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Desire, Faith, and the Darkness of God : Essays in Honor of Denys Turner /

In the face of religious and cultural diversity, some doubt whether Christian faith remains possible today. Critics claim that religion is irrational and violent, and the loudest defenders of Christianity are equally strident. In response, Desire, Faith, and the Darkness of God: Essays in Honor of D...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Newheiser, David (Editor ), Bugyis, Eric, 1980- (Editor ), Turner, Denys, 1942- (honouree.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The trials of desire
  • Immanence and transcendence. End without end: cosmology and infinity in Nicholas of Cusa ; The Darkness of God and the light of life: Augustine, Pseudo-Denys, and Eckhart ; Mysterious reasons: the rationality and ineffability of divine beauty ; Using reason to derive mutual illumination from diverse traditions
  • Disourse and authority. Assent to thinking ; Apian transformations and the paradoxes of women's authorial personae in late medieval England ; Academics and mystics: the case of Jean Gerson ; How wrong could Dante be? Authority and error in Paradiso Cantos 26-29
  • Marxism and negative theology. The turning of discourse: generous grammar or analogy in ecstasy ; "Love was his meaning": on learning from medieval texts ; Ideology and religion, yet again ; Is Marxism a theodicy? ; "If you do love, you'll certainly be killed": a conversation ; As we were saying: Marxism and Christianity revisited
  • Revelations of love. How to say "thank you": reflecting on the work of Primo Levi ; Sitit Sitiri: Apophatic Christologics of desire ; Our love and our knowledge of God ; Eckhart, Derrida, and the gift of love ; How to fail, or "The fine delight that fathers thought."