Aspects of Truth - A New Religious Metaphysics

List of contents

1. Receiving; 2. Exchanging; 3. Mattering; 4. Sensing; 5. Minding; 6. Realising; 7. Thinging; 8. Emptying; 9. Spiriting; 10. Conforming; Post-script.

About the author

Catherine Pickstock is the Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge. Her books include After Writing: On the Liturgical Consummation of Philosophy (1997), Thomas d'Aquin et la Quête Eucharistique (2001) and Repetition and Identity (2014). In addition, she was co-editor – with John Milbank and Graham Ward – of the influential collection Radical Orthodoxy: A New Theology (1998).

Summary

This bold new work offers a discussion of the topic of truth from simultaneously philosophical and theological perspectives. It argues for the value of a metaphysical approach to truth. This approach defends the notion that truth cannot be separated from what the author calls 'the reality of the thinking soul'.

Product details

• Authors: CATHERINE PICKSTOCK, Pickstock Catherine Pickstock, Catherine Pickstock, Catherine (University of Cambridge) Pickstock, Pickstock Catherine
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2020
• EAN: 9781108840323
• ISBN: 978-1-108-84032-3
• No. of pages: 340
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; RELIGION / Theology, Theology, Philosophy of religion, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Medieval Western philosophy, theology; philosophy; history of ideas