A Theology Of Compassion

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The wide-scale rejection of metaphysics today has become the test of the postmodern. In this volume, Oliver Davies argues for a renewal of metaphysics, as the language of createdness, based not in a return to outmoded concepts of essence, but in a dynamic new understanding of ontology as narrataive and performance. His repairing of the western metaphysical tradition is grounded both in the divine self-naming in Exodus which, for the rabbis, identified God's presence in the world with God's compassionate acts, and...
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The wide-scale rejection of metaphysics today has become the test of the postmodern. In this volume, Oliver Davies argues for a renewal of metaphysics, as the language of createdness, based not in a return to outmoded concepts of essence, but in a dynamic new understanding of ontology as narrataive and performance. His repairing of the western metaphysical tradition is grounded both in the divine self-naming in Exodus which, for the rabbis, identified God's presence in the world with God's compassionate acts, and in the compassionate resistance of Etty Hillesum and Edith Stein to the violence of the Holocaust. Building upon a new metaphysics of compassion which is attentive to the deepest histories of the contemporary world, Davies offers a renewed systematic theology of divine speech and relation, focused in Jesus Christ who, as the triadic "Word" of God, speaks creatively at the heart of human culture and action, and, as the redeeming "Compassion" of God, regenerates the world.
Oliver Davies is Reader in Theology at the University of Wales, Lampeter. His previous publications have been mainly in the area of medieval mysticism, especially Meister Eckhart, and Celtic Christianity.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780334028338
  • Publisher: SCM Press Limited
  • Publication date: 11/9/2010
  • Pages: 400
  • Product dimensions: 0.82 (w) x 9.21 (h) x 6.14 (d)

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
A Kenotic Ontology 1
1 Towards a New Metaphysics 3
Refiguring metaphysics 6
The ontology of compassion 10
The priority of compassion 16
2 The Compassionate Self 24
Deconstructing the phenomenological subject 24
Three narratives 25
A transcendental analytic of compassion 29
Excursus 37
B Narrative of Existence 47
Introduction: The Grammar of Ontology 49
3 Being and Oneness: Hierarchy and Cult 56
Parmenides 56
Plotinus 58
Meister Eckhart 62
Benedict de Spinoza 64
Martin Heidegger 69
4 Being and Nothingness: Creation and Community 74
Augustine and the Platonists 75
Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle 81
Soren Kierkegaard and Hegelians 88
5 Being and Consciousness: Freedom and Limit 96
Rene Descartes 98
Immanuel Kant 100
J. G. Fichte 103
Friedrich Hegel 107
6 The Death of Being? Deconstruction and Difference 114
Friedrich Nietzsche 115
Gilles Deleuze 118
Jacques Derrida 122
Emmanuel Levinas 129
7 Being and Love: Towards a Christian Ontology of Difference 138
Reconstructions 139
Three theologians 146
John Milbank 146
Jean-Luc Marion 150
David Ford 153
Creatureliness and the unity of consciousness 157
A theological reduction of compassion 159
C Fundamental Theology 165
Introduction: Word and Silence 167
8 Fundamental Theology and Poetics 171
The form of poeticity 177
Towards a theological poetics 184
9 The Structure of Revelation as Communication 189
Speaking to and speaking with 192
Divine conversations 195
Old Testament 195
New Testament 199
10 The Phenomenology of Faith as Cognition 212
Faith as personal knowing 214
Universal world-centredness 217
Infinite kenosis 220
Tradition as presence in memory 221
D A Systematic Theology of Compassion 225
Introduction: Doctrine as Christian Knowledge 227
11 Compassion: Human and Divine 232
The concept of compassion 233
The compassion of God 240
Old Testament 240
New Testament 244
The compassion of his people 246
The image of God 249
12 Divine Pragmatics: Speech, Space and Power 254
Trinity 256
Triadic speech 262
Creation 266
Incarnation 269
13 The Christian Church: Truth as Transgression 274
Christian truth 276
The Marian church 279
The Petrine church 282
Mission 284
Conversation with other religions 285
Afterword: Towards a Eucharistic Cosmology 290
Select Bibliography 294
Notes 309
Index of Names 369
Index of Subjects 373
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