Download or read book Metaphysics of Mystery written by Marijn de Jong and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we theologically reflect on universality in a world that increasingly focuses on particularities and differences? Marijn de Jong argues that the question of universality calls for a reconceptualized form of metaphysical theology, which he finds in the work of Karl Rahner and Edward Schillebeeckx. Casting a new light on these theologians, de Jong demonstrates that their methods contain a dialectical interrelation of hermeneutics and metaphysics – an interrelation which seemingly has been lost in more recent hermeneutical theology. Rahner and Schillebeeckx carefully balance particularity and universality without falling prey to relativist or absolutist ways of reasoning. By analyzing fundamental themes such as experience and interpretation, nature and grace, faith and reason, and intelligibility and mystery, de Jong reveals the modest theological metaphysics that lies at the heart of their methods. This critical retrieval demonstrates the enduring relevance of these thinkers and opens up new avenues of thought for theologians that do not want to shy away from the difficult question of the universality of God.
Download or read book Philosophical Mysteries written by Stephen David Ross and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1981-06-30 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is my major thesis. Mystery is inherent in both the nature of things and the nature of rationality. I will sustain this thesis by a review of some of the central issues of philosophy to elucidate their mysterious qualities. More important, however, I will develop in detail an explanation of mystery and trace some of its important ramifications." "I will argue that an ordinal metaphysics, with its associated theory of query, provides an account of mystery that no other theory can provide. "While the theory presented here is a theory of philosophical mystery, it has fundamental implications for all branches of knowledge, including the physical and social sciences. "In short, I speak against a simplistic view of the world and of experience based on a simplistic and narrow conception of understanding and rationality. Mystery calls not for veneration and awe, but for a full and complex activity of mind, broaching all established conditions in its pursuit of answers....Reason is fulfilled as completely in mysteries which persevere throughout our efforts to resolve them as in mysteries which are resolved and dissipated, passing into new questions to which we must find new answers, in an unterminating process of rational interrogation." — From the Preface by Stephen David Ross
Download or read book Metaphysics and Mystery written by Thomas Dean and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaphysics and Mystery: The Why Question East and West is a critical analysis, comparison, and evaluation of philosophical answers, Western and Asian, to the question “Why is there something rather than nothing?” The question, first posed by the seventeenth-century philosopher Leibniz, was reintroduced in the twentieth century by Heidegger. Volume 1 begins with an introduction that lays out the issues raised by the why question. It then analyzes contemporary Western philosophers who provide either cosmological-metaphysical or existential-ontological answers to the question. It also considers transitional answers that bridge the two. Volume 2 examines Asian philosophers, classical and contemporary, who, though rejecting the assumptions behind the question, put forward nondualist answers that have a direct bearing on it. It concludes with an argument for a revised understanding of the why question that draws on the strengths and weaknesses of these Western and Asian philosophies and explores implications for ethics and religious thought.
Download or read book A Metaphysics of the Christian Mystery written by Bruno Berard and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-24 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Christian mysteries may too easily seem a well traveled terrain. Yet, through the eyes of an inspired metaphysician, it proves to be still largely uncharted. Today we are fortunate that Jean Borella has charted this landscape through a series of books. His work, however, is not well known to Anglophone readers, which this book aims to remedy.
Download or read book Mystery of Metaphysics Existence written by Omar Lopez and published by . This book was released on 2022-08-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever asked yourself these questions; What is the meaning of life? Why does the universe exist? What is mind or consciousness? The author of "Mystery Of Metaphysics & Existence", combined many years of experience in the field of metaphysics, allowing him to present the information with clarity and insight. Just as science uses mathematics to describe physical reality, metaphysics uses language to explain reality beyond the physical.
Download or read book The Philosophy of Mystery written by Walter Cooper Dendy and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Metaphysics of Mystery written by Marijn De Jong and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study argues that contemporary theology needs a reconceptualised form of metaphysical theology to readdress this question of universality. In order to develop such a new metaphysical theology, de Jong turns to the work of Karl Rahner and Edward Schillebeeckx. Presenting a new perspective on their theological methods, he demonstrates that these theologians employ a dialectical interplay of hermeneutical and metaphysical arguments yielding a modest theological metaphysics. Crucially, these thinkers recognise that acknowledging hermeneutical conditions does not need to end in particularism. Instead, Rahner and Schillebeeckx argue that the infinite variety of particular human experiences can act as potential encounters with the universally self-revealing God. Retrieving these modest forms of theological metaphysics reminds contemporary theology that it is possible to think about universality from within particularity. Balancing the intelligible and mysterious nature of God, Rahner and Schillebeeckx show how a modest theological metaphysics contains its own self-critical hermeneutical disciplining. This renewed understanding about the earlier use of metaphysics opens up new avenues of thought for fundamental theologians that do not want to shy away from the difficult question of the universality of God"--
Download or read book Martin written by Gerald Gould and published by Gerald Gould. This book was released on 2022-12-16 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frankie is an investigator who is always in control until her life falls apart. Everything she thinks is real is tested. She investigates the death of a faith healer’s grandmother in a small Pacific Northwest town. Frankie learns that some who die, do not so easily depart. As the veil between the here and the hereafter becomes very thin, she questions everything, including her sanity. She must fight for her client against her own agency’s agenda and finds there is more to life and to death than she ever imagined. Martin is the first book in The Metaphysical Mystery Series, stories told in the tradition of Magical Realism where the fantastic emerge when least expected. Follow Frankie Dupree’s search for her missing reality and her knack to be in the wrong place at the perfect time. When this journey starts, Frankie is a hardnosed investigator who has respect for the rules, especially if they are hers. She has created a predictable world until she turns fifty and her rules no longer apply. She struggles to put her life together to discover the facade between her consciousness and the other side is not what she thought it to be. The more she learns, the less she knows. Her truth no longer works, but her answers are out there if she is brave enough for the journey.
