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Maurice Blondel on the supernatural in human action : sacrament and superstition /
How do sacraments differ from superstition? For Enlightenment philosophers such as Kant, both are merely natural actions claiming a supernatural effect, an accusation that has long been ignored in Catholic theology. In Maurice Blondel on the Supernatural in Human Action: Sacrament and Superstition ,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2017.
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| Colección: | Brill's studies in Catholic theology ;
v. 4. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 The Question
- 2 Methodology & Scope
- 3 Theological Significance
- 4 Structure
- Chapter 1
- The Enlightenment Critique of the Christian Religion: the 'Scandal' of Particularity & Superstition
- 1 Introduction
- 1.1 The 'Scandal' of Particularity in Christian Revelation and Praxis
- 2 The Thomist Resolution of the 'Scandal' of Christian Particularity
- 3 Calvin's Rejection of the 'Sacramental Principle'
- 4 Kant's Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason
- 4.1 The Reduction of Sacrament to Superstition
- 4.2 Kant's Dismissal of Tradition & Historical Revelation
- 4.3 The Incarnation: Christ as no More than Ideal Archetype
- 5 Conclusion
- Chapter 2
- Blondel's Rehabilitation of Particularity & Response to Kantian Formalism
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The "Problem of Action" Relative to Human Destiny
- 2.1 Practical Science & the Way of Practice
- 2.2 The Science of Practice
- 3 Acknowledging the Problem of Action
- 3.1 The Dilettante
- 3.2 The Rebuttal of Dilettantism
- 4 The Phenomenon of Action
- 4.1 The Phenomenon of Action: Perceptual Ambiguity & the Drive to Knowledge
- 4.2 The Heterogeneity & Interdependence of Mathematical & Experimental Sciences
- 4.3 Toward a Subjective Science of Action
- 4.4 The Elements of Consciousness
- 4.5 The Necessary Idea of Freedom in Deliberation
- 4.6 The Necessary Exercise of Freedom as Determination of Action
- 4.7 Freedom Necessitates Admission of Particular Duties
- 4.8 Intention is not Enough: The Necessity of Passing to Action
- 5 Conclusion
- Chapter 3
- From Self-Determination to Enlightenment Superstition
- 1 Introduction
- 2 From Intention to the First Exterior Expansion of Action
- 3 Intersubjectivity: From Individual to Social Action
- 3.1 Action and Signification
- 3.2 Co-action.
- 3.3 Co-operation and Influence
- 4 From Social to Superstitious Action
- Chapter 4
- The Supernatural as Hypothetical Necessity
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Relationship of Philosophy & Theology
- 3 The Necessary Being of Action
- 3.1 The 'Antiboly' in Human Action
- 3.2 The One Thing Necessary (±????±±9?l'Unique nécessaire?)
- 3.2.1 The First Step
- 3.2.2 The Second Step
- 3.2.3 The Third Step
- 3.2.4 The Fourth Step
- 3.3 The Alternative
- 3.3.1 Eternal Death in Action
- 3.3.2 The Life of Action in Sacrifice
- 4 Conclusion
- Chapter 5
- The Philosophical Exigencies of the Supernatural: Revelation, Mediator, Sacramental Practice
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Immanent Supernatural
- 3 The Role of Human Action
- 4 The Real Value of a "Literal Practice"
- 4.1 Faith and Works: the Vivifying and Liberating Letter of Practice
- 4.2 The Necessity of Positively Revealed Praxis
- 4.3 The Conditions of Authentic Religious Action
- 5 Conclusion
- Chapter 6
- Supernatural and Sacramental Realism: Divine Agency as Real
- 1 Introduction
- 2 How Not to do Things with Words: Sacraments are not Speech Acts
- 2.1 Sacraments Involve but do not Reduce to Speech Acts
- 2.2 The Alleged 'Rapprochement' of Word and Sacrament in Rahner
- 2.3 Critique of Rahner's Reduction of Sacrament to Word
- 3 'Symbolic' Sacramental Efficacy & the Phenomenon of Superstition
- 3.1 Occasionalism
- 3.2 Instrumental Causality in the Summa Theologiae
- 3.3 Karl Rahner's Version of Symbolic Sacramental Efficacy
- 3.3.1 Grace as Divine Self-communication (Selbstmitteilung)
- 3.3.2 The Metaphysics of 'Realsymbol'
- 3.3.3 Rahner's Application of 'Realsymbol' to Sacrament
- 3.3.4 'Realsymbol' is no more than 'Idealsymbol'
- 4 Conclusions
- Chapter 7
- Superstition in Sacramental Theology: Chauvet's 'Symbol and Sacrament'
- 1 Introduction.
- 2 The Foundations of Sacramental Theology
- 3 Extrinsicism in Symbol and Sacrament
- 3.1 An Idealist Approach to Human Language
- 3.2 The Symbolic Order & Symbolic Exchange
- 4 Signs, Symbols and Symbolic Efficacy
- 4.1 The Symbolic Efficacy of Rituals
- 4.2 'Symbolic Sacramental Efficacy'
- 4.3 Sacramental Formulae & Illocutionary Language
- 4.4 Divine Agency in Chauvet's 'Symbolic Efficacy'
- 5 Conclusions
- Chapter 8
- The Philosophy of Action: Tradition and Sacrament
- 1 Introduction
- 2 A Philosophy of Living Tradition
- 3 Real Action versus the 'Idea of Action' in Sacramental Theology
- 3.1 The Error of 'Conceptualism' in Sacramental Theology
- 3.1.1 The 'Matter' and 'Form' of the Sacrament of Penance
- 3.1.2 'Res et Sacramentum' & the Sacrament of Penance
- 4 The Error of 'Immanentism' in Sacramental Theology
- 4.1 Postmodern Sacramental Theology
- 5 Conclusion
- Conclusions
- 1 The Specific Difference of Sacramental Action
- 2 A Program for Further Research
- 2.1 The Intentions and Will of the Minister & Recipient
- 2.2 The Church as Mystical Body
- 2.3 The Sacramental Character & Sacramental Reviviscence
- 2.4 Sacramental & Sacrificial Action
- Bibliography
- Index.