Friendship As Sacred Knowing - Overcoming Isolation

Samuel Kimbriel advocates a return to an antique and particularly Christian philosophical habit--"the befriending of wisdom"--in which knowledge is taken to be a kind of communion with God.

List of contents

• Acknowledgements


• Abbreviations


• Introduction


• Part I - Friendship and disengagement


• 1: Friendship and isolation


• 2: Friendship, virtue and contemplation


• Part II - Friendship and enquiry: Beyond disengagement


• 3: Sacred knowing and indwelling love


• 4: The porous enquirer


• 5: The veiled path: Enquiry, agency and desire


• 6: Human finitude and the paradox of enquiry


• 7: Friendship and deification


• Conclusion


• Bibliography


• Primary texts


• Secondary texts


• Index

About the author

Samuel Kimbriel is a teaching fellow in philosophical theology at the University of Nottingham. His research focuses on questions of metaphysical realism, with a particular interest in perception and intellection. He holds an MPhil and PhD from the University of Cambridge.

Summary

Samuel Kimbriel advocates a return to an antique and particularly Christian philosophical habit--"the befriending of wisdom"--in which knowledge is taken to be a kind of communion with God.

Additional text

This book will be of interest to a great variety of scholars in theology and philosophy ... elegantly proportioned [and] constructive.

Product details

• Authors: Samuel Kimbriel, Samuel (Teaching Fellow in Philosophical Theology Kimbriel
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.2014
• EAN: 9780199363988
• ISBN: 978-0-19-936398-8
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Practical theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Religious, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Philosophy, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, History of Religion, Philosophy of religion, Religious aspects of sexuality, gender and relationships, RELIGION / Christian Living / Family & Relationships, Christian aspects of sexuality, gender & relationships