Download or read book Metaphysics of Mystery written by Marijn de Jong and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we theologically reflect on universality in a world that increasingly focuses on particularities and differences? Marijn de Jong argues that the question of universality calls for a reconceptualized form of metaphysical theology, which he finds in the work of Karl Rahner and Edward Schillebeeckx. Casting a new light on these theologians, de Jong demonstrates that their methods contain a dialectical interrelation of hermeneutics and metaphysics – an interrelation which seemingly has been lost in more recent hermeneutical theology. Rahner and Schillebeeckx carefully balance particularity and universality without falling prey to relativist or absolutist ways of reasoning. By analyzing fundamental themes such as experience and interpretation, nature and grace, faith and reason, and intelligibility and mystery, de Jong reveals the modest theological metaphysics that lies at the heart of their methods. This critical retrieval demonstrates the enduring relevance of these thinkers and opens up new avenues of thought for theologians that do not want to shy away from the difficult question of the universality of God.
Download or read book The Mystery of Existence written by John Leslie and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling study of the origins of all that exists, including explanations of the entire material world, traces the responses of philosophers and scientists to the most elemental and haunting question of all: why is anything here—or anything anywhere? Why is there something rather than nothing? Why not nothing? It includes the thoughts of dozens of luminaries from Plato and Aristotle to Aquinas and Leibniz to modern thinkers such as physicists Stephen Hawking and Steven Weinberg, philosophers Robert Nozick and Derek Parfit, philosophers of religion Alvin Plantinga and Richard Swinburne, and the Dalai Lama. The first accessible volume to cover a wide range of possible reasons for the existence of all reality, from over 50 renowned thinkers, including Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Descartes, Leibniz, Hume, Bertrand Russell, Stephen Hawking, Steven Weinberg, Robert Nozick, Derek Parfit, Alvin Plantinga, Richard Swinburne, John Polkinghorne, Paul Davies, and the Dalai Lama Features insights by scientists, philosophers, and theologians Includes informative and helpful editorial introductions to each section Provides a wealth of suggestions for further reading and research Presents material that is both comprehensive and comprehensible
Download or read book The Philosophy of Mystery written by W. Cooper Dendy and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mystery of Being written by Gabriel Marcel and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Commentary on Gabriel Marcel s The Mystery of Being written by Thomas C. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcel was among the first to enunciate the distinction between intersubjective (I-thou) relations and subject to object (I-him/her) relations; the important difference between having and being and between problems and mysteries; the phenomena of the lived body and sensation; the concretely situated and dependent character of human existence as well as its supratemporal, transcendent dimension; the centrality of faith, hope, and love in human life, and our obscure and frequently unrecognized but, nevertheless, real experiences of an Absolute Thou and of our dead loved ones. However, Marcel's philosophical writings, including The Mystery of Being, although innovative and insightful, are often not easily understood by even his most sympathetic readers--frequently because his discussions of issues are unsystematic and sketchy and his reasons in support of the conclusions he arrives at are so briefly presented.
Download or read book Asking Mystery written by Michael Gelven and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we ask the great questions? What does it mean to ask so profoundly? What does it mean for us to ask at all? Michael Gelven confronts these questions as he explores humans as self-reflecting thinkers. He recognizes two central phenomena as fundamental: the recognition of our own possibility lying within our existence and the realization of our suspension between total ignorance and complete knowledge. Using concrete analyses, Gelven investigates the questions we ask that may seem initially unanswerable but are ultimately confronted through our own self-realization. Asking becomes fundamental when we shift from relying on projected schemes, such as clocks and calendars that enable answers to ordinary questions about time, to an ongoing, nonschematic reflection on our own existence. Not only are Platonic, Kantian, Nietzschean, and Heideggerian analyses considered, but so are David's psalms, Auden's poetry, and Shakespeare's plays. Gelven asserts that fundamental asking is essential to our being: we must ask greatly first, for the great explains the lesser; the small does not account for the large.
Download or read book Palmiro and Metaphysics written by Alain Sauret and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Metaphysics addresses what stands beyond what physical things are, which they depend on for their existence. Our study will promote the capacity to see. It is simple but not obvious. All people look around, but only a few can see. Metaphysics trains us to watch what fundamentally stands below the evidence of facts. Such ability to see requires an enlightenment that all true philosophers address and get sometimes under diverse perspectives: it will be our concern to investigate their suggestions and methods.
Download or read book Thomistic Metaphysics written by Charles A. Hart and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-15 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the major objectives of this book is to make Thomistic metaphysics – an inquiry into the act of existing, the act of to be, exercised by all beings to some degree – more understandable to the man of ordinary intellectual training. Therefore, the various problems of metaphysics and their solutions are presented in the simplest terms possible, with special emphasis on their significance for the contemporary mind.
Download or read book The Philosophy of Mystery written by Walter Cooper Dendy and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
