meeting this challenge head-on, Joseph Bracken here reconstructs the metaphysical tradition of the West on solid new foundations. Drawing on the thought of Alfred North Whitehead, Ervin Laszlo, and Jürgen Habermas, Bracken presents a new philosophical perspective that roots the relationship between God and the world in community. Bracken first answers objections to the possibility of developing a new metaphysics in our postmodern age. He then lays out the "vertical" and "horizontal" dimensions of his new metaphysical scheme, a constructive perspective that results in a consciously communitarian understanding of the God-world relationship. The uniqueness of Bracken's position is its advocacy of a strictly "social ontology" in which the classical relationship of the One and the Many is reversed - not the transcendence of the One over the Many but its emergence out of the Many in dynamic relationship.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Joseph A. Bracken, S.J. (1930-2024) was professor emeritus of theology at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio. His publications included The One in the Many: A Contemporary Reconstruction of the God-World Relationship (Eerdmans).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co.
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0802848923
• ISBN 13: 9780802848925
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 246
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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