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Book SynopsisRights, Virtue, and Others in MacIntyre: Community After the Fall demonstrates that human rights are not anathema to MacIntyre's vision of practices, virtue, and tradition, but rather are necessary to stop that vision being appropriated in problematic ways and to help it take those outside one's own community seriously. This work brings MacIntyre into extended conversation with historians such as Brian Tierney and Charles Reid as well as with postcolonial thinkers and theologians such as Edward Said and Willie James Jenning, demonstrating that each has something to say to MacIntyre about the limits of virtue's vision. MacIntyre's readings of historical theologians, including Ockham and Vitoria, are brought into question, with each being shown to demonstrate how rights can act to complete, rather than undermine MacIntyre's program. What emerges is a MacIntyrean understanding of rights in which they act as historically discerned constraints against the excesses of institutional power.

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Book SynopsisDavid Schnasa Jacobsen is Professor Emeritus at Boston University School of Theology and Director of the Homiletical Theology Project. Scott Donahue-Martens teaches a variety of theology classes ranging from homiletics and hermeneutics to Hebrew Bible and pastoral care.

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Book SynopsisThis volume collects seventeen new essays by well-established and junior scholars on the philosophical relevance of metaxological philosophy and its main proponent, William Desmond. The volume mines metaxological thought for its salience in contemporary discussions in Continental philosophy, specifically in the fields of metaphysics, philosophy of religion, ethics, and aesthetics. Among others, topics under discussion include the goodness of being, the existence and nature of God, and the aesthetic dimensions of human becoming. Interest in metaxological philosophy has been on the rise in recent years, and this volume provides both a practical introduction and thorough engagements with it by experts in the field. The volume concludes with a series of responses by William Desmond on the issues raised by the contributors.Table of Contents1. Introduction Part 1: Being, Knowing, and Intimacy 2. Number and the Between, by John Milbank 3. True Being and Being True: Metaxology and the Retrieval of Metaphysics, by D.C. Schindler 4. Hermeneutical Selving as Metaxological Selving: Bridging the Perceived Gap between Theological Hermeneutics and Metaphysics, by Daniel Minch 5. Metaxology and New Realist Philosophy, by Sandra Lehmann Part 2: Absolute Being and Talking God 6. The Metaxology of the Divine Names, by Brendan Thomas Sammon 7. Metaxologizing Our God-Talk: Desmond, Kearney, and the Divine Between, by Mark F. Novak 8. Espousing Intimacies: Mystics and the Metaxological, by Patrick Ryan Cooper Part 3: Autonomy, Porosity, and Goodness 9. Evil: From Phenomenology to Thought, by Cyril O’Regan 10. Retrieving the Primal Ethos of Life: (Bio)Ethics in the Love of Being, by Roberto Dell’Oro 11. Silence, Excess, and Autonomy, by Dennis Vanden Auweele 12. Reactivating Christian Metaphysical Glory in the Wake of its Eclipse: William Desmond contra Giorgio Agamben, by Philip Gonzales Part 4: On Wholeness, Hegel and Pan(en)theism 13. The Real and the Glitter: Apropos William Desmond’s Hegel’s God, by Sander Griffioen 14. Transcendence in Metaxology and Sophiology, by Josephien van Kessel 15. Panentheism and Hegelian Controversies, by Philip A. Gottschalk Part 5: Creation, Embodied Being and Beauty 16. The Gift of Creation, by Richard Kearney 17. On Speaking the Amen: Augustinian Soliloquy in Shakespeare’s Metaxu, by Renée Kohler-Ryan 18. Metaxology and Environmental Ethics: On the Ethical Response to the Aesthetics of Nature as Other in the Between, by Alexandra Romanyshyn 19. Responding Metaxologically, by William Desmond

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Book SynopsisPart I Historical Overview of the Notions of Person and Logos.- Chapter 1 On the Notion of Person and its Development in Light of the Concept of Logos.- Part II The Notion of Logos.- Chapter 2 Logos in Ancient Greek: A Philological Inquiry.- Part III The Notion of Logos - The Philosophical and Biblical Context of the Notion of Logos.- Chapter 3 Sophist or Philosopher? Manipulation of Logos in Gorgias' On Non-Existence and Encomium of Helen.- Chapter 4 Job, and the adam: the Hermeneutics of Job's Interpretations of the Primeval History.- Chapter 5 Logos in the Prologue of John: A Philological Inquiry.- Chapter 6 In the Beginning Was Discourse: Erasmus' Translation, Academic Controversy, and Popular Reaction.- Part IV  The Notion of Logos - Breaking off the Logos of Reality.- Chapter 7 The Cosmological Argument: Leibniz's Unlimited, and Kant's Limited, Rationality.- Chapter 8 The Loss of Reason: The Radical Philosophes' Attack against Rational Religion and Kierkegaard's Religious Anti-Rationalism.- Part V The Notion of Logos - An Attempt to Restore Unity Based on the Theory of Language.- Chapter 9 Charles Taylor on Constitutive Theory of Language and Self-Interpreting Animals.- Part VI Understanding the Person - The Notion of Person at the Root of Three Traditions.- Chapter 10 The Prosopological Reading of the Term p??s?p?? persona in the Works of Origen and Tertullian.- Chapter 11 Soma and Gufa: Rabbinic Perception of a Person.- Chapter 12 The Apparition of the Concept of Person in the Beginning of Arabic Theology.- Part VII Understanding the Person - Metaphysical Approaches.- Chapter 13 Individual, Self-Mastery, and the Common Good: Person as a Rational Subsistent in Aquinas.- Chapter 14 Sui Dominium, the Metaphysical Act Constitutive of the Person. An Aristotelian-Thomist Metaphysics Update.- Part VIII Understanding the Person - The Personalist Perspective.- Chapter 15 Person and Rationality.- Chapter 16 The Person in Personalism.

