God and Being - An Enquiry

Zusatztext Here are imaginative and often elegant reflections which will strike chords! jog memories! and provoke reciprocal reflection. Informationen zum Autor George Pattison is Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and a Canon of Christ Church Cathedral. He has taught at the University of Aarhus and is a vising professor at the University of Copenhagen. For ten years he was Dean of Chapel at King's College, Cambridge and before that was a parish priest for 14 years. He studied at Edinburgh and Durham. He has written extensively on modern theology and philosophy of religion, with special emphasis on Kierkegaard and existentialism, including Heidegger and Dostoevsky, as well as on theology and the arts. Klappentext Speaking of God in terms of Being has become one of the most hotly contested topics in the philosophy of religion of the last twenty years. Pattison offers a response that takes into account the insights of postmodern thinking whilst attempting to provide a new basis for religious language and life. Zusammenfassung Speaking of God in terms of Being has become one of the most hotly contested topics in the philosophy of religion of the last twenty years. Pattison offers a response that takes into account the insights of postmodern thinking whilst attempting to provide a new basis for religious language and life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1 Being! Salvation! and the Knowledge of God; 2 Presence and Distance; 4 Time and Space; 4 Language; 5 Selves and Others; 6 Embodiment; 7 Possibility! Nothingness! and the Gift of Being

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• Authors: George Pattison, George (Lady Margaret Professor of Divin Pattison, George (Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford) Pattison, Professor George Pattison
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.03.2013
• EAN: 9780199673971
• ISBN: 978-0-19-967397-1
• No. of pages: 362
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Theologie, Religionsphilosophie, Christentum, Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, comparative religion, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, RELIGION / Philosophy, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Western philosophy from c 1800, Philosophy of religion, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -