Joseph A. Bracken

The One in the Many

A Contemporary Reconstruction of the God-World Relationship

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Produktbeschreibung

Classical notions of truth and objectivity have steadily eroded in the face of postmodernism. Meeting this challenge head-on, Joseph Bracken here reconstructs the metaphysical tradition of the West on solid new foundations. Drawing on the thought of Alfred North Whitehead, Ervin Laszlo, and Jürgen Habermas, Bracken presents a new philosophical perspective that roots the relationship between God and the world in community. Bracken first answers objections to the possibility of developing a new metaphysics in our postmodern age. He then lays out the "vertical" and "horizontal" dimensions of his new metaphysical scheme, a constructive perspective that results in a consciously communitarian understanding of the God-world relationship. The uniqueness of Bracken's position is its advocacy of a strictly "social ontology" in which the classical relationship of the One and the Many is reversed - not the transcendence of the One over the Many but its emergence out of the Many in dynamic relationship.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780802848925
• ISBN-10: 0802848923
• Artikelnr.: 21870008

Autorenporträt

Joseph A. Bracken, S.J. (1930-2024) was professor emeritus of theology at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio. His publications included The One in the Many: A Contemporary Reconstruction of the God-World Relationship (Eerdmans).