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- Analogies of Transcendence
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- 2016
- Published by: The Catholic University of America Press
summary
The problem of nature and grace lies at the heart of Christian theology. No dimension of divine revelation can be addressed without implicitly drawing reference to this issue.Analogies of Transcendence focuses on the central role that the analogies of being and faith play in developing a solution to the problem. These link God, as self-manifesting transcendence, to the human person as both fallen and justified, and to the material cosmos. Although the proposed solution draws on the work of Maréchal, de Lubac, Balthasar, and Rahner, it criticizes their approach for its underdeveloped analogies that diminish nature in grace's engagement with it. In redressing this weakness, Fr. Fields adapts its solution to the intellectual struggle of our time. This volume examines the origins and structure of modernity, which, it asserts, has not been superseded and is therefore critical of'‘postmodernism,' as well as of some ambiguous legacies of Thomism.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-vi
- Abbreviations
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. 1-6
- Part 1. Probing the Problem
- 1. Modern Estrangement
- pp. 9-39
- 2. Attempted Reunions
- pp. 40-73
- 3. Recent Wedding
- pp. 74-102
- Part 2. Developing a Model
- 4. Sacramental Causality
- pp. 105-146
- Part 3. Exploring Analogy
- 5. Aesthetics, Analogy, and God
- pp. 149-180
- 6. Novelty, Analogy. and God
- pp. 181-210
- 7. Religions, Analogy, and Christianity
- pp. 211-242
- Selected Bibliography
- pp. 271-284
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813228563
Related ISBN(s)
9780813228556
MARC Record
OCLC
953459216
Pages
320
Launched on MUSE
2016-07-21
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2016