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Abraham Heschel and the phenomenon of piety /
"Piety is often regarded with a pejorative bias: a 'pious' person is thought to be overly religious. Yet historically the concept of piety has played an important role in Christian theology and practice. For Abraham Heschel, piety describes the contours of a life compatible with God&#...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2013.
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| Colección: | T & T Clark theology
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Piety is often regarded with a pejorative bias: a 'pious' person is thought to be overly religious. Yet historically the concept of piety has played an important role in Christian theology and practice. For Abraham Heschel, piety describes the contours of a life compatible with God's presence. While much has been made of Heschel's concept of pathos, relatively little attention has been given to the pivotal role of piety in his thought, with the result that the larger methodological implications of his work for both Jewish and Christian theology have been overlooked. Grounding Heschel's work in Husserl, Dilthey, Schiller and Heidegger, Britton explores his phenomenological method of 'penetrating the consciousness of the pious person in order to perceive the divine reality behind it.' He goes on to consider the significance of Heschel's methodology in view of the theocentric ethics of Gustafson and Hauerwas and the post-modern context reflected in the works of Levinas, Vattimo, Marion and the Radical Orthodoxy movement."--Bloomsbury Publishing. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781472551085 1472551087 9780567311962 0567311961 |