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In praise of heteronomy : making room for revelation / Merold Westphal.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Indiana series in the philosophy of religionPublisher: Bloomington, Indiana, USA : Indiana University Press, [2017]Copyright date: �2017Description: 1 online resource (xxvi, 241 pages .)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780253026613
  • 025302661X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 210 23
LOC classification:
  • BL51 .W444 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Executive and legislative autonomy -- Spinoza's theology -- Spinoza's hermeneutics -- Kant's theology -- Kant's hermeneutics I -- Kant's hermeneutics II -- Hegel's theology I -- Hegel's theology II -- Hegel's hermeneutics -- The inevitability of heteronomy -- Heteronomy as freedom.
Summary: "Recognizing the essential heteronomy of postmodern philosophy of religion, Merold Westphal argues against the assumption that human reason is universal, neutral, and devoid of presupposition. Instead, Westphal contends that any philosophy is a matter of faith and the philosophical encounter with theology arises from the very act of thinking. Relying on the work of Spinoza, Kant, and Hegel, Westphal discovers that their theologies render them mutually incompatible and their claims to be the voice of autonomous and universal resaon look dubious. Westphal grapples with this plural nature of human thought in the philosophy of religion and he forwards the idea that any appeal to the divine must rest on a historical and phenomenological analysis."-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Executive and legislative autonomy -- Spinoza's theology -- Spinoza's hermeneutics -- Kant's theology -- Kant's hermeneutics I -- Kant's hermeneutics II -- Hegel's theology I -- Hegel's theology II -- Hegel's hermeneutics -- The inevitability of heteronomy -- Heteronomy as freedom.

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"Recognizing the essential heteronomy of postmodern philosophy of religion, Merold Westphal argues against the assumption that human reason is universal, neutral, and devoid of presupposition. Instead, Westphal contends that any philosophy is a matter of faith and the philosophical encounter with theology arises from the very act of thinking. Relying on the work of Spinoza, Kant, and Hegel, Westphal discovers that their theologies render them mutually incompatible and their claims to be the voice of autonomous and universal resaon look dubious. Westphal grapples with this plural nature of human thought in the philosophy of religion and he forwards the idea that any appeal to the divine must rest on a historical and phenomenological analysis."-- Provided by publisher.

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