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Continental Philosophy and Theology

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Continental philosophy underwent a ‘return to religion’ or a ‘theological turn’ in the late 20th century. And yet any conversation between continental philosophy and theology must begin by addressi...
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  • 17 May 2018
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Continental philosophy underwent a ‘return to religion’ or a ‘theological turn’ in the late 20th century. And yet any conversation between continental philosophy and theology must begin by addressing the perceived distance between them: that one is concerned with destroying all normative, metaphysical order (continental philosophy’s task) and the other with preserving religious identity and community in the face of an increasingly secular society (theology’s task). Colby Dickinson argues in Continental Philosophy and Theology rather that perhaps such a tension is constitutive of the nature of order, thinking and representation which typically take dualistic forms and which might be rethought, though not necessarily abolished. Such a shift in perspective even allows one to contemplate this distance as not opting for one side over the other or by striking a middle ground, but as calling for a nondualistic theology that measures the complexity and inherently comparative nature of theological inquiry in order to realign theology’s relationship to continental philosophy entirely.
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Price: $94.00
Pages: 106
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences
Publication Date: 17 May 2018
ISBN: 9789004361270
Format: Paperback
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Colby Dickinson, Ph.D. (2012), Catholic University of Leuven, is Associate Professor of Theology at Loyola University Chicago. He is the author of many books and articles, including Words Fail: Theology, Poetry, and the Challenge of Representation (Fordham, 2016).