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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; A Note on Context; Introduction: Stating the Problem; 1 Rebellion of the Gladiators: The Disappearance of Man's Open Nature; The reef; Humilitas occidit superbiam; A syllabus of errors; The bonfire of vanity; It would take a God: Aristotle's aporia in Nichomachean Ethics Book X; A gift upon a gift versus a philosophical fiction; The problem of matter and form in relation to nature and grace; The Christian hermeneutic of the Quinque Viae; 2 Calderon and the Chaste Anarchism; Calderon's phenomenological dialectic. |
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A story of supernatural vice and consentTendebantque manus ripae ulterioris amore; Secondary causes and the problem of pure nature; The two rocks; Ex Nihilo: An analysis of the metaphysical and moral nothings; The descent into hell: The anti-historical terminus of man's created nothing; The quest of the new metaphysics: Laughter in another room; Justina's chaste anarchism: Paideia and the serious play of the cross; The theologos of metapolitics; No untimely kindness; The epoché of silence; Naming the unnamed; The conjuror and the denaturing descent. |
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3 The A-Historical Temporality of the Chaste AnarchismThe searchers; The non-sequential order of historical existence; A phenomenology of indications: Three ages of the non-sequential; Hegel, Bonaventure, and memory; Nature, grace, and the political problem of futurity; Death and non-sequential temporality; The polis beyond maieutics: The necessary evil; Hegel's betrayal; Dispossession and prayer; Waiting for whom?; The devaluation of the non-sequential; Man's prepositional ambiguity; Lost in translation; Pennies from heaven; The cities of man and God: The way of the penitent. |
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Le Dieu Révolté: The impossibility of the Christian polisThe political silence of the descent into Hell; Home before dark; The Secular City: The dark at the top of the stairs; Separate tables; The man who isn't there; The political wager of the penitential gaze; The progressivist as ideologue versus the wayfarer as comprehensor; The tragicomedy of the Christian polis; 4 The Groundwork for the Christian Polis: Noli Me Tangere; Athens and Jerusalem: The case against metaphysics; The uninvited: Parmenides in chains; The unseen: An apotheosis of groundlessness. |
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Somewhere east of Eden: In Job's balancesThe awakening: All things are possible; The power of the keys: Christ and the metaphysics of freedom; The unforgiven: In the bull of Phalaris; Epilogue: The Polis and the Seven Last Words of Christ; The society of the friends of God: Ever-built on Good Friday; Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit; It is finished; I thirst; My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?; Woman, behold your son. Behold your mother; Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise; Father, forgive them, they know not what they do; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
"The discourse between nature and grace finds its linguistic and existential podium in the political condition of human beings. As Caitlin Smith Gilson shows, it is in this arena that the perennial territorial struggle of faith and reason, God and man, man and state, take place; and it is here that the understanding of the personal-as-political, as well as the political-as-personal, finds its meaning. And it is here, too, that the divine finds or is refused a home. Any discussion of "post-secular society" has its origins in this political dialogue between nature and grace, the resolution of which might determine not only a future post-secular society but one in which awe is re-united to affection, solidarity and fraternity. Smith Gilson questions whether the idea of pure nature antecedently disregards the fact that grace enters existence and that this accomplishes a conversion in the metaphysical/existential region of man's action and being. This conversion alters how man acts as an affective, moral, intellectual, social, political and spiritual being. State of nature theories, transformed yet retained in the broader metaphysical and existential implications of the Hegelian Weltgeist, are shown to be indebted to the ideological restrictedness of pure nature (natura pura) as providing the foremost adversary to any meaningful type of divine presence within the polis, as well as inhibiting the phenomenological facticity of man as an open nature."--Bloomsbury Publishing. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Christianity and politics.
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Christianity and politics. |
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Phenomenology.
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Phenomenology. |
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Political theology.
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Political theology. |
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Anarchism.
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Anarchism. |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Smith Gilson, Caitlin. Political dialogue of nature and grace 9781501308185 (DLC) 2015004395 (OCoLC)897016368 |
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9781501308208 electronic book |
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1501308203 electronic book |
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9781501308185 |
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1501308181 |
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9781501308192 (ePub) |
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150130819X |
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9781501308192 |
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