Transcendence and Self-Transcendence: On God and the Soul

Contents

Contents acknowledgments / vii list of abbreviations / ix Introduction: For Orientation / 1 PART 1. ONTO-THEOLOGY AND THE NEED TO TRANSCEND COSMOLOGICAL TRANSCENDENCE 1. Heidegger: How Not to Speak about God / 15 2. Spinoza: The Onto-theological Pantheism of Nature / 41 3. Hegel: The Onto-theological Pantheism of Spirit / 66 PART 2. EPISTEMIC TRANSCENDENCE: THE DIVINE MYSTERY 4. Augustine and Pseudo-Dionysius: Negative Theology as a Break with the Onto-theological Project / 93 5. Pseudo-Dionysius and Aquinas: How to Speak Nevertheless about God— The Analogy of Being / 115 6. Barth: How to Speak Nevertheless about God—The Analogy of Faith / 142 PART 3. ETHICAL AND RELIGIOUS TRANSCENDENCE: THE DIVINE IMPERATIVE 7. Levinas: Beyond Onto-theology to Love of Neighbor / 177 8. Kierkegaard: Beyond Onto-theology to Love of God / 201 Conclusion / 227 index / 233 ...