Between Being and Time: From Ontology to Eschatology

by Matthew Baker (Contribution by), David W. Fagerberg (Contribution by), Demetrios Harper (Contribution by), Isabel C. Troconis Iribarren (Contribution by), Logan M. Issac (Contribution by)

Overview

This book explores the relationship between being and time —between ontology and history— in the context of both Christian theology and philosophical inquiry. Each chapter tests the limits of this multifaceted thematic vis-à-vis a wide variety of sources: from patristics (Maximus the Confessor, Gregory of Nyssa) to philosophy (Kant, Kierkegaard, Heidegger) to modern theology (Berdyaev, Ratzinger, Fagerberg, Zizioulas, Yannaras, Loudovikos); from incarnation to eschatology; and from liturgy and ecclesiology to political theology. Among other topics, time and eternity, protology and eschatology, personhood and relation, and ontology and responsibility within history form core areas of inquiry. Between Being and Time facilitates an auspicious dialogue between philosophy and theology and, within the latter, between Catholic and Orthodox thought. It will be of considerable interest to scholars of Christian theology and philosophy of religion.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781978701816
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	02/07/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	330
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Andrew T.J. Kaethler is academic dean and assistant professor of theology at Catholic Pacific College.

Sotiris Mitralexis is assistant professor of philosophy at the City University of Istanbul and visiting research fellow at the University of Winchester.
Alicia D. Myers is associate professor of New Testament and Greek at Campbell University Divinity School.

Table of Contents

Part I. Rethinking Ontology within History


1. Ontology versus Fideism: Christianity's Accountability to History and Society

Haralambos Ventis


2. Ontology, History and Relation (schesis): Gregory of Nyssa's Epektasis

Giulio Maspero


3. Syn-odical Ontology: Maximus the Confessor's Proposition for Ontology within History and in the Eschaton

Dionysios Skliris


4. The Liturgy behind Liturgies: The Church's Metaphysical Form

David W. Fagerberg


5. The Kantian “Two-images” Problem, Its Lesson for Christian Eschatology, and the Path of Maximian Analogy

Demetrios Harper


Part II. Beyond Being and Time: Eschatological Hermeneutics


6. Zizioulas and Heidegger: “Eschatological Ontology” and Hermeneutics

Matthew Baker


7. What Does “Rising from the Dead” Mean? A Hermeneutics of Resurrection

Maxim Vasiljevic


8. Ecstatic or Reciprocal Meaningfulness?: Orthodox Eschatology between Theology, Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis

Nikolaos Loudovikos

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Editorial Reviews

It is in Christ that time and eternity, history and metaphysics, hold together. This Christological conviction—and the relational understanding of reality that it entails—unites Andrew T.J. Kaethler and Sotiris Mitralexis’s extraordinary collection of essays. By no means do the authors agree on every point. But the relational ontology of love on display in this book flows from a shared, ever-deepening movement into the triune God of history.

Hans Boersma

How we perceive reality and comport ourselves depends on our understanding of temporality. In this important volume, an ecumenical group of noteworthy scholars unfolds for the reader the rich implications of this claim for philosophy, theology, and indeed, for everyday life. A splendid achievement and rewarding read!

Jens Zimmermann

How we perceive reality and comport ourselves depends on our understanding of temporality. In this important volume, an ecumenical group of noteworthy scholars unfolds for the reader the rich implications of this claim for philosophy, theology, and indeed, for everyday life. A splendid achievement and rewarding read!

It is in Christ that time and eternity, history and metaphysics, hold together. This Christological conviction--and the relational understanding of reality that it entails--unites Andrew T.J. Kaethler and Sotiris Mitralexis's extraordinary collection of essays. By no means do the authors agree on every point. But the relational ontology of love on display in this book flows from a shared, ever-deepening movement into the triune God of history.

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