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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction.- Part One: Energy Policies & Material Practices.- Chapter 2: Nature/Culture, Spirit/Matter, and Fuel/Energy: Toward an Energy Critical Materialism.- Chapter 3: A Future No One Wants: Modeling Shared Socioeconomic Pathways and Climate Change with the Marxian Critique of Political Economy.- Part Two: Contesting Populist Nationalism in Religion and Politics.- Chapter 4: Authoritarian Civil Sphere, Populism and Secular Sectarianism.- Chapter 5: Ecological Entanglements: Imagining a Land-Based Judaism.- Chapter 6: Towards a Possibility of a Political Theology at the Limits of Liberal Modernity Following Ambedkar.- Part Three: Political Theology, Energy Sovereignty, and Life.- Chapter 7: The Exuberance of Life: A Note on Schelling’s Political Theology.- Chapter 8: Learning to Live by Learning to Die: Energy, Sovereignty, and Transformation in the Thinking of Clayton Crockett.- Chapter 9: Apocalypse, Energy, and Change: Towards a Political theology of Energy.- Part Four: Spiritual-Material Visions Beyond East and West.- Chapter 10: Decoloniality & Planetary Materialism: Supplementing Deleuze’s Radical Grammar with the Alterity of Sankhya.- Chapter 11: A Tantric Rejoinder to Energy Humanities and Analytic Idealism.

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Book SynopsisSinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories, theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the study of religion. Topics include (among others) category formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology, myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism, structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the history of the discipline.

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Book SynopsisThe series MISCELLANEA MEDIAEVALIA was founded by Paul Wilpert in 1962 and since then has presented research from the Thomas Institute of the University of Cologne. The cornerstone of the series is provided by the proceedings of the biennial Cologne Medieval Studies Conferences, which were established over 50 years ago by Josef Koch, the founding director of the Institute. The interdisciplinary nature of these conferences is reflected in the proceedings. The MISCELLANEA MEDIAEVALIA gather together papers from all disciplines represented in Medieval Studies - medieval history, philosophy, theology, together with art and literature, all contribute to an overall perspective of the Middle Ages.

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Book SynopsisAs yet, a good German translation does not exist of this pivotal work, nor is an introduction available whichexplains the central topics in a comprehensible yet authoritative manner. This gap is filled by the present work which uses key themes from Thomasian philosophy (and theology) to provide an introduction to the overall conception of the Summa theologiae. The review of the present state of research on the Summa theologiae provides a comprehensive handbook particularly suited for university teaching. It is designed not only for the specialist reader but equally for those with a general interest in the subject.Table of ContentsJ. A. Aertsen, Die Rede von Gott: Wissenschaftslehre und Transzendentalienlehre · S. MacDonald, Die Semantik der Namen Gottes · G. Emery, Gotteslehre: De Deo uno et trino· R. te Velde , Schöpfungslehre und Partizipation· W. Goris, Erkenntnislehre · A. Speer, Die Lehre vom letzten Ziel und vom Glück · K. Mertens, Die Handlungslehre · A. Brungs, Die Lehre von den 'passiones' · C. Steel, Allgemeine Tugendlehre und Kardinaltugenden · G. Wieland, Die Lehre vom Gesetz · J. Wippel, Natur und Gnade · A. Zimmermann, Glaube und Wissen · J. McEvoy, Liebe und Freundschaft · S. Ernst, Christliche und philosophische Tugendlehre anhand einiger ausgewählter Beispiele · M. Gormann, Christologie: Person und Natur · K. Hedwig, Die Sakramente: Zeichen und naturale Bindung des Heils

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Book SynopsisFriedrich Scheiermacher's "Brief Account" ("Kurze Darstellung"), published, as was his "Christian Faith", in two seperate editions in 1811 and 1830, summarizes his "whole view at that time of the study of theology". In four sections (introduction, philosophical theology, historical theology and practical theology) it develops Scheiermacher's overall conception of theology as a university discipline together with its sub-disciplines. It achieves this by giving a formal definition of the functions of theology both as a whole and in its parts. The "Brief Account" shows the great force of Scheiermacher's systematic thought and is basic to the study of his understanding of theology. The study edition in the "de Gruyter Texts" series is based on the Complete Critical Edition (KGA I/6). It shows the pagination and line numbering of the KGA, so that it is possible to quote by the KGA. The volume opens with a comprehensive introduction by Dirk Schmid.

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Book SynopsisThe Hatata Inquiries are two extraordinary texts of African philosophy composed in Ethiopia in the 1600s. Written in the ancient African language of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), these explorations of meaning and reason are deeply considered works of rhetoric. They advocate for women’s rights and rail against slavery. They offer ontological proofs for God and question biblical commands while delighting in the language of Psalms. They advise on right living. They put reason above belief, desire above asceticism, love above sectarianism, and the natural world above the human. They explore the nature of being as well as the nature of knowledge, the human, ethics, and the human relation with the divine. They are remarkable examples of something many assume doesn’t exist: early written African thought. This accessible English translation of the Hatata Inquiries, along with extensive footnotes documenting the cultural and historical context and the work’s many textual allusions, enables all to read it and scholars to teach with it. The Hatata Inquiries are essential to understanding the global history of philosophy, being among the early works of rational philosophy. The book includes a translation by Ralph Lee with Mehari Worku and Wendy Laura Belcher of the Hatata Zara Yaqob and the Hatata Walda Heywat. The appendices by Jeremy R. Brown provide information on the scribal interventions in and the differences between the manuscripts of the two Hatatas. The book also includes a map, chronology, summary of the translation principles, and a discussion of the authorship debate about the Hatata Inquiries.

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