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A theological exploration of human nature engaging with modernist and postmodernist thought, and emphasising the reality and significance of our physical being.
Radical embodiment' refers to an epistemology and anthropology fundamentally rooted in our bodies as always in correlation with our natural and social environments. All human rationality, meaning, and value arise not only instrumentally but also substantively from this embodiment in the world. Radical embodiment reacts against Enlightenment mind-body dualism, as well as its monistic offshoots, including the physicalism that reduces everything to component matter/energy at the expense of subjectivity and meaning. It also rejects certain forms of postmodernism that reinscribe modern dualisms. David H. Nikkel develops and explores this perspective of 'radical embodiment' by examining varieties of modern and postmodern theology, and the nature and role of tradition - in terms of linguistic and non-linguistic experience, the religion and science dialogue on the nature of consciousness, and the immanent and transcendent aspects of God.
Radical embodiment' refers to an epistemology and anthropology fundamentally rooted in our bodies as always in correlation with our natural and social environments. All human rationality, meaning, and value arise not only instrumentally but also substantively from this embodiment in the world. Radical embodiment reacts against Enlightenment mind-body dualism, as well as its monistic offshoots, including the physicalism that reduces everything to component matter/energy at the expense of subjectivity and meaning. It also rejects certain forms of postmodernism that reinscribe modern dualisms. David H. Nikkel develops and explores this perspective of 'radical embodiment' by examining varieties of modern and postmodern theology, and the nature and role of tradition - in terms of linguistic and non-linguistic experience, the religion and science dialogue on the nature of consciousness, and the immanent and transcendent aspects of God.
Price: $29.99
Pages: 200
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: James Clarke
Publication Date:
26 May 2011
Trim Size: 9.02 X 6.02 in
ISBN: 9780227173534
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
RELIGION / Christian Theology / Systematic, Christianity, Theology
This is an interesting book that engages with a number of disciplines to bring together an argument that is radical embodiment and to situate it within the current theological world. It is a loud call for recognising intersubjectivity as a theological given which seems to me to be a message that needs to be repeated many times in these days.
— Lisa Isherwood
Almost effortlessly Nikkel weaves together studies from linguistics, zoology, neurobiology, art history, and theological revelation. These seemingly disparate topics work surprisingly well together to show the significance of the body in different ways of being. ... More than anything else, the posing of his final question demonstrates that the goal of the book is to challenge what readers think they know. In this, it is undeniably a success.
— Brooke J. Nelson
...[Nikkel] never tries to disguise that the motivation for his thinking it 'trusting our religious demands' and 'trusting our bodily naturalness'. That makes his argument very personable, vey understandable - and sometime very suggestive...
— Christina Aus der Au
— Lisa Isherwood
Almost effortlessly Nikkel weaves together studies from linguistics, zoology, neurobiology, art history, and theological revelation. These seemingly disparate topics work surprisingly well together to show the significance of the body in different ways of being. ... More than anything else, the posing of his final question demonstrates that the goal of the book is to challenge what readers think they know. In this, it is undeniably a success.
— Brooke J. Nelson
...[Nikkel] never tries to disguise that the motivation for his thinking it 'trusting our religious demands' and 'trusting our bodily naturalness'. That makes his argument very personable, vey understandable - and sometime very suggestive...
— Christina Aus der Au
Preface
Discerning the Spirits of Modernity and Postmodernity
Postmodernism(s) and Tradition
The Body in Tradition; Tradition as Body
Radical Embodiment in Light of the Science and Religion Dialogue
The Postmodern Spirit and the Status of God
Radical Embodiment and Transcendence
Bibliography
Index
Discerning the Spirits of Modernity and Postmodernity
Postmodernism(s) and Tradition
The Body in Tradition; Tradition as Body
Radical Embodiment in Light of the Science and Religion Dialogue
The Postmodern Spirit and the Status of God
Radical Embodiment and Transcendence
Bibliography
Index