Paul S. Fiddes

Seeing the World and Knowing God: Hebrew Wisdom and Christian Doctrine in a Late-Modern Context

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Produktbeschreibung

This creates a Christian theology of wisdom for the present day, in discussion with two sets of conversation-partners: The writers of the 'wisdom literature' in ancient Israel and the Jewish community in Alexandria; and the philosophers and thinkers of the late-modern age, among them Derrida, Levinas, Kristeva, Ricoeur, and Arendt.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9780199644100
• ISBN-10: 0199644101
• Artikelnr.: 37501067

Autorenporträt

Paul S. Fiddes, Professor of Systematic Theology, University of Oxford and Director of Research, Regent's Park College, Oxford

Inhaltsangabe

I: Setting the Scene
1: The Cry for Wisdom
2: The Mood of the Late-Modern World
3: Where Were You? Self and Other
II: Wisdom as Observation and Participation
4: The Elusiveness of the World and the Limits of Wisdom
5: The Complexity of the World and the Extent of Wisdom
6: The Seeing Self and Wisdom as Observation
7: Hidden Wisdom: a Theology of Presence and Place
III: Wisdom in the World
8: Metaphor and Mystery in the Interpretation of Wisdom
9: Wisdom as a Search for the Sum of Things
10: The Text of the World and the Comprehensiveness of Wisdom
11: The Process of Learning and the Rejection of Wisdom
Coda
12: Attunement to Wisdom: from Observation to Participation