Maurice Blondel

Philosophical Exigencies of Christian Religion

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Produktbeschreibung

Philosophical Exigencies of Christian Religion is a translation of two of Maurice Blondel's essays. Blondel's thinking played a significant role in the deliberations and arguments of the Second Vatican Council. Although a towering figure in the history of twentieth-century Catholic thought, the later systematic works of Maurice Blondel have been largely inaccessible in the English-speaking world. Oliva Blanchette, who previously translated Blondel's early groundbreaking work Action (1893), now offers the first English translation of Blondel's final work to be published, Philosophical Exigencies of Christian Religion. This work of transition from mere philosophy to a consideration of Christian religion consists of two main essays, The Christian Sense and the shorter On Assimilation, followed by a Reconsideration and Global View and an Appendix: Clarifications and Admonitions written in answer to an inquiry by a young scholar about method. The first essay explores the Christian sense of the spiritual life and how Christian religion, even as supernatural, can come under the purview of critical philosophy. The second essay examines the move from analogy to assimilation in speaking of the Christian life. Blondel tackles the question: How does the human spirit combine with the divine spirit in such a way that neither is lost in the process? Philosophical Exigencies of Christian Religion is critical for understanding Blondel's thought. This high-quality translation and Blanchette's concise preface will appeal not only to philosophers and theologians but also to spiritual writers and directors of spiritual retreats in the Ignatian and Jesuit traditions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 407g
• ISBN-13: 9780268200466
• ISBN-10: 0268200467
• Artikelnr.: 60980094

Autorenporträt

Maurice Blondel (1861-1949) was a philosopher born in Dijon, France, and educated at the École Normale Supérieure. Blondel defended his thesis, L'action, in 1893 at the Sorbonne. Blondel at first was refused a university position on the grounds of having taken an improperly religious position in his philosophy but finally received a professorship in Aix in 1897. He was the author of a number of books, including Philosophical Exigencies of Christian Religion (University of Notre Dame Press, 2021).

Inhaltsangabe

Translator's Introduction
Part 1. The Christian Sense
Foreword
Introduction
1. The Historical Aspect: What is Specific About It in Christian Religion
2. The Intellectual Aspect: And the Permanent Unity of the Christian Spirit
3. The Internal Proofs and the Spiritually Vivifying Aspect of Christian
Religion
4. Is it Possible to Define the Christian Spirit by Resolving It Back to a
Principle of Essential Unity?
5. On the Enabling Method for Acceding to the Domain Where Lives the
Indissoluble Unity of the Christian Spirit
6. The Catholic Unity
7. The Inventions of Charity and the Supernatural
8. The Destiny Offered and Imposed on Man
9. Synthetic Exploration and Progressive March Starting from the Generative
Idea of Christian Religion
10. Unity of the Work of Creation for the External Glory of God through
Supernatural Elevation
11. The Conditions for Realizing the Divine Plan for Surmounting the
Difficulty of Uniting Two Incommensurables, the Creator and the Creature:
on the one hand, the Invention of Divine Charity to Cross the Abyss through
the "Verbum Caro Factum" [the Word Made Flesh] and the Hypostatic Union; on
the other hand, the Testing Imposed on Man by the Transformative Union.
12. The Doctrine of the Supernatural Considered under its Triple
Metaphysical, Ascetic and Mystical Aspect
13. How the Order of Grace Completes the Natural Order and Forms with it in
Us a Life and a Personality that is Truly One
14. The Union of Nature and Supernature in the Practical Order Itself
15. The Philosophical Problem of Sanctity
16. The Proof of Christian Religion through the Idea and the Word itself:
of Catholicism
17. The Character of Apostolicity in Catholicism
Conclusion
Part 2. On Assimilation as Fulfillment and Transposition of the Theory of
Analogy
Foreword
1. Twofold Traditional Sense of the Word "Assimilation"
2. Getting Beyond the Metaphors That Risk Masking the True Problem
3. Is the Issue One of a Simple Ideal Participation or Do We Have to
Conceive of a Truly Vital Participation?
4. Irreplaceable Role of a Laborious Trial of Parturition for the "New
Birth"
5. Paradox of the Tribulations of the Just and Scandal of the Sufferings
Judged According to Our Human Views
6. Supreme Objection: The Problem of Evil in Its Most Universal Form
7. The Only Appeasing Solution of an Assimilative Theogony by Way of
Renunciation and Even Death
8. Exigencies of Divine Charity
Part 3. Reconsideration and Global View: Circumincession of the Problems
and Unity of Perspectives
1. Twofold Inspiration of Our Inquiries
2. Objections and Contradictions through Which the Enlightened and
Enlightening Way Is Opened
3. How Philosophical Thought Can Resolve the Enigma of Our Indeclinable
Destiny
Part 4. Appendix: Clarifications and Admonitions
1. Remarks on Our Method of Implication against the Abuses of Abstractive
and Constructive Methods
2. Some Precisions on Terminology
3. On the Relation between the Philosophical Trilogy and the Study on
Philosophy and the Christian Spirit
4. Appeasing Clarities for Reason Projected by Revelation